Talk:Media contact list
Ideas include seeking out media grunts and interns and other easily-accessible people, to get a feel for how a media outlet operates and who we should contact and how. Xen suggests pursuing science, tech, and environmental beat reporters. In many cases these guidelines will be moot, as we will go with existing connections.
I'd also like to see a brief summary of past major coverage or contacts, where applicable, or notes on why Media Outlet X should be interested in us. There is a list of past media coverage of Free Geek on the main site. Updated through January; Oso, Pete, Christen will work to get it up-to-date. (See "discussion" page for ongoing work on this...)
Great work Christen!!
I have put in a few contacts, and will continue to help refine this.
(--Pete 19:05, 1 Dec 2005 (PST))
Pete, I'm starting to think you're not quite the halfass you make yourself out to be.
Sshhhh, don't blow my cover.
Here are the 6 stories that come up on a search for "Free Geek" at the Portland Tribune web site. (Gotta search the archives for the last one.) I think the only two worth putting on our media page are the last two, which are in bold.
Fri, Jul 15, 2005 , Adventure! (just a blurb about Geek Fair among other event listings)
(by Suzie Ridgway, freelance writer, friend of Pete and Phil) COMMUNITY STREET PARTY Geek Fair Five! Celebrate Free Geek’s fifth year operating the Community Technology Center at an all-ages community street party, complete with live music, organic refreshments and activities for the whole family. Highlights include the “Beat the Geek” game show, Smash-tacular! (where you can go “Office Space” on an actual printer of your choice), a video gaming room, indie video screenings and displays of welded, modified bikes, known as chunk bikes. A silent auction will feature items donated from local businesses, and a raffle offers a Linux computer as the grand prize. The Free Geek Thrift Store will be open for business, filled with bargains for the computer hobbyist. 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. SATURDAY, July 16, Free Geek, 1731 S.E. 10th Ave., 503-232-9350, free, www.freegeek.org
Tue, Jul 5, 2005 , Neighborhood News (also just a Geek Fair blurb, by Jim Redden) Geek Fair offers data and other fun things
No Roman numerals for the folks at Free Geek, a Portland nonprofit group that offers computing skills and services for low and no cost, whose fifth annual community street fair, Geek Fair Five, is July 16. From 1 p.m. to 7 p.m., the geeks at 1731 S.E. 10th Ave. will offer two stages of live music, a game show, food, information booths, independent video screenings and a silent auction. For information, visit www.freegeek.org/geekfair/index.html.
Fri, Sep 17, 2004 , Crossroads (more mere blurbitudes)
Geek Fair, sponsored by Free Geek and others, street fair and fund-raiser for computer reuse and recycling nonprofit Free Geek, 2 p.m., outside Community Technology Center, 1731 S.E. 10th Ave., raffle and auction will raise money to buy new battery for forklift. Call 503-232-9350.
Fri, Sep 12, 2003 , Several groups give scraps a second chance (by Becky Brun, don't know her)
• Free Geek Free Geek accepts computers and computer-related hardware, in any condition. Donated equipment is refurbished by volunteers who work in exchange for a computer of their own. The group also runs a thrift store for the public. If equipment is known to be broken or is older than a Pentium I PC or PPC Mac, a small donation is required to cover recycling fees. There is a $10 disposal fee per monitor. How to donate: Drop off all small donations; pickups can be arranged for larger, newer donations.
Fri, Sep 12, 2003 , Portland firms shape up when they ship out [1] (a "real article" by Becky Brun, FG is mentioned at the end with a quote from Oso.) Fri, May 4, 2001 , Free software, older computers help group narrow digital divide (it IS on the list, but the link is outdated. Please update, I have a personal stake in this one ;) http://portlandtribune.com/archold.cgi?id=3485
WILLY WEEK
5/19/2004 rogue of the week story mentions FG and Richard S
http://www.wweek.com/story.php?story=5092
NY Times, July 05, users toss PCs due to spyware
posted to council list by aaron burt, 7/19/05
I found this really disturbing. When their Winders PCs get all gunked up with viruses, spyware and trojans, folks are just replacing them:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/17/technology/17spy.html
On a recent Sunday morning when Lew Tucker's Dell desktop computer was overrun by spyware and adware - stealth software that delivers intrusive advertising messages and even gathers data from the user's machine - he did not simply get rid of the offending programs. He threw out the whole computer.
OTOH, I hope some of those infected PCs are sent our way to be cleaned up. I should send a letter to the editor.
BTW, FreeGeek does some promotion, right? Free print ads when they'll give 'em, community calendar and volunteer-opportunity listings, etc.?