We are excited to announce the first ever DLN Gives Back charity drive and for this we are partnering with Free Geek!
When we first launched the Destination Linux Network, we announced that we wanted to partner with our growing community to find ways we could give back. So we put up a post here on the forum and asked you, the community, to provide us feedback on the charities you would like for us to work with. Free Geek was highly recommended by many of you and we’re so excited to partner with them and launch our first giving back campaign.
Free Geek’s mission is to sustainably reuse technology and enable digital access and education to the community. The best part is they have many ways for everyone to get involved.
To kick off the partnership we asked Hilary Shohoney from Free Geek to join us on Episode 151 of DLfor an interview to discuss Free Geek to introduce it to people who hadn’t heard of it before. Hilary is Free Geek’s Manager of Development and manages the relationships between Free Geek and the local community working on issues like the digital divide.
Do you have any partners in the UK? I have quite a few SFF PC’s, Printers, switches etc that currently gathering dust. I would love to see them recycled or given away to someone who needs them.
Free Geek addresses the biggest issues in our technical world: education, access, and waste. I am glad to see the DLN community support this charity and I am thankful for DLN to bringing this to my attention. Maybe we can follow this up with a community supported and possibly crafted legislation that we can push in our states and eventually on a national level (in regards to the United States as for other areas, I am not sure what the process would be).
