[freegeek-startup] BC update #1..or is it 2..

[Kent Tenney]

>As we are still just very new, nothing concrete has happened beyond
picking a Board and setting out some goals.

According to my experience, that's pretty good for a first meeting.

Exciting stuff, thanks for the narrative.

Kent

On 11/2/06, David Repa <iamturnip at gmail.com> wrote:
> John,
>
> On 11/2/06, John Sechrest <sechrest at corvallisedp.com> wrote:
> > Perhaps you can go into more detail of what you are doing to
> > set things up.  What mail lists / wiki/web sites you are setting up.
> > Where you are meeting. What kinds of invites you are sending out.
> > ... Stuff like that.
>
> Oddly this whole thing has started to snowball from emailing one
> person.  There hasn't been much need to send out invitations.  There
> was an article written(before I even knew of freegeek) in a local
> bicycle magazine called Momentum and that, and rev phils message under
> it on-line helped get people emailing.
>
> >From there a person in our group started a mailing list, and the rest
> is history!  At present we have no website but it is under discussion,
> as it will be needed of course.
>
> Our first meeting place is a bit of a story actually.  We originally
> decided to meet at a nice quiet local bar at 7pm.  Upon my arrival at
> 6:30 I found out the place was closed till 8 for inventory.  So I put
> a sign up directing people to the very "divey" bar next door.  I was
> concerned at first because the bar we wanted to be in is known for its
> indoor bike parking.  However the folks next door were nice enough to
> let us bring in our bikes.   It was an odd place for a first meet and
> greet, but we pulled off the first hour of our meeting there and
> raised a glass of cheap swill to freegeek vancouver.  At 8 we moved
> next door and we talked till about midnight.  Since we have no space
> yet, meetings will be back at the bar or maybe another venue, we have
> not talked about it yet.  The next meeting is Nov 27, I'll let you
> know if the meeting space changed.
>
>
> As we are still just very new, nothing concrete has happened beyond
> picking a Board and setting out some goals.  Money!  Space!
>
> I will hopefully have more to tell of in the near future.
>
> --
> David
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