Free Geek will be a celebrity judge at Tops and Bottoms - the Improv Show! Come cheer, laugh, heckle affectionately. Part of the proceeds will go to the Geek!

Free Geek will have a booth at Surrey's Nature Matters SummerFest.

Saturday, July 14th, 2007
11am - 3pm

Location: Bear Creek Park (King George Hwy. & 88th Ave), City of Surrey

Bikes Online: Meeting & Brainstorm

Wednesday, July 18 6:30-8ish

Free Geek Community Technology Centre

Come join Free Geek again at the second Commercial Drive Car Free Festival of the year!

We'll be geeking out in Grandview Park (Commerical Drive and Charles). There will be info about e-waste, our volunteer and education programs, and Linux.

DIRTY SECRETS: THE TOXIC E-WASTE TRADE

Free Geek presents an evening of documentaries, discussion and d'accordion music!

Thursday August 2nd

Doors 7:00pm, show 7:30.

Admission FREE/BY DONATION. First come first serve.

We will screen BAN's pivotal documentaries The Digital Dump: Exporting Re-Use and Abuse to Africa and Exporting Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of Asia.

Sarah Westervelt, from international watchdog organisation the Basel Action Network (BAN), will speak on the illicit trade in computer waste here & abroad. Audience discussion to follow.

The Creaking Planks will recycle and repurpose salvageable components of defunct and formerly toxic popular musics.

More info: ban.org or phone Free Geek at 604-879-4335. Click HERE to view a trailer for the Digital Dump.

"Most citizens, governments and businesses have blinders on concerning sham reuse and recycling of their e-waste. 'The Digital Dump' rips those blinders away. Save your breath. Show the film. Then talk. You will have instant allies asking honest questions. That's how change happens." -- Mr. Sego Jackson, Principal Planner of Snohomish County, Washington State, Solid Waste Management Division and NEPSI (National Electronics Product Stewardship Initiative) stakeholder.

This event is sponsored by the Recycling Council of British Columbia and we of Free Geek.

Open burning of plastic encased metal printer and motor parts. Open burning of plastics and other material is common in order to reduce the waste to metals. Guiyu, China. December 2001. © Basel Action Network

Vancouver PHP Users Group Summer Beginners Workshops are being held at Free Geek's computer lab.

August 9th: More PHP - starting 6:30pm

• practice on the terminals
• review of topics
• php packages install, e.g. drupal
• to be determined

Audrey, who is one of organisers of the event has this to say -

"The purpose of this workshop is to introduce beginners to PHP and associated technologies. There is no charge, and these workshops are intended to be an introduction to further study, either through the web, or college/university courses.

I would personally like to invite any women who are interested to attend."

Please note: We had a full house for workshop #1; preregistration is a good idea!

A tentative schedule, outline, and registration link is HERE.