Freegeek Robbed Saturday Night

This hits close to home and really pisses me off. My sister Ariel used to be a grant writer for Freegeek and there is no end to the amount of good they do in the area.

Free Geek, Portland’s groovy technology non-profit, sustained its most major break in to-date earlier this week. The majority of the items stolen were laptops, a few hard drives, and LCD screens. While their laptop program is becoming a major source of income for them, it also is a great source of needed hardware for local non-profits. This income is now gone, and local do-gooders will have to go without their free source of laptops for a few months.

So they’re making a call out to the community to help stop these thieves and prevent this from happening again. If you’re offered a laptop with Ubuntu Linux installed on it in the next couple months, give Freegeek a call at (503) 232-9350.

Used LCD screens, while harder to pin down as originating at Free Geek, might raise an eyebrow as well.

For more info write: info@freegeek.org