I’d like to add to the agenda: a woman named Elizabeth who works at the EEFC proposed a mutual aid program between Free Ride and EEFC. Obviously we eat EEFC’s food. So her idea was that, as a way of “giving back,” we should consider doing like 30-minute once or twice a week free service workshops at EEFC… for little stuff that people need that they might not go to Free Ride for, like changing flats, pumping up tires, making other very minor adjustments.
I personally like the idea of exporting Free Ride’s abilities outside of the Free Ride building—into schools, and public places potentially—because it will help raise awareness about Free Ride. It’s a way for us to educate more people than we could normally reach about uber-basic bike mechanics, plus it’ll make Free Ride look really like a community project. Elizabeth’s proposition is an intriguing one but we’d have to discuss the implications/payment/staffing issues. This will be addressed by the… programming committee right? I don’t know Elizabeth, she just told me this last time I went to pick up food for FR. She said she knows Erok.
