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Freegle it is

It is a sad day when yet another heard of group owners decides to break away from The Freecycle Network and create their own brand name.  Very sad.  I do of course wish them well, but they miss an opportunity, imo, a very serious opportunity.

Still Freegle it is.  This is not necessarily the best name in the world.  But that is what the IAFCmods a breaking away to.  They have a stub website available, and no doubt that will grow apace.

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September 12, 2009 - Posted by andyswarbs | freecycle | | 6 Comments

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  1. Anyone I’ve asked (who is not involved with the reusing/freecycling movement) reckons that freegle is a lot snappier that freecyle, so… let’s get freegling :)

    Comment by freeglefan | September 12, 2009 | Reply

  2. Even TFN is so impressed with the name Freegle that they’ve designed a whole new logo for Freecycle:

    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreegleUK/

    Need one say more?

    Comment by freeglefan | September 12, 2009 | Reply

  3. sounds like friggle

    Comment by Lyn | September 13, 2009 | Reply

  4. I was sent this earlier today, it looks like the wonderful new banner that you
    are all so exited about is not quite so nice after all.

    Quote:

    Dear David,

    Please forgive me for writing to your thus, Gill gave me your email address as a
    FreeGLE contact, (apparently she has been corresponding with you?)

    I am the “Official” owner of Farnborough FreeGLE, though I tend to leave all the
    work to Gill (who is now my “co-owner”), as she has heaps more experience at
    this sort of thing than I do.

    Gill tells me this morning that apparently there is a “conflict” with our
    Farnborough FreeGLE group, and a local Freecycle Group. Actually, no, there is
    not. There is no Farnborough Freecycle Group, but there is a Farnborough AND
    Aldershot Freecycle Group. (Allegedly, they called it thus in order to cover a
    wider area, rather than have town named Groups).

    My feeble attempts at trying to contact the Farnborough and Aldershot Freecycle
    Group Owners has fallen on deaf or apathetic ears, especially as I am not a
    member of that particular group (or any other Freecycle Group), nor would I wish
    to be a member, so in desperation, and a need for this town particularly not to
    be “left out in the cold” I started the Farnborough FreeGLE group, and asked
    Gill (and Annie, our Mod) to help me with it as my experience of overseeing
    these groups is somewhat limited.
    I fail to see why this would be a conflict of interests. (though for Gill maybe,
    aside from her acrimonious dealings with them many months ago).

    Farnborough and Aldershot Freecycle Group have, for too long, had the monopoly
    in this immediate area. And I have to say that whilst discussing amongst my
    peers, the way that particular Group is managed is detrimental to the concept of
    online recycling in this immediate area. One look at the queues (and speaking to
    the occupants of the vehicles) at out local refuse centre on a saturday
    afternoon is enough to tell one of that fact!

    Now, I understand that Our Gill is also a mod of another local online recycling
    Group, namely NorthEastHants recycle4free which she has requested become an
    affiliated member of FreeGLE UK.
    Gill arranged the opening of that group soon after her acrimonious departure
    from being one of the Owners of Farnborough and Aldershot Freecycle. I have to
    say that the way she was treated by the other owners of that particular group
    (and other locdal group owners) was in a word – shameful. She gave her all for
    that group, but I suspect that since she worked so hard on it a conspiracy was
    sought to remove her. It was enough that she was dealing with cancer at that
    time, but the childish behaviour of those involved in the “conspiracy” nearly
    drove her to a breakdown also. They managed to kill the passion she had for the
    concept of “freecycling” completely.
    It has taken me and others a very long time to re-kindle an inth of that passion
    in her, only for it to be knocked down again by the local and national FreeGLE
    organisation..

    If FreeGLE UK are intending to be a force to be reckoned with in the UK, they
    would do well to look to their own behaviour, before accusing others.

    Yours sincerely

    Robert

    Robert D Laing,
    Consultant Oncologist,
    The Cotswold Project
    also
    Co-Owner
    Farnborough FreeGLE

    Comment by Tim Beer | September 17, 2009 | Reply

  5. I have been a member of Leeds Freecycle.
    I saw a message saying it was now Freegle, no explanation, I assumed it was just an alternative name, then I saw on Yahoo Groups that Leeds Freegle is no longer a member of Freecycle groups……

    Well, I’ve never participated in the chatroom, I just thought it was a good way to recycle stuff, but I think it a bit strange that the group changes were without explanation.

    Comment by soubriquet | September 22, 2009 | Reply

    • Freecycle Leeds did put out several ADMIN messages about the move to Freegle. I’m sorry you missed them. For more information about the move see http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/green-living-blog/2009/sep/10/uk-freecycle-us-network or the history section on http://www.ilovefreegle.org

      It’s the same group run by local moderators just with a different name and no longer affiliated with TFN. We’re not the only ones to have left. So far 117 out of 509 groups have left representing over 40% of former Freecycle members in the UK so you can see the depth of feeling about this among UK mods.

      Ollie Clark

      Leeds Freegle Co-owner

      Comment by ollieclark | September 24, 2009 | Reply


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