The AAFE Community Center Opening
On January 16, 2004, members of the Community Free Software Group were invited to attend the opening of the new Asian Americans for Equality Community Center. Located at 111 Norfolk Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side, the facility is a residence for low-income families, a public meeting place, and a technology education center with broadband Internet access for AAFE's clientele.
Attending the ceremony were AAFE Directors and supporters, members of the community, representatives of the Grand Street Settlement Foundation, and City Councilman Alan Gerson. Presiding over the ribbon-cutting ceremony was New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.
CFSG members were honored to attend, and we look forward to offering many helpful and informative workshops at the facility. Below are photographs from the event.
AAFE Director Chris Kui with Alan Gerson and Sheldon Silver.
Dave Williams and Sheldon Silver with the dedication plaque.
Elizabeth Wilson, AAFE Community Technology Center Coordinator, with Stephen Lynch.
Tony Lin, AAFE CTC Coordinator, with Stephen Lynch.
With Free Software one creates more technically qualified employment and a framework of free competence where success is only tied to the ability to offer good technical support and quality of service — one stimulates the market, and one increases the shared fund of knowledge, opening up alternatives to generate services of greater total value and a higher quality level, to the benefit of all involved: Producers, service organizations, and consumers.