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Free Geek Seattle is a growing non-profit organization modeled after the original Free Geek of Portland, Oregon. Our focus is free and open source software advocacy, technology education and sustainable computing. This wiki will be undergoing a major update over the next few weeks. It may not look pretty in the meantime. Note to page editors/coordinators on new organization of wiki... some of the bulleted items under each heading on this page may be redundant with the main pages for each "department", which you can get to by clicking the headings. List items on the front page that you want general visitors to our page to see immediately. The listed items may have more details on your department page, and links to their particular pages both here and there. Would like to have separate responsibilities clearly delineated and organized. Would also like to see every single page on the wiki accessible through a tree structure that's as shallow as possible, with this front page being the root. No orphan pages that aren't linked from anywhere, or separate pages for things that would be best just listed on one longer page with other like topics. What We Do Refurbish donated computer hardware, and install free open source software for distribution to the community. Provide education about basic PC hardware, the Linux operating system, and any other technologies that we're working on or have expertise in. Recycle anything we can't fix or use an environmentally-responsible manner. Donations We are currently accepting donations via the Filipino Community Center of Seattle. We are always looking for more sources of donations and have a lot of ideas kicking around on that front. Elcaset is in charge of donations. We are saving CPU's from teardowns, as there is a particular company that we'd like to send them to for $$$. Elcaset, please post instructions for that here. WISHLIST! Particular things we really need, list it on the front page here: Server rack and mounting hardware for our servers. Workbenches with overhead shelves Volunteers Info about volunteering or make a donation to Free Geek Seattle. Attend one of our regular next meeting or workshop is happening. Join the FGSEA Google group (mailing list) For real-time communication sign on to IRC channel #freegeek-sea on irc.freenode.org (Freenode IRC network) Positions we'd like to fill Current Events Regular Saturday Workshops (Volunteer Lead sign-up). Note: dates with positions unfilled may have no lead volunteers present. Monthly meetings 2nd Monday of every month. Time: 7:30pm - 9pm. Location: Town Center at Lake Forest Park food court (Upper level across from Third Place Books), 17171 Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park, WA 98155. Help us promote Free Geek Seattle. Education Friday STE(A)M Classes Volunteer sign-up Training - Let's learn to geek FreekiWiki We are closely partnered with the Filipino Community Center of Seattle to provide computer education through their STE(A)M program, and by cross-participation in our weekend workshops/build program and classes. Infrastructure and Operations Administration and Finance We are in the process of obtaining full [[501c3_Status|501(c)3 status]. We are seeking grants. Contact Tom Heuser for specifics. Other Activities and Projects Miscellaneous stuff that can't seem to be categorized anywhere goes here. We love Seattle Meshnet. Have proposed a collaborative project with Seattle Meshnet. Keywords: volunteer‎ community technology center ethics ethical software freedom ‎reuse‎‎ ‎‎recycle‎‎ ‎‎refurbish‎‎ ‎‎computers‎‎ ‎‎hardware‎ ‎open-source‎‎ ‎‎Libre GNU linux‎‎ GNU/Linux FLOSS ‎‎foss‎‎ ‎‎f/oss‎‎ ‎‎education‎‎ ‎‎training‎ ‎seattle‎ ‎puget sound‎ ‎gslug non-profit stem‎ networks