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Free Geek Seattle: Helping Seattle's Needy Get Nerdy

Welcome to Free Geek Seattle's mediawiki page. This is our knowledge base and used to store documents, images, procedures and such.

If you're new here, please visit our home Page: https://www.freegeekseattle.org

What we do

Recycling, reusing, repurposing electronic equipment and computer hardware
Support and education in Free software
Helping with construction and maintenance of local Neighborhood Networks

Free Geek Seattle is currently re-organizing.

As of August 2025 we are in the process of "rebooting", after a hiatus of 8 years.

Meetings

No meetings are currently planned. Jump on the mailing list and organize a meet up if you are so inclined!

Past meetings and other events may be found on the Event Schedule

We used to meet on the second Monday of each month at Third Place Commons.

Prior to that we met at various Seattle public libraries (Greenwood and Broadview mostly).

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