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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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-'''Free Geek Seattle''' is a volunteer non-profit group focused on sustainable computing. Founded in 2009, we model ourselves after the original Free Geek in Portland Oregon.
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-Here is what we do, in a nutshell...
+=Free Geek Seattle: Helping Seattle's Needy Get Nerdy=
-* Refurbish computers to distribute back into the community.
-* Recycle unusable computer gear in an environmentally responsible manner.
-* Training & support in recycling, refurbishing and how to use computers and the Internet.
-* Find out [[Free Geek Seattle:About|more about FGSEA]]
+Welcome to Free Geek Seattle's mediawiki page. This is our knowledge
+base and used to store documents, images, procedures and such.
-== Getting Started ==
+If you're new here, please visit our home Page: https://www.freegeekseattle.org
-To get you started here are some links to select information resources.
-* Find out when and where our [[Free_Geek_Seattle:Current events|next meeting or workshop]] is happening.
+== What we do==
-* Learn how to [[volunteer]] with Free Geek Seattle or [[Donate|make a donation]].
+* Recycling, reusing, repurposing electronic equipment and computer hardware
-* Join the [http://groups.google.com/group/freegeek-seattle/ FGSEA Google group] (mailing list)
+* Support and education in [[Free]] software
-* For real-time communication sign on to IRC channel #freegeek-sea on irc.freenode.org (Freenode IRC network)
+* Helping with construction and maintenance of local [[Neighborhood Networks]]
-* Read about our current [[positions]] - opportunity knocks!
-* [[Training]] - Let's learn to geek
-* [[Projects]] are what we're working on now
-* [[Positions]] we'd like to fill
-* [http://www.freegeek.org/ Free Geek Portland]
-* [http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/Main_Page FreekiWiki]
+==Free Geek Seattle is currently re-organizing.==
+As of August 2025 we are in the process of "rebooting", after a hiatus of
+years.
-<small>Keywords: volunteer‎ ‎reuse‎‎ ‎‎recycle‎‎ ‎‎refurbish‎‎ ‎‎computers‎‎ ‎‎hardware‎ ‎open-source‎‎ ‎‎linux‎‎ ‎‎foss‎‎ ‎‎f/oss‎‎ ‎‎education‎‎ ‎‎training‎ ‎seattle‎ ‎puget sound‎ ‎gslug‎</small>
+==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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