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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 [http://www.freegeek.org/ Free Geek] in Portland Oregon.
+=Free Geek Seattle: Helping Seattle's Needy Get Nerdy=
-Here is what we do, in a nutshell...
+Welcome to Free Geek Seattle's mediawiki page. This is our knowledge
-* Refurbish viable computers using [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Free_software Free software] to distribute back into the community through our [[Volunteer]] and [[Grant]] program.
+base and used to store documents, images, procedures and such.
-* [[Recycle]] computer gear deemed non-viable in an environmentally-responsible manner.
-* [[Training]] how to work or play with computers (hardware/software) and the Internet.
-* Find out [[Free Geek Seattle:About|more about FGSEA]]
-== Activities Links ==
+If you're new here, please visit our home Page: https://www.freegeekseattle.org
-* Saturday FCS Workshop [[Volunteer sign-up]]
-== Getting Started ==
+== What we do==
-To get you started here are some links to select information resources.
+* Recycling, reusing, repurposing electronic equipment and computer hardware
-* How to get a free [[Freekbox| computer]]
+* Support and education in [[Free]] software
-* [[Volunteer]], [[Promotion|promote]] or [[Donate|make a donation]] to Free Geek Seattle.
+* Helping with construction and maintenance of local [[Neighborhood Networks]]
-* Find out when and where our [[Free_Geek_Seattle:Current events|next meeting or workshop]] is happening.
-* Join the [http://groups.google.com/group/freegeek-seattle/ FGSEA Google group] (mailing list)
-* For real-time communication sign on to [[mw:IRC|IRC]] channel #freegeek-sea on irc.freenode.org (Freenode IRC network)
-* [[Training]] - Let's learn to geek
-* [[Projects]] are what we're working on now
-* [[Positions]] we'd like to fill
-* [https://atrium.schoolfactory.org/fgsea/ Our SchoolFactory Atrium page]
-* [http://www.freegeek.org/ Free Geek Portland]
-* [http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/Main_Page FreekiWiki]
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+==Free Geek Seattle is currently re-organizing.==
+As of August 2025 we are in the process of "rebooting", after a hiatus of
+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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