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Free Geek Seattle is a growing non-profit organization modeled after the original Free Geek of Portland, Oregon. We are focused on promoting free and open source software advocacy, technology education and sustainable computing.

What We Do

Refurbish donated computer hardware, and install Free Software to distribute back into the community through our Volunteer and Grant programs.
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.

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.
Friday STE(A)M Classes Volunteer sign-up

Getting Started

To get you started here are some links to select information resources.

How to get a free computer
Volunteer, promote or make a donation to Free Geek Seattle.
Find out when and where our 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)
Training - Let's learn to geek

Projects

Projects are what we're working on now.

This wiki needs some serious work. You can help by logging-in and editing the wiki yourself, or by proposing changes on our mailing list, or send recommendations to our Technical infrastructure manager.

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 == What We Do ==
-* Refurbish donated computers using [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Free_Software Free Software] to distribute back into the community through our [[Volunteer]] and [[Grant]] programs.
+* Refurbish donated computer hardware, and install [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Free_Software Free Software] to distribute back into the community through our [[Volunteer]] and [[Grant]] programs.
 * 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.