About FreeGeek Chicago

 FreeGeek Chicago is a not-for-profit community organization that recycles used computers and parts to provide functional computers, education, internet access and job skills training to the underserved communities of Chicago in exchange for community service.

What is the Codex?

FreeGeek Chicago strives to be transparently governed. This website is our knowledge base and coordination tool, a codex of all that we know. If you wish to have edit access, or become more involved in this site, please come volunteer at FreeGeek.

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Announcements

Wiki is back up

Between work and a couple of mystery bugs, I struggled to get the wiki back up and running. We're back up now! You can now attach files to wiki pages and tickets properly, and Trac now supports a "side-by-side" editing mode. And major improvements to the theme are in ...

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• Posted: 2010-05-16 09:08 (Updated: 2010-05-16 09:49)
• Author: David Eads
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Improvements to the planning tool

We are just about ready to ditch Basecamp completely, and thanks to Dave, Taylor, Scott, Malcolm, and everyone else who has futzed around with this site, we've actually got some content in place and I have been able to see the implications of my initial work on this in ...

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• Posted: 2009-08-28 11:31
• Author: David Eads
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About the FreeGeek Chicago announcements blog

Welcome to the FreeGeek Chicago announcements blog. This blog is for short, pithy announcements about internal and operational matters (such as the status of our network). Important public information (such as schedule changes and special events) can be found on our we ...

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• Posted: 2009-08-05 15:39 (Updated: 2010-05-16 09:58)
• Author: David Eads
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Knowledge Base

Index of all knowledge base articles

The FreeGeek knowledge base is a work in progress.

• Technical documentation
  • FreakBox care and feeding?
• Internal documentation
  • Component identification
  • Hardware testing
  • Orientation script - An outline to use when working with volunteers.
  • Classes
  • Projects
    • fgcsync Drush extension
  • Network topology
• Education
  • Education/OpenCourseWare - OpenCourseWare?
  • Education/Curriculum? - Class Topics of Discussion
  • Education/Curriculum/WebBasics? - Fundamentals and Concepts of Web Development
  • Education/Curriculum/CareAndFeeding? - Xubuntu Linux Administration for New Users
  • Education/ComputerBasicsReferralList - List of other organizations that run basics classes for cheap or free
• Fund-raising
  • Advertising
  • Web Directory and Website Submissions
  • 2010 appeal letter
  • Potential donors page?
  • Donor letter template
  • Other businesses selling used/refurbished parts
  • Other refurbishers and recyclers
• FreeGeek organizational information
  • Contact information for FreeGeek/Chicago
  • Policies?
  • Code of conduct - How we expect volunteers and staff to behave.
  • Organizational information? - Public information like our federal employee identification number (FEIN).
  • Governance structure: Eads' proposal - A proposal by Eads for rejuvenating FreeGeeks's governance.
  • Governance structure: Final draft - The working draft of the FreeGeek? consitution, adapted from Eads' proposal.
  • Recycling information - Information about our recycling process
  • Active staff
  • Active super volunteers?
  • Build day notes
  • Meeting Minutes
  • Staff Meeting Minutes
  • FreeGeek operations
    • Equipment price list
    • Spending priority list
    • How to use our recyclers - Addresses, driving directions, instructions, etc.
    • Procurement
    • Strategy
    • Strategic partnerships and resources?
    • New Space Planning
• Community?
  • Statement on fundraising: By David and Taylor, August 2010