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2013 Internship Campaign is Live!

Monday, May 13th, 2013

FreeGeek Chicago is again fundraising to support our super-awesome Summer Internship Program. This is our third-annual, paid summer internship which will help expand our services to the community and our earned revenue sources. Learn more and Donate on our Indiegogo Campaign Page.

Application for 2013 Summer Internship Available

Friday, May 3rd, 2013

FreeGeek Chicago is happy to announce that we are now accepting applications for our paid summer internship program. You can grab an application or you can visit our summer internship page.

Projects will focus on expanding earned revenue sources and services to the community. In exchange, FreeGeek will provide an opportunity to someone who is looking to use and expand their technology / communications / recycling skill-set and get some serious experience with a community-run non-profit organization. We plan on having this internship run from mid-June through mid-September with an average commitment of 12 hours per week. Applications for this position are due Friday, May 31st. Interviews will be given on a rolling basis.

Constitution 2.0 Adopted

Monday, April 15th, 2013

Good news everybody! The FreeGeek Community unanimously adopted a new Constitution on Sunday evening, finalizing the community's transition to a new governance model. This new Constitution puts full control of the decision-making process in the hands of the volunteer community at FreeGeek and outlines a Staff Collective for providing support services.

One goal in rewriting the FreeGeek Constitution is to provide a flexible document that any other community group might be able to pick-up, tweak, and reuse without too much effort. As such, this document is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Please adopt and share!

The FreeGeek Constitution is available online as a GoogleDoc.

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