Final Application for Ongoing Status as a Free Geek

This is a page concerning a policy or procedure in development.
Once fleshed out, we'll consider it for adoption as official policy at Free Geek.

Background Research and Development Plan

• Have you made contact with local recycling partners?
• What facilities will you likely be using for disposal of e-waste?
  • Have you researched their recycling practices?
    • Do they send e-waste overseas? Where?
    • Do they use prison labor?
    • What do they process that ends up in a landfill?
• Do you know how much it will cost you to recycle:
  • Batteries?
  • Monitors?
• Do you know how much you are likely to make off of
  • Processors?
  • Circuit boards?
• Have you made contacts with other community organizations...
  • that work with free or open source software?
  • that work with communities of people who lack technology or technical skills?
• Volunteer recruitment
  • Do you already have volunteers that are willing to work on a weekly basis?
    • How many volunteers?
    • How many hours per week?
  • How do you plan to recruit more volunteers?
• Start up funding
  • How much startup funding do you already have?
  • How much will rent for your initial space likely cost?
  • How do you plan to raise more startup funds?

Infrastructure

• Your own infrastructure:
  • Do you need hardware to help you get started?
    • If so, do you know how to apply for a grant from the mothership?
  • Do you understand what software the other Free Geeks are using for infrastructure? (Free Geek in Portland has a Software Overview page.)

New Questions

• Who signed (or will sign) the following documents (if you have or are applying for them)?
  • lease for space
  • articles of incorporation
  • bank account
  • bylaws
  • loan
  • foundation grant application
• Describe your role in the organization.
• Who is (or will be) answering questions from the general public?
• Describe how your decision making process will change as you grow?
• How many people do you anticipate will be on your paid staff?
• Which will you be using to make decisions, formal consensus or majority rule or some other process?
  • Why?
• How do you determine who will be in your main decision making group?
• Do you have experienced meeting facilitators working with your group? If not, how will you recruit them?
• What is your mission statement?
• How do you encourage volunteer participation?