User:Matteo/scratch.intergalactic

Want to Start a Free Geek?

Get To Know Us

• Join startup
  • Introduce yourself
• Read the wiki
• Hang out on irc
• Visit a Free Geek!
  • This sure can fast-track your application
  • We might be able to visit them too.

Make a Franchise Application

• Application is sent to franchise@ where all the other Free Geeks will evaluate it.
• Should the application form suggest a second contact in addition to the primary applicant?

Communication

Initial Communication

• Application is sent to franchise@
• Automatic receipt mailed to applicant

Steward Communication

• Someone volunteers to steward the application
  • How will stewards self-select?
  • Should we have an application workgroup for this, styled after a hardware grant workgroup? It would use the franchise@ list so everyone could see it, but maybe each franchise would have a self-selected representative or two?
  • But seriously, how will stewards self-select?
• Steward emails applicant, says their application is being processed, gives them a timeline
  • Should we have a "within 3 months" timeline for processing? That will probably give enough time to process thorny applications.
  • Should this email take place within 10 days of the initial application? This should be enough time for a steward to self-select.
• Steward contacts applicant/s with follow-up phone call.
  • "Did you get our email?"
  • "Do you have any questions?"
  • The steward should encourage the applicant/s to invite their compadres to Get To Know Us
• Steward reports all communication back to

IRC

• What about a monthly IRC meeting for franchises (or franchise representatives in the application workgroup)
• This will help us stay on top of applications

Wo! We are a Free Geek and have no time

• licens agrement - # of years?
• documentation to cull
  • Irs 990
  • Statistics - i.e. recycling, computers given out, volunteer hours
  • project goals - i.e. Moving/Expanding