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Free I.T. Athens will not open on Sunday, December 9th due to the weather advisory. Please stay safe and warm out there!

Years ago, Joel (all around FRITA superhero) wrote to the hosts of the Stuff You Should Know podcast. His letter was about ewaste and the work volunteers do at Free I.T. Athens, and it resulted in a really neat shout-out on the popular podcast based in Atlanta. Late last month Stuff You Know did an

Bad news: a few weeks ago the Free I.T. Athens trailer was stolen from behind The Office in the Homewood Hills Shopping Center. Volunteers have filed a police report. The trailer’s VIN is on record as stolen, but we haven’t had any updates since then. The trailer was purchased in 2011 and we used it

I’m so pleased to share that Free I.T. Athens and fellow community tech nonprofits will be speaking at this year’s Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) conference! Hope is an incredible event held every two years in NYC with an engaging list of speakers, fascinating hackerspaces, and lots and lots of mate. Even though the event is

For as long as I’ve volunteered at Free I.T. Athens, all computers in the store came with GNU/Linux, 4GB of memory, and at least 160GB of storage space. I’m sorry to say that as of last week Free I.T. Athens’ new minimum for desktop storage is 80GB. Why did we make this change? It’s all

Free I.T. Athens will be closed on Sunday 5/13/18 so we can spend time with the people we love. Saturday hours (5/12), Tuesday New Volunteer Orientation (5/15), and Wednesday (5/16) hours will continue as normal.