One neat perk is that they're super excited about supporting bitcoin. It doesn't really talk too much about it on their website, but they were at the bitcoin conference this year.
No, you don't have to live there. As part of the account creation process, you donate a small amount of money ($5, iirc) to one of their local partners, and that satisfies the "participates in associations" aspect of the rule.
EDIT: See "Persons participating in programs to alleviate poverty or distress that are located in the approved area" on the members page
if there's something you want torrentized that's not, feel free to post here too and I can poke it.
edit: assuming it's in one of the collections we're currently testing on. (all the opensource_* ones) (etree and netlabels _should_ be all torrentized [we hope])
Also, anyone can fucking donate to whoever they want. Notice in the "name" column it says "Brendan Elch", not "Mozilla, Inc." What he does with his money is his business.