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The Geeks for Social Change Manifesto v1.0

GFSC's goal is “help people use technology to do community stuff”. Today we're launching our manifesto for building this real world impact: shared infrastructure over products, capability over deficit, and reclaiming technology from the billionares who made you feel stupid for not understanding it.

Pixel art of a police officer raising his fist in anger, with various speech-bubbles showing 'Just doin' my job mate', 'You are resisting an attack', 'I attack you in the name of the law'

Between Solitaire and Monopoly: Finding Community in the Games Industry

An assortment of small vinyl records.

Our (social) business model: how GFSC plans to fund community infrastructure

EMF Camp: Community Spotlight

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Our vision for the ‘community’ in community technology

A large dark grey metal statue of Spinoza covered in birds on a concrete plinth. It has a dodecahedron on it. In the background is an Amsterdam street scene on a sunny d

State your assumptions: GFSC's philosophical foundations

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Wanna Get Involved in Running GFSC?

Intro

a bunch of zines and badges laid out. (image repeats further down with more detailed alt text)

Zines are for Everyone

Are zines life? Vicky has done her best to find out. Read about a life in self-publishing, starting Pen Fight Distro, and what the future might bring for working-class zinesters.

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Hope, then Excommunication, and then Hope Again

An iPad sketch showing Ava's face at the helm of a crudely drawn ship "RMS Trans", with three smokestacks. It's approaching a small island covered in guns which are shooting on the ship

Hello, I'm Ava!

Olu's pegboard with various colourful notes on it including a drawing of a fox and some slogans spelt out in scrabble tiles

Hi, I'm Olu!

A colourfu musical instruments surround a set of cards with numbers 1-5 saying "forest, snooker, wine, beige, the pyramids".

How GFSC got to here (Part 1)

A collage of emma's visual diaries

Introducing: Emma!

One of my art pieces that started off as a top down drawing of the coast but transitioned to a desert landscape when rotated.

I, Micah

Practice

A photograph of grafitti and posters, in neon reg, orange and blue. Prominent slogans include 'We Can Do It!', 'cuestiona todo' (Spanish for 'question everything')

The Geeks for Social Change Manifesto v1.0

GFSC's goal is “help people use technology to do community stuff”. Today we're launching our manifesto for building this real world impact: shared infrastructure over products, capability over deficit, and reclaiming technology from the billionares who made you feel stupid for not understanding it.

An assortment of small vinyl records.

Our (social) business model: how GFSC plans to fund community infrastructure

A dog wearing sunglasses with small red lenses. These make the dog look very cool.

Our vision for the ‘community’ in community technology

A photograph of penguins standing together, walking right to left, with mountains in the background

Wanna Get Involved in Running GFSC?

A screenshot of The Sims 4 featuring two horses and two women in a throne room, one black woman in a tuxedo and tiara, the other a green Frankenstein's-creature type in peasant garb.

Pick Your Battles: a Shame Story

A 17th Century illustration of a bat and two human ears with the text 'FULGET SEMPER VIRTUS' meaning virtue always shines

Why bother making a podcast?

A group of people at Hulme Winter festival watching something off to a stage right of shot. There's various trees and a bus in the background, push chairs and people taking photos

What's happening where you live? Re-introducing PlaceCal

Spotlight

EMF Camp: Community Spotlight

Electromagnetic Field is a non-profit camping festival for those with an inquisitive mind or an interest in making things. Ben caught up with Sam Cook, one of the organisers of this ‘hacker camp’ which will next be held in July 2026.

Book cover titled "The Reflective Workbook for Partners of Transgender People" by D. M. Maynard. Surrounding the cover are pages and covers of similar supportive resources.

Trans Digital Archiving with Dr Zoyander Street

4 people gathering around to take a selfie infront of the Clifton suspension bridge in Bristol

Karrot: Community Spotlight

Four happy people on an allotment on a sunny day. Diner is on the right wearing a green tshirt and has short hair, glasses and a neat goatee

Resilience Web: Community Spotlight

Community Spotlight: Mastodon

A taller man and a shorter man both dressed like robots in cardboard boxes. Controls read "shenanigans", "pride", "sillyness".

Vote Out Covid: community spotlight

WIP

A large dark grey metal statue of Spinoza covered in birds on a concrete plinth. It has a dodecahedron on it. In the background is an Amsterdam street scene on a sunny d

State your assumptions: GFSC's philosophical foundations

We've spent nearly a decade doing community technology work and tried to write it down in about fifteen different ways. This is attempt sixteen: our honest takes on digital inclusion, co-production, and why the best community organising rarely looks like what funders want to fund.

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What’s Been Happening at Our Drop-ins?

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Our plan to build bottom-up resistance to billionaire technology

A woman checking her phone and laptop at the same time

Have you noticed how our lives feel louder and lonelier every year?

A crowd of varied queers stands around watching a man in a blue sweatshirt read off some notes. There are wine glasses and balloons in the forground, and a big Gendered Intelligence banner

Full Meta Jacket: How corporations colonised queer life and what we can do about it

How to establish a Community Technology Partnership

How to establish a Community Technology Partnership

Kim, Sean and Emma showcase a sticker that says Chips and a sticker that says Gravy (vegan)

GFSC's April Roundup

Roundups

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New Years' Prepositions: What's IN and what's OUT?

Geeks for Social What? Our year of explorations and beginnings

Autumn leaves! Staying aloft during the fall

What we did in July and August

Our first three months as the Geeks for Social Change Community!

Spotlight

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EMF Camp: Community Spotlight

Trans Digital Archiving with Dr Zoyander Street

Karrot: Community Spotlight

Resilience Web: Community Spotlight

Community Spotlight: Mastodon

Livestream

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Livestream: What If A Database Was A Map?

How we created a community digital commons: 8 years of PlaceCal

You Are The Client: We Make The Stickers