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Five members of Manchester Age Friendly Neighbourhoods smiling at the camera after completing PlaceCal training.

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

For our second livestream we're looking at the story of PlaceCal, technology that serves communities by aggregating and displaying events in a single place. Featuring Kim and Sean (GFSC), Rakesh (Tipping Point), Jay (Gendered Intelligence) and Stefan (Manchester School of Architecture).

A webpage showing a load of hex codes and horrible colours

Accessibility: complexity and contradictions in graphic design

An audience is gathered around a stage at a small bar. Kim is on stage, who is a white transfemme with long hair, wearing a pink blouse with her back to us.

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

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

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

Vote Out Covid: community spotlight

Roundups

An audience is gathered around a stage at a small bar. Kim is on stage, who is a white transfemme with long hair, wearing a pink blouse with her back to us.

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

Our grand plot to overthrow billionare technologists and place communities in charge of their own technology is gathering pace. Find out about what we've been up to since we launched this blog, and find out how to join us.

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

GFSC's April Roundup

The words March Roundup next to a multipack of scampi fries stuck to an unappealing-looking wall.

GFSC's March Roundup

5 happy humans walking on a path in the sunshine and smiling at the camera

Introducing the future of Geeks for Social Change!

WIP

An audience is gathered around a stage at a small bar. Kim is on stage, who is a white transfemme with long hair, wearing a pink blouse with her back to us.

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

Our grand plot to overthrow billionare technologists and place communities in charge of their own technology is gathering pace. Find out about what we've been up to since we launched this blog, and find out how to join us.

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

Can you subvert YouTube's battle for your eyeballs?

Can you subvert YouTube's battle for your eyeballs?

Promo image. Dungeons and Democracy - Can Deliberation Be Fun? There's a picketer with a sign saying: cast fireball please.

Dungeons & Democracy: Crowdwork As A Design Problem

Intro

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!

Meet Olu: developer, writer, sewer, apprendre français-er, and internet enjoyer. Read about their experiences trying to find a place in the social enterprise, charity, non-profit and social enterprise worlds, what bought them to GFSC, and their surprising optimism for technology despite it all.

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

Hello, Sean Morley speaking

Hello, Sean Morley speaking

A drawing of Petra's hand reaching out over five artistically arranged sheared photographs of landscapes, trains, and people.

Greetings from Petra

5 happy humans walking on a path in the sunshine and smiling at the camera

Introducing the future of Geeks for Social Change!

Practice

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

Accessibility: complexity and contradictions in graphic design

Dungeons & Democracy: Crowdwork As A Design Problem

Livestream

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

You Are The Client: We Make The Stickers

Spotlight

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Vote Out Covid: community spotlight