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Our vision for the ‘community’ in community technology

Our goal is to help community organisations do things together rather than individually. Each project is a different expression of that. Read our plan to build shared community infrastructure.

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State your assumptions: GFSC's philosophical foundations

We've spent nearly a decade doing community technology work and tried to write it down it 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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Wanna Get Involved in Running GFSC?

Collective meetings are beginning again on Tuesday 7th April at 4pm. Find out more about what we're looking for and come and get involved in running Geeks for Social Change!

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Pick Your Battles: a Shame Story

In which we wrestle with the guilt of ‘no ethical consumption under capitalism‘, and hopefully resolve to cut everyone a bit of slack.

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What’s Been Happening at Our Drop-ins?

We launched our four community drop-ins at the start of the year, and we’re now a couple of months in. Here's some of what we've learnt – and when you can drop in and join us next.

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Why bother making a podcast?

Anyone could make a podcast, but why would you want to? An in-depth look at the reasons for and against podcasts as political, creative and social force (and why right-wing podcasts succeed in ways left-wing ones don't)

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What our community told us: GFSC Supporter Survey 2026

High anxiety, signs of hope, queer rights and freedom from big tech's clutches! We ran our first supporter survey in February and here is what we learnt.

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

If you've hung around us the last few years you undoubtedly will have heard us go on about PlaceCal. But what is it, why does it matter, how can you and your community benefit, and why has it taken us so long? Kim takes it from the top and outlines our ambitions for community technology in 2026.

The Geeks for Social Change Supporter Survey 2026!

The Geeks for Social Change Supporter Survey 2026!

We’re getting a better idea of our supporters by researching what people actually need from technology. Help us capture a snapshot of your feelings that we can feed into our plan for the coming year.

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Announcing GFSC Community Drop-ins!

GFSC is starting four regular monthly drop-ins for: tech developers; artists and freelancers; community organisers; and writers and researchers. They're focussed on developing and supporting people to use open source and community technology, including our own PlaceCal platform.

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What If We Made Money at the Intersection of Art and Technology?

just kidding ........ unless ?? 👀 💰 💻 🧑‍🎨. A run-down of the 15 ways we could think of to get funding for your project: from the capitalist (venture capital) to the grassroots (direct donations). We cover the various types of community, arts, research and business funding, and even mention DAOs.

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

Six Ins and Six Outs for 2026. Time to get away from despair, and from renting software from billionaires. Time to get into community-ownership, DIY culture and taking action with a certain gusto and resolve.

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Geeks for Social What? Our year of explorations and beginnings

All years in recent memory have been grievous and alarming, but here's what we did to make 2025 better and build for 2026. A run-down of GFSC's projects, articles, and methods for making technology which can strengthen communities.

Livestream: What If A Database Was A Map?

Livestream: What If A Database Was A Map?

For our next livestream we're speaking with Arbnor Hisenaj from Common Knowledge about Mapped, a tool for organisers and campaigners that transforms databases and membership lists into interactive maps.