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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Trans Digital Archiving with Dr Zoyander Street
Kim caught up with Zoyander, Raju Rage and Studio Voltaire to chat about the challenges archiving our own trans history, and some of the tools we can use to do it.
Autumn leaves! Staying aloft during the fall
Ever wanted to start a zine, a website, a computer game, or a food redistribution project? Catch up with others who have (and the ways to do so) in this round up of our autumn and the people, activities and opportunities which emerged during this year's conker season.
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.
Karrot: Community Spotlight
Karrot is a free and open source tool for grassroots initiatives and groups of people that want to coordinate face-to-face activities on a local, autonomous and voluntary basis. Kim caught up with Karrot team member Nick for the lowdown.
Our plan to build bottom-up resistance to billionaire technology
We shouldn't need platforms owned by the biggest losers on the planet to live happy, healthy, connected lives. Our fledgling network of technologists and organisers aims to make tech billionaires obsolete by co-creating our own means of production.