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How to establish a Community Technology Partnership

How to establish a Community Technology Partnership

Let's retire the endless magic bullets and solve problems together instead. Kim lays out a methodology for how we can start building technology by thinking about people, not products: and guess what, it's rooted in ✨ existing community networks ✨.

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

GFSC's April Roundup

New writers, new stickers, new articles. Here's your monthly roundup to see how the GFSC community is growing including our first livestream (an immersive client simulator x dolmio sauce mascot appreciation crèche) and an interview with the creators of the Vote Out Covid webapp.

Can you subvert YouTube's battle for your eyeballs?

Can you subvert YouTube's battle for your eyeballs?

YouTube's homepage is a slot machine: brightly lit, loud, ephemeral, provocative, uncertain, and there to make money for the house. Exposing its design principles is a surprisingly complicated task. Micah has a crack at it, investigating how a browser extension might take away the house's edge.

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

Heckler war stories do very well. Imagine an organised insurrection. Sean has had one of his worst ideas ever, and can't wait to play it with you and 50 of our closest friends. (This is emphatically not a criticism of democracy as a concept.)