[ctp-tech] Meeting tomorrow + tendering q

Heya all just a reminder we have a meeting in tomorrow at noon - zoom here https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84708264008?pwd=iaMMhdtol3bTbWibenAZho1avKHAwl.1 I have a question for you all which is about how we go for work. So currently we are prob all tendering for the same jobs (if we are tendering at all) and are very reliant on the left economy at large to be producing enough work for us collectively (which is getting more and more iffy huh). Maybe theres better times for us to intervene in designing and delivering work together. This is confidential (i.e. please don't share off list) but I've been doing an intro consult with the Trans Learning Partnership and in the last session we boiled it down to 3 main user stories: [image: Screenshot 2024-11-18 at 15.44.05.png] Our goal is to get to something that can go directly in a funding bid. If I'm gonna shift GFSC more into this left-infrastructure role, I'm now realising maybe this is the time it would be good to involve other perspectives/ideas? Or at least open the door to anyone interested? Like maybe GFSC is now less interested in the build and more interested in helping shepherd these projects in and the relationship is less just studio-client and more about getting the balance right between engaging in existing political movements and doing the work? Not sure. Thoughts welcome either on this list or tomorrow. I can't pay you but if anyone did want to come to the final session next week with them where we are doing some "how might wes" against this do let me know, it's 1-4 next tue. (Obviously in this case its a trans group so I would prob want to partner with trans-led or trans-involving studios but I'm talking about the general principle here of how to put together a more community-oriented build team than this specific job as well!) Kim -- Dr Kim Foale (they/she <https://name.pn/kim-foale>) *Working hours: Mon-Wed 10-5pm.* Geeks For Social Change <https://gfsc.studio/> - Support our mission of a fairer world using technology & join our email list <https://gfsc.studio/mailing-list> - Project: The Trans Dimension, a new space for trans community enabled by technology and collaboration. <https://gfsc.studio/2021/12/14/enter-trans-dimension.html> - Article: "Why is it so hard to do nice things, that make a difference, with other people?" <https://gfsc.studio/2022/06/30/why-is-it-so-hard-to-do-nice-things.html> If anything about this email is confusing or unclear please let me know. I am happy to provide information in different ways such as clearer language, over a phone call, with a voice note, or in plain text. Please don't feel the need to ever apologise for responding to my emails at your own pace. *Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.*