Hey friends, Happy new year! Hope you had some proper rest over December. I'm getting back into the swing of GFSC stuff and wanted to see if there's still an appetite for the tech partners catch-ups. Quick reminder of the mission which we have now refined over the last few months: *GFSC are a collective helping communities use technology to do community stuff*. The original aim of these meetings was to clarify what we're all offering to local groups and how our work fits together and how we might collectively promote it - I think that's what we've been doing on the blog, it's still valuable, and I'd love to pick it back up with you. The original aim of these meetings was to clarify what we're all offering to local groups and how our work fits together. I think it's worth picking back up because *the more community groups we can get using and commissioning open source/FLOSS tools, the more work there is for all of us*. Right now community orgs default to big tech or expensive proprietary systems because there isnt' enough advocacy or support for alternatives, but right now there is an increasing appetite to get off corporate services and a big communications gap with using community-led tech. If we can build that demand together it creates leads and opportunities for all of us and hopfully takes some small steps towards our overall goal of post billionare technology :) I've got funding from the Disrupt Foundation to work on this more proactively now, so I can actually lead on things rather than it being another thing we're all squeezing in around the edges. Part of what I'm working on is putting together a new National Lottery Community Fund bid to fund this work properly going forward, and I'd love your input on how that shapes up. Cabbage.gay here for availability: https://cabbage.gay/meeting/3HfoKDLGqp#34ed064d94900ebe8172f8d07c3f00565ca25... Here's the full Disrupt application for context if you want to see where my head's at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xY8VPHg5QOsxJGEYI8osgPrJ_1lv2S48h97QmmZd... No pressure if capacity isn't there right now - feel free to let me know what you need directly. PS - if anyones in Manchester at any point I would love to meet up and have these chats IRL! Kim -- Dr Kim Foale (she/they <https://name.pn/kim-foale>) *Working hours: Mon-Wed 10-5pm.* Learn more about Geeks for Social Change Community <https://gfsc.community/>, a collective building post-billionaire technology for a survivable world. See work by Geeks for Social Change Studio <https://gfsc.studio/>, my community technology consultancy. 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.*