Come as you are and tell us how you'd like to be involved, or what you think we need.

Finally, we are always ready to welcome more people to write for our blog and help us produce streams and podcasts.

We hope to see you there.

As always if you'd like to support us from a distance you can find out how over here:
gfsc.community/support-us/

Our next meeting is Tuesday the 7th of April from 4pm-5pm BST on Discord

discord.gfsc.studio

If you can't attend, but would still like to get involved, please do drop Kim an email at [email protected].

We are also interested in any other skills you might have to bring such as:

• graphic design
• writing documentation
• management accounting
• social business development
• bid writing sales and lead generation for our projects such as PlaceCal
• qualitative and quantative research
• and of course contributing code.

But don't let these asks limit you!

We are especially looking for:

• people who can proactively project manage some organisational operations
• people with volunteer and community management experience
• people who are interested in helping maintain our codebases
• people who can manage our Mastodon co-op cloud server.

We'd love you to be involved
(Yes you!)

This is a meeting for anyone interested in helping GFSC become a properly co-operative and community-run project.

We're a community of people using technology to help communities do community stuff.

If you'd like to be involved in that mission in any way, this is your chance.

You decide where your limits are. As the good book puts it:

“All things are permissible, but not all things are beneficial.” (1 Corinthians 10:23).

If we live with that in mind, and we might be able to work together long enough to make things actually better. Even if I eat meat and you buy from Disney.

(You should still keep off X and Harry Potter, though).

Yes, we use bad systems and services.

Yes, these are bad corporations.

But until we build something which is better, and which works, and which people come to of their own volition, we need to tolerate compromise and disagreement.

It suits companies well for us to look at personal shame and guilt, rather than collective responsibility.

BP introduced the idea of 'carbon footprints' to shift responsibility from corporations to individuals.

There are no good choices, so we struggle under the weight of shame.

Meanwhile, profits increase.