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GFSC are a collective imagining hopeful post-billionaire technology and finding scraps of pleasure in a crumbled social order.
Read about our new plans and support our tentative (but necessary) optimism in an update from our founder.
gfsc.community/the-future-of…
A hillariously leading and unscientific survey (seriously who designed this?) but a chance to say no to more cops and money for cops. I used the space to suggest the percept goes to libraries and social care instead.
GMP have 8,076 police officers but more are required to meet the levels we had a decade ago
Are you willing to pay more to keep our communities safe and retain investment in neighbourhood policing?
🗣️Take a minute to share your views on Police funding: orlo.uk/i2f9I
ALT Image of a Police Officer with a tram in the background, with text reading “Have your say on the Police Precept funding in Greater Manchester. Share your views, gmconsult.org.”
We are actively looking for #Elm volunteers to help squash our last few bugs and get The Trans Dimension up and running properly - if you're able to help us out please do get in touch!
transdimension.uk/news/can-y…
We have a few bugs to iron out, but we're delighted to announce The Trans Dimension now covers #Manchester as well as #London
Distressed by the news and looking for #trans community near you? Check it out:
transdimension.uk/
This is a shoestring project (hence the bugs!), if you're able to give us a one-off or recurring donation to help us finish up the tech and expand to other cities, please consider donating 🙏
donorbox.org/the-trans-dimen…
Tomorrow (12/12@8pm) @oluoluoxenfree and @kimadactl are hosting a new GFSC Discord social: Content Club!
We’re going to design and make a video about creating an accessibility statement, based on our Trans Dimension Guide to Accessible Events.
gfsc.studio/project/guide-to…
Reactions to our recent report showed a lack of understanding around what access statements are for and what they should contain. In our view they shouldn’t be a set of warnings about things venues don’t have, but rather a clear invitation to join in!
gfsc.studio/blog/2024/trans-…
Lack of good accessibility statements makes community action hard to coordinate, as in most cases venue accessibility is in the hands of mega-landlords like Bruntwood.
Join us on the GFSC discord tomorrow at 8pm and help us make a video!
discord.com/invite/EwFHSp8h9…
We’ve just published out report of what we did, what we spent it on, and what we think grassroots groups, funders and landlords could do to make the world a more just place for trans and disabled people. We’ll be sharing some more thoughts over the week.
gfsc.studio/blog/2024/trans-…
We think much more could be done by landlords and the wider VCSE sector to provide this much-needed space to some of the most marginalised.
Read the full report here: gfsc.studio/blog/2024/trans-…
We welcome financial donations to continue the work we do at GFSC on projects like the Trans Organisers Fund ko-fi.com/gfscstudio. We also welcome conversations with any funders who want to help us continue this work, as our source of funding for this work no longer exists.
The Trans Organisers Fund was a one-off pilot fund for trans organisers in Greater Manchester. The fund was administered by Geeks for Social Change and financially backed by Lankelly Chase, with a steering group consisting of Greater Manchester-based trans organisers.
Unsure the future of this profile but do give us a follow on the other sites:
@gfsc.studio on bsky
@[email protected] on mastodon
or our mailing list is in the footer on our website: gfsc.studio/contact/
Lots of updates from us coming soon we know its been a while!
Thanks so much for having us! You can check out our section at this timestamp: youtu.be/V7Sxo0IXe8g?t=15496
💙 What can we say apart from THANK YOU?
💻🌱 You can view the recordings of #TheTechWeWant Summit on the links below:
🔴 Day One – youtube.com/live/o50Jd1w6xKw
🔴 Day Two – youtube.com/live/V7Sxo0IXe8g
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Our Whose Voices? podcast is back, this time looking into the mysterious world of structured data! Whose ways of understanding the world are encoded into these data points, and what are the consequences of this? #DecolonizingStructuredData
ALT Podcast guest Dumisani Ndubane and host Maari Maitreyi are in two ovals in the right-hand corner with episode title “Nothing about us, without us”: Dumisani Ndubane reflects on ways to decolonise structured data” in the bottom left corner. The graphic is bright green and orange and the Whose Knowledge? Logo in white is at the bottom right corner.
Super excited to present PlaceCal on Friday alongside all these other lovely open source demos!!
🌟 Tech Demos Announcement 🌟
💻🌱 #TheTechWeWant Summit is starting tomorrow. Here's the programme for day two, featuring 15 demos from all around the world selected through an open call.
You can still register 👉🏾 okfn.org/the-tech-we-want
