Solidarity not Charity and Collective Liberation
summary
A handful of tech folx build a fit-to-suit app to organize mutual aid because spreadsheets leak PII and volunteers are overwhelmed. Projects get spun up (and down) multiple volunteer and service projects during 2020; some sustain, many burn out. Ruby for Good software now serves hundreds of diaper banks, a concrete win that also surfaces privacy and maintenance lessons. Practical next steps listed: join Ruby for Good repos, RailsBridge mentoring, Code for America brigades, or pick a low-commit issue and contribute.
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chapters (4)
- 0:00Start
- 5:34A recipe for Community involvement
- 7:49What is Collective Liberation, anyway?
- 9:50Solidarity NOT Charity, you say?
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