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Kim Town
Dr Kim Foale's personal archive. Writing and work on technology, sound, games, and social change.
Welcome to
Dr Kim Foale's personal archive. Writing and work on technology, sound, games, and social change.
A community blog and infrastructure organisation building bottom-up resistance to billionaire technology.
How we helped The Wildlife Trusts to create a community web resource to make it easier to 'take action for nature'.
A full website migration and rebrand for the UK's largest trans charity, helping them support their users and administrate their workload more effectively.
We've spent nearly a decade doing community technology work and tried to write it down it in about fifteen different ways. This is attempt sixteen: our honest takes on digital inclusion, co-production, and why the best community organising rarely looks like what funders want to fund.
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If you've hung around us the last few years you undoubtedly will have heard us go on about PlaceCal. But what is it, why does it matter, how can you and your community benefit, and why has it taken us so long? Kim takes it from the top and outlines our ambitions for community technology in 2026.
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just kidding ........ unless ?? đ đ° đť đ§âđ¨. A run-down of the 15 ways we could think of to get funding for your project: from the capitalist (venture capital) to the grassroots (direct donations). We cover the various types of community, arts, research and business funding, and even mention DAOs.
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Five years ago, I calmed myself with the words 'What a silly year!'. Half a decade later, this still applies.
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"I'm so excited that you reached out! I love your work and it means a lot that this project connects with your practice and your communities."
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We emerged out of a dream to build a digital sharing platform for the world, building off the back of the success a great foodsharing platform for German-speaking regions.
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I'm Kim Foale, a technologist, sound artist, and community organiser based in Manchester.
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