GFSC Community

GFSC Community is a not-for-profit infrastructure organisation that enables people to create ethical, meaningful, creative and socially valuable technology and design. It addresses a gap where many individuals lack access to capital, social networks, project mentoring, and job opportunities to sustain left-tech projects.

The community blog launched in March 2025, emphasising “the doing, recognising that the left is very critique-focussed.” The focus is on creating post-billionaire technology: infrastructure owned and operated by communities themselves.

Mission

GFSC aims to create a culture where communities own and operate their own community technology as a normal part of community life. The organisation seeks to make tech billionaires obsolete by developing community-controlled means of digital production.

Key Problems Addressed

• Corporate platforms designed to divide attention and extract value from communities
• Dominance of speculative startup culture funded by venture capital
• Lack of sustainable funding models for community-owned tech alternatives
• Technology methodologies adapted for profit rather than community benefit

What We Do

• Community Spaces: Managed Discord servers and email lists serving as entry points for members
• Events: Regular gatherings highlighting materialist left-wing and anarchist perspectives
• Project Support: Connects community projects with volunteer networks, funding, and visibility
• Collective Investment: Facilitates collaborative capital attraction for ambitious initiatives

Network Partners

GFSC collaborates with tech co-ops (Common Knowledge, Autonomic), open-source projects (Mastodon, Karrot), and community-focused studios creating tools like PlaceCal (event aggregation), Mapped (membership visualisation), and Resilience Web (local resource mapping).

First Year

In its first year, GFSC Community engaged 23 volunteers across various projects, published 33 articles featuring 8 new voices, hosted 3 livestreamed events, and conducted community spotlight interviews with organisations like Karrot, Mastodon, and Resilience Web.