I’m a CS student, I have some time before I graduate and have kind of dipped my toes in various things without specializing in anything. I would like to know what would be useful for the movement, so that I can use my skills to contribute.

And before people say “everything is useful”…well yeah but it’s nice and fulfilling to have specific ideas I can work on learning/building myself.

Also where can I find leftist open source projects? I know lemmy and this website for one are open source but not sure of others.

  • captcha [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 years ago

    No tech project is going to build socialism. Many Occupy Wall street era people tried it and it went no where. That said, in the course of building a socialist movement IRL, you’ll find having tech skills are occaisonally useful, either to have an online presence like a website or to automate tedious computer work.

    • deploy a static site with github or gitlab pages
    • DNS management.
    • manage a linux cloud VM. ssh and bash etc.
    • deploy services to a VM with docker-compose. Eg self host wordpress
    • Processing datasets like membership lists. VBA, python, R etc.
    • web scraping whatever data you’ll need.

    I cannot emphasize this enough, the less code the better. Keep project small and tight. Try to leverage existing functionality as much as possible.