Hack the Left is an anticapitalist hackathon, February 5-7 at Noisebridge.
This is an experiment to see what happens when you get a bunch of leftists in a room for a weekend with the intention to advance liberatory and anticapitalist projects using technology. This includes software projects like Tor and Signal, art projects like the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and Men in Grey, hardware projects like mesh networks and signal jammers, and tools for rad organizations like Anti Police-Terrorism Project and Food Not Bombs. It's clear that there's a huge amount of opportunity for liberatory technology. It's up to us to build it.
We also need people involved with left-aligned organizations, technical or not, to show up and help guide all the technical folks towards doing things that are actually useful. We want to build with, not for.
Cost is a recommended donation of $15. In the unlikely event that this makes any money, it will be donated to Noisebridge.
I'd love for people with a wide range of skills to come, from programmers to artists to welders. Right now I'm especially interested in getting people involved with existing lefty projects and organizations to think about coming and guiding teams towards doing useful things -- if that sounds like it might be you, please get in touch (or at least come so we can maybe build something with you).