Humane Technology, the Center, Community and Awesome list

[aschrijver]

Hi great hackers!

I am community moderator of The Center for Humane Technology (CHT) and maintainer ot the Awesome Humane Tech list.

With all the privacy-related scandals in the news, the non-profit CHT - co-founded by Tristan Harris, former ethicist at Google - has attracted quite a bit of media attention. You may have heard of us, or even already joined. Two months after the centers' creation we are still rather smallish, but with 1300+ members we can offer help with the hackathon!

The idea I am proposing is to rally our members to offer background support to the hackathon teams, by:

• Attracting attention to the hackathon on our Discourse forum
• Rallying members and asking them to be available during the hackathon to help the participants
• Having participants delegate requests for research, brainstorming ideas, etc. to the forum to make them more productive

Our members include people from all fields of interest, developers, architects, UX designers, neuro- and behavioural scientists, psychologists, lawyers, etc. This cooperation is a win-win situation, as - while the CHT organization furthers their plans - we need ways to engage and grow the community.

In addition to this I would like to point you to the Awesome Humane Tech project, where you can:

• Find examples of great humane OSS projects to build upon, and that sometimes need more love :heart:
• Contribute your own humane tech entries and proudly wear the badge on your README (discuss entries in this forum topic before PR'ing)

[dazzaji]

Very cool stuff. Thanks for sharing it here!