Sydney Palestine Activist Weekly Collaboration Hub

About

We are an open collective sharing simple, usable tech setups for organising, and helping activists use tech to their advantage.

We are an open, grassroots effort to make digital tools work for people who are too often excluded from traditional organising spaces.
We believe participation should not depend on where you live, how mobile you are, how much time you have, or how comfortable you are with technology. Too many activist spaces—online and offline—become inaccessible, centralised, or socially gatekept.
We aim to lower those barriers so organisations can have public open layers of interaction that assist their onboarding process.
Our focus is on creating and sharing simple, deployable digital systems that enable people to gather, communicate, and organise without friction. These systems prioritise open access, resilience over perfection, and collective use over individual control.
We do not claim to provide perfect security or universal solutions. Instead, we offer transparent, adaptable tools and practices, with clear tradeoffs, so communities can choose what works for them.

🎯 Core Goals

• Make it usable - If you can’t figure it out quickly, it’s not good enough.
• Make it accessible - Not everyone can show up in person or spend hours learning tools.
• Keep it open - Share links, no accounts required, where possible.
• Accept reality - Things can break, get spammed, or wiped. Build so it’s not the end of the world.
• Don’t gatekeep - If only insiders or tech people can use it, we’ve failed.
• Use what already works - No need to reinvent everything—just make it easier to use.
• Be honest - Every setup has tradeoffs. Say what they are.

🎯 Extended Goals 🎯

1. Lower the barrier to participation
   • Enable instant access via shared links (no accounts required where possible)
   • Support people with limited time, bandwidth, or technical experience
   • Design for mobile and low-resource environments


2. Support remote and distributed organising
   • Make it easier to participate without physical presence
   • Reduce total dependence on centralised, in-person networks
   • Provide tools that work across distance and time zones


3. Build resilient, not perfect, systems
   • Accept that open systems may be disrupted, and design accordingly
   • Support open contribution while allowing layered moderation where needed
   • Encourage layered approaches to overall use both pros and cons to our advantage


4. Enable modular and adaptable use
   • Curate and configure existing open source tools (rather than reinventing them)
   • Allow communities to mix and match tools based on their needs
   • Document workflows, not just installations


5. Future projects
   • Extend to manufacturing tech, using 3d printers to print metal or plastic industrial quality parts
   • Extend to grafitti, 3d print complex stencils
   • Have a database for the above files
   • help set up plastic recycling to filament programs - to help clean up the creeks
   • Set up a service to help social media organisers learn how to automate posting to multiple accounts
   • There are many capabale open local AI/related tech models/programs that activists, with even very strict anti-AI ethical requirements, would approve of and could advantage from, Set up a service to help people benefit from new tech while helping them understand how to navigate their concerns when choosing what to use.
   • Open source community game design/creation
   • A data-base/server for anyone to dump random activist ideas have them auto embedded and stored and auto tagged etc
   • Map out all existing public projects to help people navigate to communities that work with their ideals and see how we can all help each other, Organisation is also reducing redundant effort

Solutions (unfinished section)