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Tech for Palestine is an umbrella group for the disparate groups in tech working
towards Palestinian freedom. This is brand new and things are super fluid.
# Tech for Palestine Open Source

# Goals
**Tech for Palestine (T4P)** is a nonprofit advancing Palestinian liberation through technology. We unite thousands of engineers, founders, product marketers, and technologists around the world to build open-source tools and advocacy platforms that support organizing, education, and awareness.

This is a place for the tech community to work together to help end the war on
the people of Gaza, by contributing in any way we can to have a permanent
ceasefire.
Since launching, we’ve incubated 60+ projects spanning web, mobile, AI, and data, everything from media-bias trackers to boycott infrastructure. With active contributors and donors, T4P helps launch and scale tools that challenge censorship, amplify advocacy, and build alternatives.

Our short-term goal is to normalize and enable tech folks to speak up for the
people of Palestine. Our main goal is to shift the Overton Window, and make it
easier to speak up for Palestinian humanity and freedom, while making it harder
to say the sort of genocidal statements about Palestine that are common among
tech investors and leaders.
## What We Build

# Organization
T4P incubates and supports projects that meet real needs in Palestinian advocacy. Focus areas include:

This is a very early stage project, and is for the moment being run by Paul
Biggar, to bring together all the different projects and people who reached out
after his [I can't sleep](https://blog.paulbiggar.com/i-cant-sleep) blog post.
- Media accountability and bias-tracking tools
- Boycott-enabling infrastructure and ethical tech alternatives
- Education, training, and hiring pipelines for Palestinian technologists
- Platforms for secure communication, protest coordination, and overcoming censorship barriers
- Other projects that are aligned with the mission and are in the technology field

The founding team is made up of dozens of founders, engineers, investors,
product, marketing, community organizers, and activists from the tech ecosystem.
Whether you're a developer, designer, researcher, or just open-source curious, we welcome contributors of all skill levels. Your PRs, issue reports, and feedback help move these projects forward.

The community is governed by a [Code of
conduct](https://github.com/techforpalestine/code-of-conduct).
Some of these projects are backed by the T4P incubator that provides mentorship, technical guidance, and visibility to support and grow their impact.

We hang out [in our discord](https://techforpalestine.org/discord-invite).
## How We Work

# Privacy/security
- **Volunteer Community:** Maintainers, contributors, and collaborators from around the world
- **Incubator Support:** Mentorship, infrastructure, recruiting help, and some grant support
- **Open and Inclusive:** Good first issues, active maintainers, and clear contribution guidelines

When contributing, consider whether you want to use your real account. We are
happy to work with semi- or fully-anonymous individuals (that is, using clean
emails and accounts only when speaking with us) on GitHub or in our Discord.
We operate as an engineering collective focused on building impactful, open-source tools. If you're interested in contributing, explore our [GitHub repositories](https://github.com/orgs/TechForPalestine/repositories), pick up an issue, or open a pull request. We expect contributors to follow our [Code of Conduct](https://github.com/techforpalestine/code-of-conduct).

# Projects
You can also join our community on [Discord](https://techforpalestine.org/discord-invite) to connect with project leads, get support, or find a team to collaborate with.

We do projects with the goal of normalizing Palestinian humanity within the
tech community:
## Privacy & Security

- help tech people speak up for Palestine, especially about the genocide in Gaza
- fight for a permanent ceasefire
- raise awareness of investors/companies who are part of the anti-Palestinian movement
- bring support and work with investors and companies who are part of the pro-Palestinian movement
- support Palestinians within tech (both the diaspora, and within Palestine)
- bring awareness to the humanity of the Palestinian people
- activism to bring awareness to Israeli genocide and how tech is complicit
When contributing, consider whether you want to use your real account. We are happy to work with semi- or fully-anonymous individuals (that is, using clean emails and accounts only when speaking with us) on GitHub or in our Discord.

We also try to help out other projects working on similar goals, including those
parts of the movement whose focus is outside of tech.
## Get Involved

# How to help
- **🛠️ Contribute Code:** Browse [repos](https://github.com/TechForPalestine), pick up an issue, or [fill out our volunteer form](https://techforpalestine.org/volunteer-form) to get matched with a project.
- **🚀 Launch a Project:** Have an idea aligned with our mission? [Apply to the Incubator](https://techforpalestine.org/project-application-form), or explore the [ideas board](https://techforpalestine.org/ideas/) to get started.
- **🤝 Partner with Us:** [Collaborate with us](mailto:community@techforpalestine.org) as an organization, nonprofit, or ethical tech company.
- **📢 Spread the Word:** [Follow and share our work](https://techforpalestine.org/) to grow the movement.
- **💰 Donate:** [Support impactful digital tools](https://techforpalestine.org/donate) that strengthen Palestinian advocacy.
- **💬 Join the Community:** Connect with contributors and project leads on [Discord](https://techforpalestine.org/discord-invite).

We welcome volunteers and try to connect them with our projects and other
projects in the ecosystem.
## Legal

As we are brand new, our process of connecting people is a little haphazard and
broken - we're working on it.

## Volunteering your talents

There are a few places in our discord where you can volunteer your talents. Each
of these are categories (groups of channels) of our Discord, currently named:

### Official TFP projects

These are official projects that have joined the collective, and usually have
[GitHub repos](https://github.com/orgs/TechForPalestine/repositories).

### Community Experiments

When one or more members of the community starts something, we will give them a
channel to conduct the experiment, and maybe a GitHub repo. These may later become
official projects, die from lack of interest, learn that it will not be successful,
or may choose not to become an official project and move elsewhere.

### External Projects

Many people work in the broader ecosystem, and we suggest that those projects have
a channel in our discord where they can recruit technical help, liase with the community,
etc. They will occasionally post their needs, or you can contact them there and see how
you can help.

## Joining Tech For Palestine with a project

If you have an existing project and would like to become one of the collective, we're
recruiting. In particular, this is suitable for projects which help with our goal of
changing how the tech industry perceives Palestinian people. This is pretty broad,
however, and if you can articulate a good thesis for how it fits, that's fine.

Official projects are run as official projects in the Discord, and get direct resources
(such as PM support), cloud hosting, as well as official URLs, branding, and marketing
support. It is also good for people worried about their reputation or job - running it
as a TFP project can help distance you and helps reduce the risk.

Note that we don't require you become part of TFP to benefit from the community. You can
ask for a liason channel in our Discord to help you stay in touch with our community, and
should feel free to recruit technical talent from our discord. We can help connect you to
people you need. We're also happy to market with you if it matches our goals (for example,
we're happy to tweet or retweet projects which match, do collaborations, etc).

To propose adding a project, post in our
[project channel](https://discord.com/channels/1186702814341234740/1192871299509391512).

### Suggest/work on a new project

You do not need our permission to start a new project that fits in our goals --
we are a broad community and anything that fits under our goals is welcome as
long as it abides by our [Code of
Conduct](https://github.com/TechForPalestine/code-of-conduct).

Project proposals and ideas can be posted in our [project forum](https://discord.com/channels/1186702814341234740/1192871299509391512) in the discord. These can become Community Experiments if people wish, and can become Official TFP projects as well.

If you start one, we can add a channel in our discord and work with you to get
the resources you need (usually volunteers).
Tech for Palestine is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.