Chat Hackers - Hack Day

🌐 Join us for a hands-on Hack Day!

Community organizing is increasingly happening in chat apps like WhatsApp. While these platforms excel in communication, they often lack essential tools for campaigners, volunteers, and community organizers.

This event will bring together technologists from the Campaign Lab community to create lightweight, reusable tools for organizers using Matrix. We'll explore how Matrix can serve as an open and flexible layer for developing features that integrate into existing organizing workflows, enabling communities to coordinate activities without requiring members to adopt complex new systems.

👥 Who should attend?

• Developers and civic technologists
• Designers and product thinkers
• Campaigners with technical experience
• Community organizers facing real-world challenges
• Anyone interested in Matrix, chat technology, or digital organizing

You don’t need to be a Matrix expert to participate! Whether you come with an idea, want to join an existing team, or simply bring your skills, the goal is to leave with working prototypes that could become genuinely useful tools for organizers.

The day will kick off with an introduction to the Chat Hackers vision, the Matrix ecosystem, and potential challenges. Participants will then form teams, develop prototypes, and share their creations at the end of the day.

Led by: John Evans, creator of SpaceTube and an expert in decentralized chat systems and Matrix, in collaboration with Campaign Lab.

📍 Location: Newspeak House, 133 Bethnal Grn Rd, London E2 7DG, UK