Ask HN: How to use your hacker skills for good?
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Three sites dedicated to this are VolunteerMatch, Idealist, and Catchafire.
For freelancing, there's Upwork (formerly elance/Odesk), which expects you to be remote. Good luck!
For freelancing, there's Upwork (formerly elance/Odesk), which expects you to be remote. Good luck!
Do you mean hacker or cracker? :-)
for the second option there are limitless use cases :)
I became a nomad last Christmas, in order to be able to explore more. Such that there is a better balance between my time where I discover new, while working and studying. This turned out to be great, and after 6 months I'm very happy how it all turned out and has evolved so far.
So enough about that. My educational background is a cross between electrical engineering, artistic education, game development and general computer science. Most of it is learned on my own, and I continue to learn alone or within an (online) community.
I always wanted to help other people, but never really have done so, beyond some local stuff. In the last months I did start doing volunteering, but I never could use my hacker skills (Hardware + (mostly) Software) while doing so.
This website/community often gives me great ideas because of articles shared or questions asked by other people. Therefore I would like to ask a question of my own:
Are there any specific websites/communities where I can find more information about organizations and companies that recruit "hackers" to help them, help others. Could be both on a volunteering, freelance or permanent basis. I'm also location independent, so it could be pretty much anywhere on this planet.