Launching the Open Maker Community

Tom C W
3 min readDec 10, 2021

New year, new plans. The rapidly approaching end of year is often a catalyst for people setting out plans for how next year will be different, and we — Tom Watson and Tom French — are certainly one of those cliches! We have a plan to set out to you here, as well as explain where it came from and how you can be part of it…

The plan

And so, here we are, launching…

📢 Open Makers Community: Collectively exploring no-code tools to build and openly share things for social purpose

Starting in January, we are going to be hosting some events which we hope are being created in response to what people told us they wanted.

We will be hosting:

Monthly 1 hr How To Showcases — where we, and guests, will talk through a specific tool or application that has been created, exploring how it was built, what it is for, and sharing some templates or guides.

Quarterly Community Builds — where we come together around a specific need or use case, and collaboratively build a solution in a set time, and share it openly. We plan to do some of these online, and some in person with real people (so if you have an idea for a venue please let us know!)

Monthly ‘AMA’ sessions — 45 minute sessions in the evening where you can ask…

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Tom C W

Do Good, Be Awesome. Thoughts on startups, social change, awesome things, and possibly running.