Software Development as Direct Action (Slides+Voiceover)
Channel: maymaym
Date: 2015-08-19

Okay, so we’re here to talk about Software Development as Direct Action, and we don’t have much time. There are big problems out there and they need solving today. In the next ten minutes, I’m going to show you how you can solve them.

When we talk about “Direct Action” we mean:

Any action that immediately addresses the root cause of a problem.

“Direct action software development” is a translation of direct action to the digital realm. It is:

Any code that immediately addresses the root cause of a problem.

Code is action.

This is the story of one direct action software development project, and an introduction to the concept that you can share with your fellow hacktivists.

FULL TRANSCRIPT: https://maymay.net/blog/2015/07/22/software-development-as-direct-action/