Coders & Organizers 2025

Back down to earth with a bump today after an amazing weekend attending the Coders & Organizers meetup here in Malmö. Difficult to readjust back to everyday life after such an inspiring and productive experience.

We heard incredibly cool insights from some of the people behind the recent political earthquakes in New York and Copenhagen, as well as ideas from people working to bring about similar changes elsewhere. And we worked together on creating the tools to deliver on those strategies.

I don't have the numbers but I think this event was something like double the size of any Zetkin-related event I've attended previously. And I've noticed that one of the reasons to look forward to these events is now that it's become an opportunity to catch up with friends within the movement from all over the place. It's growing. We're growing.

2026 is an election year in Sweden and I'm excited because all around me I see a movement with energy and ideas and the courage to combine the two into action. It's not just at the big events either. Every time I make a quick trip to the store to stock up on bread or eggs or whatever and see someone's covered up some horrible zionist graffiti along my route that sense of a movement on the rise grows stronger.

A couple of new ideas from the weekend really stuck with me. One was from the DSA talk, and was about how the majority of their door-knocking campaign is organised by volunteers who graduate from just knocking on doors to a field lead role, where they coordinate a whole team of door knockers. Then in a later talk I became really fixated on an idea I heard about how volunteer time is an even more precious resource than money.

The penny dropped when the link between those two ideas hit me. When volunteers are doing the organising, the efficiency of the organiser tooling itself becomes critical. So each seemingly tiny bugfix or workflow optimisation in the Zetkin software platform can have counter-intuitively huge upsides for campaign resources.

A lot clicked for me this weekend about the importance of Zetkin and the power of this community. Excited to see what 2026 brings. You can join the next hackathon on December 7th remotely if you're curious about getting involved.