Ask HN: How to use your hacker skills for good?
TLDR: Where to find organizations/companies that recruit hackers (as volunteers or payed employees), to develop products (hardware/software) to help others around the world or the local community where it is based?
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. 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! Do you mean hacker or cracker? :-) for the second option there are limitless use cases :)