// 42-IT-LABS / COMMUNITY
Tech, given freely, where it does the most good.
A meaningful share of our time goes to nonprofits, community organizations, and individuals who can't otherwise afford the help. The work is quiet, unglamorous, and — by our metric — among the most worthwhile we do.
What we typically help with
Basic IT enablement. Security hygiene — MFA, backups, patching, account hardening. Website and tooling fixes. Targeted open-source improvements. Occasional one-off forensic or incident-response help when the situation warrants it.
Pro-bono support is, by nature, limited and may not include ongoing maintenance. We try to leave organizations more self-sufficient than we found them.
§ HOW TO REQUEST
A short email is plenty.
We reply if it fits capacity and scope. If not, we'll often suggest a path forward anyway.
subject: 42 IT Labs — community request 1) Who are you / what does the organization do? 2) What's the issue, and how is it affecting the work? 3) Urgency — is anything actively broken or at risk? 4) Any constraints we should know about (access, budget, deadlines)? 5) If it's security-related: what happened, when, and what evidence exists?