Online open tech meetups relevant to OAE folks

Future for All are inviting online participation in their 2020 congress, from 25-30 August: https://www.zukunftfueralle.jetzt/en/congress/

Open and Sustainable Engineering Hack Chat this Wednesday, hosted byJoshua Pearce: https://hackaday.io/event/173637-open-and-sustainable-engineering-hack-cha

• DWeb meetup (monthly?) - hosted by the Internet Archive (using Zoom 😖). Next meetup starts at 16:30 UTC, on September 22. Topic is escaping "Big Tech": https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dweb-meetup-if-big-tech-is-toxic-how-do-we-build-something-better-tickets-120479309859

Thanks for keeping us posted @Danyl Strype ;) feel free to point folks using zoom towards https://www.org.meet.coop/ :)

Good idea. I suggested that in the matrix room where I saw this event announced. In this case, it seems that meet.coop folks are in already talking to Archive about using their service for smaller internal meetings, and working up to large public meetups over time.

I kind of abandoned this thread (and pretty much everything except baseline survival) over the past couple of years, due to suffering a complete life collapse at the end of 2020/ start of 2021. I'd love to see it refurbished and brought up-to-date. If anyone has any info about upcoming online events - either one-offs or regular meetups - please share!

Dear Daniel,

Sorry to hear about the issues you have been facing, and feel free to share, privately if necessary, what it was about.

This thread as you see, has not been very active.

I would say the P2P Foundation is largely dormant as an organization at this time, though the various individuals who were involved have continued their activities.

A brief word about my own situation. After my cancellation in 2018, and the attacks on my reputation, livelihood and family, and then the isolation of the Covid years, I had to re-evaluate my politics and options. It is really from this year that I am fully back in the game, politically, psychologically and spiritually re-aligned and with exciting funded projects that are central to the challenges of the time, as I'm working on global catastrophic risk and with a network nation on mutual coordination economics. My interest in technically decentralized infrastructures is less than it was because I have experienced that the rigidification and polarization in the political field has rendered some decentralized infrastructures less free than even the centralized ones. For example, yes, Facebook is very censorious and Twitter used to be, but Mastodon is likely even more, as I have seen good friends like Matthew Slats and Jem Bendell cancelled and banned for sharing very moderate peer-reviewed scientific materials. Sure you can always argue you can go to another federated source, but they largely share the current neo-McCarthyism; and if you go to the other side, there is more toleration of pluralism, but also less engagement around crucial ecological and social issues.

So in the personal and political engagement field, I am looking for reciprocity; in politics for combining emancipatory efforts with radical respect for pluralism and dissent, and in the cultural sphere with moderation (no race hierarchisation and segregation, etc..)

I won't be very active here, but I continue to intensively update the wiki every day. Here attached my latest article to give you an idea what I am working on.

@Michel Bauwens The comment you replied to here was intended for another group, and was posted here in error, due to a Loomio bug that has now been fixed. I will reply to your comment in a new thread in the P2PF group.

EDIT: Actually I decided it was best to email you directly. Let me know here if you don't receive an email from me by the end of the week (email delivery from smaller email services has been a bit patchy of late).

sorry for the error, we are now corresponding via email as well <g>

There's a group of us coming together to put on an online conference about the fediverse, modelled on the 2020 ActivityPub Conference, and a series of monthly online meetups modelled on Open Tech Will Save us. We'd love to have a few more people join the steering group, especially if that would diversify the team. We could also benefit from volunteers to take on a range of discrete tasks, such as helping with outreach and promotion. If you or anyone you know may be willing to help, please get in touch