LibrePlanet (online) March 14-15, 2020

Salt · February 18, 2020, 4:00am

I will be presenting at LibrePlanet this year!

This is the FSF’s official conference in Boston, MA.

@smichel17 will also be there and it would be great to do a Birds of a Feather gathering!

Official website: https://libreplanet.org/2020/
Event wiki: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Conference/2020

micky · February 19, 2020, 6:25pm

I will be presenting also!! Not sure when my session is yet.

Salt · February 20, 2020, 1:46am

Look forward to meeting you @micky!

alignwaivers · February 25, 2020, 12:40am

To attempt to synthesize the points in today’s meeting
These were the focal talking points for Snowdrift at LibrePlanet

Goals: Inspire the concept of better funding (potentially an order of a magnitude better) for project/s that people are working on, and convey the importance of Snowdrift.coop and that we need concrete forms of help (dev in particular)

A generic outline for pitch (TLDR: recruitment & status updates)

Intro to snowdrift / get on board with concept / mechanism
Status update: “We’re very close to live, you can actually pledge with real money but the UX is not great yet. - We have a new design with better UX, the only thing we’re waiting on to announce widely is implementing the design”
Recruitment: “Are you too busy to help out the project on some level?” (rather than “do you have time to help?” which yields more unenthusiastic response - ways for people to support:

Join discourse instance and participate in the (online) community (also can jump in to weekly meeting)
Contribute - front-end devs especially! but there are lots of other tasks
Become a team member! We have a team who will be around to support / actively participate (weekly meetings, discourse, IRC, etc.)

@micky @Salt @smichel17 Gonna tag you all since you’ll be in attendance. (dont forget to have fun )

wolftune · February 25, 2020, 11:44pm

Some talks that seem relevant for those going:

https://libreplanet.org/2020/speakers/#2721 Platform co-op presentation from @micky (a Director on our Board)
https://libreplanet.org/2020/speakers/#2692 on the business model of everything being rented instead of owned
https://libreplanet.org/2020/speakers/#2680 community building (relevant to our own efforts)
https://libreplanet.org/2020/speakers/#3031 on Creative Commons and free culture
https://libreplanet.org/2020/speakers/#2748 on the issues of FLO and other political issues, especially as we care about other issues and must engage with these contentious topics

Side note: @Salt is doing this not-quite-so-relevant but fun talk on FLO and bicycles: https://libreplanet.org/2020/speakers/#2686

smichel17 · March 6, 2020, 11:05pm

Given the spread of covid19, I’m considering whether I ought to go to Libreplanet (in person; I will definitely still attend remotely). I’ve loved it every year I go, and I’m really looking forward to meeting Mickey in person, but at the same time it feels a little irresponsible. In some ways I’m half-hoping that conference gets postponed or canceled and spares me the decision

Salt · March 8, 2020, 5:27pm

I’ve been asked by the conference whether my intention is still to go, and at the moment it is, but I’m monitoring the situation closely.

wolftune · March 10, 2020, 2:04am

Conference is cancelled in person, it will be online instead. Our blog post:

https://blog.snowdrift.coop/libreplanet-2020/

smichel17 · March 30, 2020, 10:00pm

Retrospective

Online-only LibrePlanet worked pretty well, especially given the short notice. Several members of the Snowdrift.coop team attended, including myself, @wolftune, and @Salt. Both @Salt and @micky were both able to deliver their talks. Afterwards, we held a small Birds of a Feather “meet-and-greet” over in our irc/matrix rooms.

micky · April 7, 2020, 5:08pm

Someday… How are you doing? Staying safe is premium these days. Looking forward to meeting in the non-infected future!