I love the initiative. Am organizing something similar for (primarily anti-fascist / left movement) orgs, mainly in Scandinavia.
Seeing this workshop rely on proprietary, centralized, privacy disrespecting, fascism-vulnerable services (bit.ly and zoom); makes me unlikely to engage though.
I recommend you check out these efforts, it’ll make it easier for you to practice what I think you’re trying to preach:
Hello. Thanks for the input. We know most of these and TWC is globally under a process of moving towards a self-hosted infrastructure. We have a self-hosted url shortener, but we still have to structure a process to guarantee that the social media teams use them.
For the calls, Zoom is pretty entrenched in our infrastructure, but we plan to eventually replace it. For obvious reasons of hardware performance, we are keeping it as one of the last steps, because we often organize webinars with 100+ people, and our current infrastructure probably wouldn’t handle it with like a jitsi instance or similar.
The security party is also intended as a way to attract people who could bring more expertise on these topics into the infrastructure team and accelerate this transition.
I see, thanks for your nuanced reply. I’m glad to hear you’re in a process of transition, and given your situation I can understand using the tools you’re used to for now.
I’ll share your post to mastodon as well as a matrix group chat where workers’ co-ops, cooperative online service providers, and movement orgs are organizing the digital transition workshop mentioned in my previous comment.
I love the initiative. Am organizing something similar for (primarily anti-fascist / left movement) orgs, mainly in Scandinavia.
Seeing this workshop rely on proprietary, centralized, privacy disrespecting, fascism-vulnerable services (bit.ly and zoom); makes me unlikely to engage though.
I recommend you check out these efforts, it’ll make it easier for you to practice what I think you’re trying to preach:
Geared more toward personal use:
Hello. Thanks for the input. We know most of these and TWC is globally under a process of moving towards a self-hosted infrastructure. We have a self-hosted url shortener, but we still have to structure a process to guarantee that the social media teams use them.
For the calls, Zoom is pretty entrenched in our infrastructure, but we plan to eventually replace it. For obvious reasons of hardware performance, we are keeping it as one of the last steps, because we often organize webinars with 100+ people, and our current infrastructure probably wouldn’t handle it with like a jitsi instance or similar.
The security party is also intended as a way to attract people who could bring more expertise on these topics into the infrastructure team and accelerate this transition.
I see, thanks for your nuanced reply. I’m glad to hear you’re in a process of transition, and given your situation I can understand using the tools you’re used to for now.
I’ll share your post to mastodon as well as a matrix group chat where workers’ co-ops, cooperative online service providers, and movement orgs are organizing the digital transition workshop mentioned in my previous comment.