[Coffee-organizers] HOW DID IT GO!! My Updatte

[Wei Fan]

Hi Sandy, thanks for sharing the NYC meeting and the lesson learned! It is
really helpful for us in Amsterdam.

Hi everyone,

For Coffee & Circumvention Amsterdam last week, we also had a nice turn
out. It was our first meeting, so we used the Kaos Amsterdam space to meet
with local digital activists and got their feedback on how to shape CC
Amsterdam.

We discussed potential formats/ activities of CC Amsterdam, and decided
that we want to use the first few meetings to learn from diaspora groups
who are under digital threats by the governments of their home countries,
combined with expert corners to provide digital security assistance. We
also decided on who's doing outreach, who's designing flyers, and potential
venues we could use. We also discussed the security risks for having
diaspora groups at the event, and how we could mitigate that.

We also spent quite a lot of time to learn more about each other.

One Lesson Learned:
Using existing gatherings to gather feedback and interests was quite
helpful for a new event like us. People were quite accommodating and
generous.

Cheers
wei



On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 10:16 PM Sandy Ordonez <
Sandy at internetfreedomfestival.org> wrote:

> Hey Everyone,
>
> How did your Coffee & Circumvention meeting go? We want to know!!! Share
> with us, so we can learn from each other!
>
> For NYC, we had a few snafus, but overall it went super well. We had a
> really good turnout. Just to give you an idea of how diverse it was, we
> had reps from a grassroot group that does alot of work around
> homelessness, wikipedians, digital security trainers, activists from
> Asia and Latin America, aclu folks, lawyers working on freedom of
> speech, and so much more.
>
> One Lesson Learned:
> We forgot to leave time for networking/socializing, which by far has
> been super powerful in the past. Future formats will probably look more
> like this: 20 minutes presentations, leave 20 minutes for Q&A, and then
> the rest of the time to connect people together!
>
> ONE WIN:
> We also had three bilingual IT people approach us about learning how to
> give basic digital security workshops so they can volunteer to help
> folks locally. (Spanish, Arabic) In addition, two old school community
> folks have agreed to have them as aides for a workshop, to help onboard
> them.
>
> Let us know one lesson learned and one win from your city, so we can all
> learn from each other!!
>
> Sandy :)
>
>
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