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

[Gus Narea]

Hello everybody,

I'm glad to hear that the NY and Amsterdam teams did so well at the first
event, and that the events have led to further work offline.

Here's our update from the London team:

We used a format similar to the one used by the Amsterdam team, in that we
wanted to use the first event to shape C&C London and get to know the
community in London and their interests. We used a meeting room kindly
provided by GreenNet.

We got 27 RSVPs, including 4 last-minute RSVPs hours before the event, but
unfortunately there were only 6 of us there (half of us were organisers).
We think this happened because we didn't have an agenda with specific
topics to cover.

Apart from getting to know each other and the projects we work on, we also
did a brainstorming activity to understand the topics that people in the
room would like to see covered in the future, and we got leads on some
really interesting speakers that we could get in the future. We'll soon be
circulating a very short survey amongst people in the C&C London mailing
list to gather their feedback on those topics.

Cheers,

Gus.

On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 20:16, 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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