[Festival] IFF's now on Slack!

[spideralex]

On 27.10.2015 11:27, holger krekel wrote:
> Hello Pepe, all,
>
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 17:33 -0400, Pepe Borrás wrote:
>> *
>>
>> “It’s a beautiful place full of interesting peoples to talk with [tears
>> of joy]”
>>
>>
>> *The *Internet Freedom Festival Slack has arrived!
>>
>>
>> The #community channel is the hangout spot for the entire IFF community.
>> We would like to see many of you over there, so go ahead and request
>> your inviteby replying to this email with the subject “I want to be a
>> Slacker”
>>
>>
>> Not a big fan of Slack?Worry not! Important announcements will be made
>> through all our different channels, including this mailing list and our
>> Twitter account [1]
> Is it a good idea to tie the "internet freedom" community to Slack
> Technologies, a large for-profit highly venture-capital driven company
> in silicon valley?  And to help their marketing by advising people
> to shout "i want to be a slacker"?  Centralized easy-to-surveil 
> communication systems are the problem, not the solution in my view.
>
> If you and the people who organized the "circumvention tech festival"
> don't feel they can come up with a better idea for communication
> infrastructure there is a big problem right there.  Have you explored
> other possibilities?  If so, for what reasons did you out outrule them?
>
> best,
> holger
+ 1
completely agree with the input from Holger, the CTF should also be
about using alternative, non commercial, privacy oriented tools and
technologies for coordination and reach out

Cheers
>
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