[Festival] IFF's now on Slack!

[James Vasile]

By design, the Festival is about including diverse population.  From the
start, we tried to think about how to reach people we normally miss.
That always meant having many ways to reach people-- email, twitter,
hangouts, IRC, etc.  We've cared about ideology but not at the expense
of reaching people less steeped in our usual modes of communication.
That meant we used phones (not Red Phone), sent unencrypted emails, used
non-free software services like Twitter (instead of Statusnet) and
chatted on Hangouts.  

We maintained communication across all our channels and that allowed us
to reach a broader and more diverse audience in Valencia than if we'd
insisted on forcing people to learn new tools with aged UI before they
could talk to us.  Whenever we could, we took conversations to modes
that matched our values best, but we tried to always do that in an
inclusive way.  That meant including the people who don't already use
our tools.

I am not a Slack user.  I am willing to give Pepe the benefit of the
doubt here, though, and if he wants to add Slack to the list of
channels, I'm willing to roll with it for the sake of avoiding a bike
shed and skipping to the good stuff-- actually talking about the
conference.

Pepe Borrás <pepe at workether.com> writes:
> *
>
> “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]
>
>
> [1] https://twitter.com/internetff*
>
> -- 
> Pepe Borrás, Internet Freedom Festival Director
> Twitter: @InternetFF | www.internetfreedomfestival.org
> Twitter: @PepeBorras | www.pepeborras.com
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