[Festival] IFF's now on Slack!

[Aral Balkan]

I don’t think anyone should feel upset by this thread. If anything, we should all be embracing it as it highlights the core problem we’re faced with: while we have tools for technically-savvy people like ourselves, we lack independent, free/open alternatives for a mainstream audience. Alternatives that are convenient, easy-to-use, and (heck, one can dream), even delightful :) Basically, what we’re lacking is a *usable* public sphere. That’s what we must construct.


I wrote something about this last year that might help frame the conversation a bit:


https://ar.al/notes/spyware-vs-spyware/



(PS. I’m not sure I remember how I got added to all this or how I can help but happy to if I can.) :)


Aral
--
Aral Balkanhttps://ar.al



> On Oct 27, 2015, at 3:01 PM, James Vasile <james at openitp.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.
> <snip>
> 
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ghserv.net/pipermail/festival/attachments/20151027/3e76f47e/attachment-0001.html>