[Festival] IFF's now on Slack!

[stef]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 03:21:44PM +0100, stef wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 03:06:14PM +0100, stef wrote:
> this insensitivity is contra-selective. it drives away the people who are
> relevant, and only attracts the ones without values.
> 
> this feels like a fraternity organising a feminist event. what can go wrong?

to explain and take the edge of a bit:

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 04:04:03PM +0100, stef wrote:
> to me this feels like cointelpro/jtrig tactics. the cointelpro office hires
> some well meaning nice - but uninformed - people to organise an event, while
> silently through contra-selectivity driving away the relevant people and water
> down the whole community its values and efficiency.
> 
> if tools are used and deployed it should be rather the tools that this
> community builds and cares for, this should be the cutting edge (even if i'd
> be as much annoyed by the deployment of retroshare or tox, still it would fit
> much better into the theme, than slack.
> 
> i have to note also that i previously had a discussion also about the iff
> website, where the index.html was 137KB big, yet without JS only a spinner gif
> was shown. 
> 
> se yes, please dear organizers, get some respected people from this community
> on board to advise you, there's lot's of things you can learn, and later
> deploy at other events you organise, learn from us/them.
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