{"id":508,"date":"2017-04-19T21:14:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T21:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/achangeiscoming.net\/?p=508"},"modified":"2017-04-19T21:14:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T21:14:38","slug":"grassroots-activism-open-source-coming-soon-open-source-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2017\/04\/19\/grassroots-activism-open-source-coming-soon-open-source-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Grassroots activism and open source &#8211; coming soon, at Open Source Bridge!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"graf graf--h3\"><\/h3>\n<figure class=\"graf graf--figure graf--layoutOutsetLeft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"graf-image alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-images-1.medium.com\/max\/1091\/0*0U1SaUVbggDXKjzj.png\" alt=\"Open Source Bridge logo\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" data-image-id=\"0*0U1SaUVbggDXKjzj.png\" data-width=\"352\" data-height=\"352\" data-external-src=\"http:\/\/achangeiscoming.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/04\/osbridge.png\" \/>w00t! I\u2019m delighted to announce that my proposal for a Open Source Bridge session on <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/opensourcebridge.org\/proposals\/2030\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-href=\"http:\/\/opensourcebridge.org\/proposals\/2030\">Grassroots activism is hard. Can open source help?<\/a> has been accepted! Thanks to <a class=\"markup--user markup--p-user\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/u\/870aa70db456\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/u\/870aa70db456\" data-anchor-type=\"2\" data-user-id=\"870aa70db456\" data-action-value=\"870aa70db456\" data-action=\"show-user-card\" data-action-type=\"hover\">Aditi Juneja,<\/a> <a class=\"markup--user markup--p-user\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/u\/237f75fe5e61\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/u\/237f75fe5e61\" data-anchor-type=\"2\" data-user-id=\"237f75fe5e61\" data-action-value=\"237f75fe5e61\" data-action=\"show-user-card\" data-action-type=\"hover\">Harry Waisbren,<\/a> and <a class=\"markup--user markup--p-user\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/u\/9145449db47c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/u\/9145449db47c\" data-anchor-type=\"2\" data-user-id=\"9145449db47c\" data-action-value=\"9145449db47c\" data-action=\"show-user-card\" data-action-type=\"hover\">Chris Benson<\/a> for the feedback on earlier versions.<\/figure>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">Here\u2019s the abstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"graf graf--blockquote\"><p><em>Grassroots activists have to deal with many challenges\u200a\u2014\u200aincluding the tools they\u2019re using. Sounds like a great opportunity for open source! This session will survey progressive and transpartisan grassroots activists\u2019 needs and today\u2019s solutions (including techniques that work for explicitly intersectional groups), look at some existing open-source offerings and how they could evolve to better meet grassroots activists\u2019 needs, and identify future directions that could be even more impactful<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\"><a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/opensourcebridge.org\/proposals\/2030\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-href=\"http:\/\/opensourcebridge.org\/proposals\/2030\">You can read the whole proposal here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\"><a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/opensourcebridge.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-href=\"http:\/\/opensourcebridge.org\/\">Open Source Bridge<\/a> is \u201cthe conference for open source citizens\u201d, and one one of my favorite conferences. There are lots of other great proposals\u200a (I&#8217;m especially looking forward to the one on <a href=\"http:\/\/opensourcebridge.org\/proposals\/2082\">Federating with Trouble<\/a> by the toot.cat admins), \u200aso by all means check out, if you\u2019re interested in open source software or diversity in technology. The conference is from June 20\u201323; session my tentatively scheduled for Thursday, June 22 at 10 a.m..<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">Between now and then, I\u2019ll be surveying the landscape today\u200a\u2014\u200aand documenting details on the wiki (an approach that worked extremely well for the session Tammarrian Rogers and I did last year on <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/opensourcebridge.org\/wiki\/Supporting_diversity_with_a_new_approach_to_software\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-href=\"http:\/\/opensourcebridge.org\/wiki\/Supporting_diversity_with_a_new_approach_to_software\">Supporting Diversity with a New Approach to Software<\/a>). For example:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"postList\">\n<li class=\"graf graf--li\">Describe grassroots activist groups\u2019 typical needs<\/li>\n<li class=\"graf graf--li\">Look at the kinds of solutions in use today<\/li>\n<li class=\"graf graf--li\">Highlight techniques from projects like <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--li-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.resistancemanual.org\/Resistance_Manual_Home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.resistancemanual.org\/Resistance_Manual_Home\">Resistance Manual<\/a> that take an explicitly intersectional focus<\/li>\n<li class=\"graf graf--li\">Look at some existing open-source offerings, how they can help today, and how they could evolve to better meet grassroots activists\u2019 needs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">If you\u2019ve got any thoughts on those, please share\u200a\u2014\u200ahere, <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jdp23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jdp23\">on Twitter<\/a>, or on Mastodon, where I\u2019m <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/toot.cat\/@jdp23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-href=\"http:\/\/toot.cat\/@jdp23\">@jdp23@toot.cat<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tTentatively scheduled for June 22.  \t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[25,88,113,253,439],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-computing","tag-activism","tag-conferences","tag-diversity","tag-open-source","tag-osbridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}