Lio and I, members of a librehosting collective, Kompot, from Ljubljana, Slovenia are coming again this year.
I’m looking forward to this year’s discussions.
Funding is a recurring problem, framing it as necessity of public funds for public infrastructure is a great first step. How do we address the public? How many programmers (in terms of a workforce that brings actual benefit to the said public) do we need? What are the needs in the first place and how much are we paying for IT services? Why is it so hard to get the numbers?
If I may digress a bit, the question of the relation between trust and transparency brings back photos of a protest at the opening of the “new” Center Rog “cultural center” in Ljubljana. Following a 27 million € investment to renovate a giant squatted bike factory, following a forceful eviction and theft of occupants’ property:
That’s a fine document caricature of 100% transparency and 0% trust.
A recurring problem of free software and why it’s deemed and often termed alternative is accessibility, in one way or another. Industry giants have much better access to public funds.
The private sector is not the only problematic sector of course.
Anyway I don’t think I can concretise a good proposal for now so I’m sharing these thoughts.
Since we’re coming to guix days before OFFDEM, I can come help prepare the venue and/or the opening party.
We would happily document the outcomes with willing participants for a radio report.
Edit:
Finally got around to posting a yunohost app idea I had a while back to their forum: amazon block proposal
Why should the whole internet be interconnected? When should it and when not? Simply blocking of tech giants can save time, money and attention.
A lot of people are and more so will be leaving tw/fb, that is another track that may be worth pursuing. Growing the critical fediverse out of today’s problems?