The group description says:
OFFDEM group members work on the defintion and preparation of an intersectional Off festival in margin of FOSDEM.
#cooperation:offdem is open to people willing to help with this work.
In order to request membership, please send a motivation email to offdem.team@zoethical.com stating your vision for OFFDEM and how you can help with the organization.
I think this process is important so we can avoid misunderstandings on what OFFDEM is about. Since the conference introduction seems not to be clear enough on the purpose – including https://ps.zoethical.org/t/why-offdem/2867/1, maybe it’s time to sort things out and activate the group that so far has shown interest and will take charge of this gathering, and maybe create another group of participants who will inhabit the space in good intelligence.
In practice, people responding here with the will to step up can stay in the OFFDEM group, while the others will be moved to a new group that can only reply to, and see topics. This new group then won’t have access to the organizational emails that will be exchanged with third parties, including our partners.
Note that you can choose to be an active team member during the gathering while muting the group messages if you do not have time to deal with them (e.g., you’re not in Brussels). But it’s important that you keep in mind what’s going on here anyway.
Thoughts?