rC3 Talk 2020

Schedule

• DATETIME: [DAY - TIME - TIMEZONE]
• DURATION: ???
  • Talk: ?
  • Q&A: ?
• TRACK: 'Ethics, Society and Politics'
• LINK: [Our BBB, or other?]

Title Ideas

• #indymediaback: Whats this about? - An Intro, Q&A and RFC
• Rise Up Indymedia
• Indymedia - Re-awakening grassroots journalism
• ...

Structure - Content Ideas/ Topics

Where relevant, tag items in this list with the [section] they should/could appear in in the structure outlined below.

• [Intro] Bit about Hamish, his background, and involvement in indymedia from the start.

• [Indymedia] Quick bit of history - maybe use OxfordIMC as example

  • The rise and the subsequent fall of the global movement
  • Nod the the previous indymedia solidarity from last congress (https://de.indymedia.org/node/58846)
  • Nod to the fact that some IMC's have survived
    • our focus is about how to increase involvement across the board

• [OMN] What is this?

  • (compared to IMC's (IMCN)?)
  • Using existing federated services, or patching other services to make use of ActPub/RSS
  • To encourage and re-empower the versatility of web-sites and content, while facilitating inter-site communication
    • No Silo's
    • All sites can still communicate and share content (ActPub, RSS and similar protocols)
  • To encourage decentralisation
  • To facilitate spreading of news, knowledge and ideas - outside of hierarchies of control
  • Improve redundancy, making censorship/removal of data more difficult
  • Not to create new service(s), but to "retrofit" and/or develop tools to enable this "nothingnew"
    • Epicyon got new features to work as an IMC
    • ActivityPub plugin for wordpress
    • Create a new front end for pleroma - focussed on IMC usage
    • Using specific hashtags on ActPub services, or anything that produces RSS feed
      • e.g. tagging Mastodon toots with #hs2IMC when talking about UK's destructive rail construction

• [IndymediaBack] How to revive

  • Our focus is on bringing back and empowering grassroots journalism within the OMN
    • particularly within the growing decentralised fediverse
  • Using existing protocols
    • ActivityPub and RSS (odata?)
  • Using existing tools as much as possible
    • peertube
    • epicyon
    • mastodon, pleroma, ...
    • wordpress
    • Sebastians project
    • ...

• [?] Do we have any functioning "Alice/Bob" examples?

  • [THESE WOULD IDEALLY BE SLIDES/IMAGES]
  • Activists
  • Campaigners
  • Photographers
  • Personal bloggers
  • Journalists
  • ...
  • [SEE: https://unite.openworlds.info/Open-Media-Network/Open-Media-Network/wiki/user-storys these need an update]

• [Call for Involvement]

  • Participants feel free to comment, ask questions and suggest ideas for involvement
  • Some suggestions for how people may want to get invovled:
    • you may want to get invovled with the organisational process
      • help with the gitea repos customisation (https://unite.openworlds.info/)
      • help with sysadmin, etc
      • help to re-establish network of existing and new IMC's
    • you may want to adapt your own code
      • to make use of ActPub, or output RSS/Atom feed(s)
    • you may want to adapt someone elses code
    • you may want to write new tools/plugins
      • e.g. ActPub for wordpress (some existing attempts have gone quiet)
    • you may want to do social outreach
      • encourage people to step away from silo's like f***book
      • create your own IMC, or join an existing one (and tell the network about it)
      • start using relevant #hashtags on various "platforms" to publish your news
    • you may want to help figure out funding
      • specifically for OMN-related projects
        • server costs
        • domain costs
        • writing code
      • we believe IMC's should be able to function without funding

• [Wrap Up/ Outro]

  • ...

Timing of Talk

Outline here the sections of the talk, and roughly how long each should take. This is not set in stone, but should be a good guideline.

Section	Time
Intro	< 3 mins
Indymedia	< 7 mins ?
OMN	~ 5 mins ?
Call for involvement	?
(Other?)	?
Wrap-up/ Outro	< 2 mins ?