40 rC3 Talk 2020
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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?

  • [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 ?