Open Co-op Webinar 4pm UK time today re: Digital Life Collective
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Members here may be interested in the series of webinars being organised by the Open Co-op if you are not already aware. Clearly there's no shortage of online events available currently, and some of us may already be struggling with webinar-fatigue, but these stand out for me as being highly relevant to what this group is all about. Today - April 30th there is one focussing on the Digital Life Collective. (Full disclosure: I'm the current chair of the Digital Life Collective, so forgive the plug). The Digital Life Collective is a UK-registered co-operative society, with several hundred members from around the world. Its focus has been to bring together people with insight and knowledge about how we use and relate to technology, about how important it is that we can trust the technology that we do use, and how we might bring about a situation where we can have agency and trust with respect to the tech we use.
As part of the work of the Collective, it has brought together some useful tools that help to enable rich conversations to flow within the membership. We've since opened those tools up for others to use, on a purely experimental and non-commercial basis, partly as a way to bring other groups and collectives into the space so that we can work on how we can enable communications not only within groups, but between them.
This cross-fertilisation of information and ecosystem-thinking is, I believe, critically important in the creation of wider co-operation at scale, breaking down factions and repairing fragmentation , and exploring the massive untapped potential of what we might call the "adjacent possible".
Anyway, if you'd like to find out a bit more, the webinar is free, you can register for it here: https://open.coop/events/open-2020-webinar-digital-life-collective/, and it starts at 4pm today (Thursday 30th April).
Danyl Strype Mon 8 Jun 2020 12:31AM
I agree that documentation would be really helpful. If we had any paid staff we could add this to their to-do list.
If you don't have internal documentation, your volunteers will be wasting a lot of time trying to figure out which team member knows the information they need. to fix or extend things, or reverse-engineering your systems trying to figure it out from scratch. If you do have internal documentation, that can easily become open documentation with a quick check to make sure it doesn't contain any sensitive info (eg system passwords, personal data), which is better stored separately anyway.
Danyl Strype Thu 30 Apr 2020 12:27PM
Hi Graham, I really would like to learn more about DLC, but 4pm GMT is
4am when I am, and I'm going to be no use to anyone at that time of the
morning. If any recordings, slides, transcripts, or other materials are
preserved from the sessions, please do post links here. I'll be keen to
have a browse in the morning.
Graham Thu 30 Apr 2020 12:51PM
I'm sure that Oli will record the session.
Wael Al-Saad Thu 30 Apr 2020 4:47PM
I am glad to have the chance to connect with your work Graham .. and I hope one day we will have a technology the 99% can use to cooperate and build a better world.
Graham Thu 30 Apr 2020 5:15PM
Great to see you on the call earlier Wael. Interested to learn more about your co-op.
Christopher Fri 1 May 2020 6:32PM
missed it. Sorry I was doing two other things at the same time.
Lynn Foster · Mon 8 Jun 2020 12:05AM
@Danyl Strype no I knew it was based on Mattermost, no worries.