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# DWeb Calendar Meeting notes

## January 13, 2021

**Agenda**
* Set up calendar accounts / orientation 
* Event info
* About page
    * Who we are
    * What events are included
    * How to submit events
    * Instructions on how to subscribe to the calendar
* Event submissions

**Set up calendar accounts / orientation**
* Nextcloud - Gerben sent out invites and set up Anna and Mai with accounts. Contact Gerben to set up an account if you want access (Zenna, Paul)
* New event info
    * Event title
    * Location - Online
    * Description
        * URL
        * Brief description - change from first person
    * Date with timezone

**About page**
* Who we are
    * Short bios, URL
* What events are included
    * Types
        * Free libre open source projects
        * Decentralization/distribution
        * Community networks
        * Tech for user agency
    * Selectively
        * Digital rights, if covers:
            * Alternative infra
            * Interoperability
        * Hacker conferences
        * Standards meetings re: DWeb protocols
        * blockchain
            * not pure snake oil
        * open data
    * Not included
        * Product launch/pitches - (that are not FLOS)
    * Examples of events
        * FOSDEM - Beyond blockchain
        * MozFest
        * Internet Identity
* How to submit events
* Instructions on how to subscribe to the calendar
* URL– dweb.events (?) - have to look into ownership details

**Async work**:
* Each person write bios - Name, what we are affiliated with, 1 sentence what we work on and URL
* Everyone - populate calendar
* Maybe write description

**Bios**
* Mai Ishikawa Sutton, Associate Producer of DWeb Projects. Mai is an organizer and writer focused on topics related to technology, digital networks and the solidarity economy. https://getdweb.net/

* Carolyn Beer, Community and Events Coordinator with Holochain, Carolyn organizes, moves and converses with others around technology, land and relationship.

* Zenna Fiscella, Project Manager with Scuttlebutt. Enjoys weaving between networks and facilitating spaces for others. Fond of a decentralized future. 

* Gerben, technologist and advocate with Redecentralize.

* Anna, Community at Fluence Network. Decentralized web advocate. https://fluence.network/


## 20 Jan 2021

Agenda:
* Discuss submission guidelines
* Discuss series vs. conference
* Dividing up tasks – how will we maintain the calendar?
    * Write up "how to subscribe"
    * Write "how to submit"
    * Write the intro to Calendar – what is it, for what, by who or how

**Voting mechanism**
Y = yes 
W = whatever the group says
! = I have another proposal 
? = Clarifying question

**Submission Guidelines**
* A form for submitting events
* Matrix for coordinating internally
* Contact/get-in-touch button on site

Follow up actions:
* Zenna and Gerben will link to set up access to the calendar (done)
* ZENNA- Set up the contact email  (done)
    * https://protonmail.com/
        * DWEBEVENTS@protonmail.com
        * Psw: 5jVtj3RsHZ4Kfgc
        * recovery email: zenna.fiscella@gmail.com
    * NEXTCLOUD? Not that easy
* MAI - Draft About Page: What this calendar is description [done!]
* CAROLYN / GERBEN – Draft instructions on suggesting events
    * Set up the form to accept events ([done!](https://calendarcloud.redecentralize.org/apps/forms/r6bniPaN3TSJcAKL))
* GERBEN - DNS to register and set-up (midway)
* EVERYONE – Keep adding events!  (done)
* EVERYONE - write your bio if you haven't already!  (done)
* GERBEN - fix calendar. (done)
* ANNA - Using Matrix call next time  (done)

## 27 Jan 2021

### Agenda:
* Review follow-up actions above
* Review About Page
* Domain
* Promotion
* 

### Nextcloud Forms for suggestions

Carolyn & Gerben tried it; lacks notifications (feature hopefully added soon). Options:
 - have someone regularly check it
 - use another form software/service
 - just let people send emails, no form (also easier to respond)
 - …?

### Domain

Gerben registered dweb.events, under the name of Redecentralize.org

### Promotion
- Twitter
    - Fluence; GetDWeb (IA); Redecentralize; Other decentralized projects
- DWeb Website
- FOSDEM Room
- Redecentralize Digest
- Launch date ??


### Actions:
- GERBEN: Host webpage (ideally editable through nextcloud by all of us!)
    - Cowork on website set-up: Friday Jan 29 11UTC
- CAROLYN: Looking to mail forwarding with Proton mail
- ANNA: Draft promo tweets
- EVERYONE: Populate calendar with events


# About Page draft
> 
> # Welcome to the Decentralized Web (DWeb) Event Calendar!
> 
> Conferences, meetups, and other events related to decentralization of the web.
> 
> 
> ## Scope
> 
> We list events relating to:
> * Decentralization/distribution of digital network infrastructure
> * Peer-to-peer protocols
> * Free/libre/open source projects
> * Community networks
> * Tech for user agency
> 
> We occasionally include events on overlapping/adjacent themes, such as digital rights, open data, blockchains, hacker camps, protocol standards, etc. We will not include events related to product launches or pitches that are not free libre open source projects.
> 
> 
> ## Curators
> 
> This calendar is curated by a few people in the DWeb ecosystem:
> * Anna, Community organizer at [Fluence Network](https://fluence.network/). Decentralized web advocate.
> * Carolyn, Community and Events Coordinator with [Holochain](https://holochain.org/). Carolyn moves and converses with others around technology and land.
> * Gerben, technologist and advocate with [Redecentralize](https://redecentralize.org).
> * Mai, Associate Producer of [DWeb Projects](https://getdweb.net/) for the Internet Archive. Mai is an organizer and writer focused on topics related to technology, digital networks and the solidarity economy.
> * Zenna Fiscella, Project Manager with [Scuttlebutt](https://scuttlebutt.nz/). Enjoys weaving between networks and facilitating spaces for others. Fond of a decentralized future.
> 
> If you would like to suggest an event to be listed, please email us at <dwebevents@protonmail.com>.
> 
> 
> ## See also
> 
> You may also be interested in:
> - [Redecentralize](https://redecentralize.org)
> - [foss.events](https://foss.events/) for free-software conferences
> - [IndieWeb events](https://events.indieweb.org/)
> - [Internet Freedom Festival Calendar of Events](https://internetfreedomfestival.org/wiki/index.php/Calendar_of_Events)



### 30 Jan

Gerben & Anna have set up a static webpage on dweb.events.

Next to-do's:

- Edit website without root access *(done 28Feb)*
- Adding tags to events (divide privacy for user and privacy tools for developers, for example; separating blockahin events)
- CfP calendar embed?
- Add menu with css *(? with just some links to the sections further down in the page?)*
- View as a list instead of calendar, for 2-3 months ahead



### 3 March

Agenda

- Reading our incoming email suggestions
- Some promotion?
- more curators, contributors?
- Webpage improvements, style opinions, …?
    - Editing the web page now possible in nextcloud
- Subscribing to calendar feed
- …other?


#### Subscribing to calendar feed
- Added to Redecentralize digest
- Made a server config to have one redirect/proxy to subscribe easily
    - URL: https://dweb.events/feed.ics → proxies to https://calendarcloud.redecentralize.org/apps/calendar/p/2YXxKRkxgC3QBK4P (or something.)
- Look for another volunteer who can help manage this as an admin

#### Editing webpage in nextcloud
- Server proxies dweb.events/ to index.html in the nextcloud.
- if you login into nextcloud, there's a way (a folder with index.html) to edit the webpage as well
    - >> Changing index.html, it will change the content live
- also dweb.events/stuff proxies to the stuff folder in nextcloud (e.g. `<img src="stuff/logo.png">`)
- Edits:
    - GetDWeb.net
    - Add line "Our group of volunteers check this inbox as often as we can, and recommend a week of lead time for us to list your event. Thanks!"

#### More curators, contributors?
- Invite specific people, not a general call
- People we can think of asking
    - Karissa, Kelsey, ??

#### Improving workflow/reading emails
- Deciding who takes which kinds of events
- How often we check the email → at least weekly?
- Co-work session to check events
- Protonmail doesn't allow for forwarding
    - What email service do we want to use? ⇒ look for another, while using protonmail for the time being.
- Email checking leader
    - March: Carolyn
    - April: Mai
- Next cowork: March 11/12 9am PT / 

#### Promotion

Discuss next time. Tell your friends already, etc.

# WED 31 March 2021

## Agenda
* Go through calendars + adding things
    * https://www.eff.org/event/covid-19-vaccine-verification-infrastructure-local-communities




*…summer and such…*




## Thursday 25 November, 2021

### Agenda
* Intros
* Check-in
* Updates
    * https://publicdata.events/aboutinternet lists us (one day we could be doing that aggregation approach ourselves?)
* What's working / what could be updated or revised
    * Not working: forgetting to add things, struggling to figure out if it is appropriate for calendar
    * What we could try:
        * Possible(?) to build automation from GCal --> Nextcloud
        * Monthly call for coworking on calendar, possible co-organizing
* MozFest
    * Anna has gotten approval from MozFest to run a Web3 track
    * Send in apps to Anna by Monday the 29th
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* Next steps: 
    * Carolyn will make monthly call 

