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# OurNetworks Workshop Planning

## For Reference
- https://ournetworks.ca conference website
- Relevant Meeting Notes
    - 
    - [OurNetworks Planning 2020-08-16](/V67KwqEwQcmoVtqyYmV2oA?both)
    - [OurNetworks Planning 2020-08-02](/vT1_0DJ6TwqTCLoX-OsX7A?both)
    - [Disorientations Weekly 2020-07-28](/EZCPCXAyTIWRXZGxdQFUjA?both)
    - [Disorientations Weekly 2020-07-21](/CQACZMgTTQ2qWSPNOGaWEQ)
    - [Disorientations Weekly 2020-07-16](/FNeBcQqMSnioWavqncsFBQ)
- [Presentation (in progress!)](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1hkHo7UnfgR8BtjdYD7q-a_ehkyAf99f_yX5eJwR45oY/edit?usp=sharing)

## Timeline

**Our workshop is currently scheduled for Friday 9/11 at 12pm EST.**

OurNetworks Conference:
September 8–13, 2020

Online, Distributed
Based out of UTC-4 from America/Toronto

Proposed Working Sessions:

(Next meeting for ON Sunday 8/16?)
1. Sunday 8/2 4pm-7pm EST
3. Tues 8/11 7pm EST
4. Tues 8/25 7pm EST
5. Tues 9/1 7pm EST

(At 7/21 meeting we discussed alternating weekly meetings as work sessions on OurNetworks and imagining the future of the site -- these dates can change as needed but wanted to put a rough schedule out there!)


## Format/Ideas

- [Our Networks Proposal: Disorientations Archive-a-thon](/jsDNeyQAQP2w5mC4k1ahsw)

Casey's thought on this is to do a "Research-a-thon" "Archive-a-thon" or "Edit-a-thon"

https://littlesis.org/toolkit

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/a-feminist-edit-a-thon-seeks-to-reshape-wikipedia
https://www.artandfeminism.org

https://archivesforblacklives.wordpress.com/2018/10/08/community-archives-partnership-with-media-mobilizing-project/

Another idea would be to do a sorta digital whiteboarding session about taxonomy/vocabulary for activist publications.

Asked Omeka about their resources: https://forum.omeka.org/t/learning-omeka-s-beginner-workshops-guides/11493

## Todo

### 2020-07-21

- [x] Casey ask OurNetworks "How many people tend to show up? How do you deal with that on Zoom? More info on who's attending."
- [ ] Casey respond to Sharon Leon about Omeka workshop materials/collab
- [ ] Casey schedule working sessions

## Relevant Meeting Notes

### [Disorientations Weekly 2020-07-16](/FNeBcQqMSnioWavqncsFBQ)

> - **Our Networks** - [10m? Casey]
>     - https://ournetworks.ca
>     - https://github.com/ournetworks/2020-submissions/issues/23
>     - Another opportunity Casey came across called "Our Networks" conference based in Canada about different approaches to technology, networks, platforms. This project has to do with organizing, technology (our discussion last time re: this can be a learning group). Casey submitted a proposal for this conference and accepted it, it might not be as selective, just being part of a lineup of people working on similar projects.
>     - Changed date of conference: online on Sept. 8th-13th.
>     - Casey proposed: we are building informal archive of disos, we'll do an archive-a-thon, learning what is a diso, decentralized forms of resistance. Contribute back to the archive/institutional knowledge, make new links
>     - Also could be a tutorial for Omeka and archiving tools, practicing digital archiving, tagging, uploading, etc.
>     - Presentation, interactive, discussion
>     - Contextualize what diso guides are, setting up informal archives, overview about zine librarianship and ethical archiving (project STAND)
>     - Short working session to start doing some tasks around enriching the archive, discussion of ideas + approaches, coming up with your own ideas
>     - Would we be interested in doing this? Not attached to this proposal, open to doing whatever people would find fun :)
>     - Emma: Deadline for accepting?
>         - Casey: Will ask
>     - Emma: Not sure feeling qualified to give a workshop, having just learned, would be cool on doing Omeka portion. Would feel more comfortable if we're actually in touch with Diso groups.
>     - Casey: can speak more on that portion, can also develop the Omeka portion; we can get away from the ideas that we aren't experts and can't do it (!!). want to be sensitive to not speaking for people/on behalf of their work, but also not feeling imposter about it, i want you/us to feel like we can do the stuff. It's not really a skills thing, necessarily, this is a thing people do in different ways/in different contexts(?) our archiving work is different/separate. The opportunity is also to share this more broadly, don't know that they exist in the colleges people went to. Realizing it's an unintentinoally networked effort. Others wish they had this! 
>     - Jason: it's important to be aware of what we can do and what's a good use of time. Disorientation guides in themselves aren't difficult, the difficult part is the organizing part + getting people together, finding people, knowing what topics are useful to talk about. Not necessarily a skills gap, but helpful to get input from people who have worked on them. 
>     - Matt: agree -- campus didn't have one and would have found it useful! Not sure if we're in a position expertise wise to facilitate making that process easier (of putting a diso out there), to the effect of making it more mainstream, or the project taking a direction that more facilitates publishing as opposed to archiving.
>     - Casey: student activists won't necessarily be attending, mostly technologists/art-technology with interest in decentralized and mesh technologies. people might take something away about the open source and distributedness, starting a fast and loose archive. we don't have to speak to the diso process. The byproducts of what we're doing might be of interest + relate that to experience with schools.
>     - Matt: the idea of the decntralized internet has been floating around, goals in distribution of content
>     - Emma: would feel comfortable accepting, tbd depending on availability but could be comfortable framing as a workshop on archiving and distributed tools.

### [Disorientations Weekly 2020-07-21](/CQACZMgTTQ2qWSPNOGaWEQ)

> - **OurNetworks** - [15m]
>     - Start a doc for this?
>         - Joanne is in
>         - How many people tend to show up? How do you deal with that on Zoom?
>         - Make something together, a zine?
>         - Maintenance/archival care
>         - If we're creating activities or access -- what are those interactions? And dedicate some time to creating?
>     - Group Bio
>         - Put something together
>     - Honoraria
>     - Format
>         - [Reached out to Omeka](https://forum.omeka.org/t/learning-omeka-s-beginner-workshops-guides/11493) and found other materials on YouTube

