Dear lmemsm (that's all I could come up with - I guess I am not a good investigator ;-) )! Yes! [initial email was way too long...] So we have 5 months to prepare. Software choice is one issue, event organization (and interaction) is another. I'll skip software choices for now. Being a grass root event we probably need to let each team decide what they want to present (topic - time - language). That could mean more than 1 streaming channel necessary if we offer the streaming capabilities. Also I feel there are basic topics which should roll all over the day such as introduction to FOSS, How to start, communities nearby, etc but this is only one opinion. We could do bi-weekly (as in twice a month) IRC meetings with people interested to organize something and see if anything comes out of it. I feel it would be faster than exchanging on such a prolific topic by email, as least to kick start it. What do you (as in everybody on the list) say? Thank you. Fred On 5/11/20 7:07 PM, LM wrote:
Was just wondering when the SFD wiki would be updated for 2020. Seems like a good time to discuss SFD 2020 since it was just mentioned in the Document Freedom Day thread.
Just attended a couple of Linux, FLOSS related meetings using Jitsi. I think it would be great this year to host SFD 2020 virtually instead of at our local library. We might even get a bigger turn out. I wasn't impressed with the ability to share slides over Jitsi especially if someone's running it from a mobile device with low bandwidth. However, I have some info/slides I put together on the web for a local tech conference. Could supply the web links for viewing information and slides and have the meeting for SFD via Jitsi. Think it would be fun.
With World Tai Chi Day, everyone did Tai Chi from home at 10 AM in there particular time zone. Think it could be really great if any groups doing SFD this year virtually could schedule their sessions at different times (especially if they're already in different time zones) so that people could attend and participate in multiple virtual events. Would also be wonderful to have one page on the SFD wiki that gives times and virtual locations for all the virtual events.
I'd also like to come up with some ideas for reaching out to people who may not have the latest and greatest hardware or who have low resource or older computers or maybe just mobile devices. Any ideas on that front would be greatly appreciated.
Think now would be a great time to start planning for SFD 2020.
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