Open Data AI Climate Justice Calendar

Open Data AI Climate Justice Calendar
Date	2023/03/06
Time	1800-2300
Location	TechInc
Type	Hackathon
Contact	User:Becha

This page has lead to several new pages in 2024, namely:

• Collection of event calendars https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/events-calendars-collections
• Sustainability in Tech events list: https://wiki.techinc.nl/Sustainability#Events
• project (proposal) of curating events calendar "Climate Justice in Tech" https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/climate-justice-in-tech-events-calendar
• participating in projects of creating federated protocol for events calendars https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/federated-events-calendars

Intro

As a part of "Open Data for AI" by Open Knowledge Foundation , we are organizing collaborative meetup / hackathon / discussion about: curating and creating shared calendar of Climate Justice events.

Info

• Date: Monday, 6 March 2023
• Time: 18:00 - 21:00
• Place: Technologia Incognita hackerspace, Amsterdam (Louwesweg 1)

Shared calendar of events

Background story: at the DRxCJ workshop in Berlin in November 2022, "we" realised that a shared calendar of events would help us to facilitate cooperation between movements & organisations -- we could learn from each other, exchange experiences, and meet more often.

Challenges

This is not an easy problem to solve, because...

• coordinating humans is a hard job
• "search" technology is a multibillion $ business...
• multiplication of standards -> https://xkcd.com/927/
• Not-invented-here factor

Example Calendars

Existing calendars : global

- ripe.net/events (& https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/calendar) 
- nsrc.net/calendar (Education Outreach and Training (EOT) Calendar for Internet Development) 
- pch.net/calendar (Calendar of Internet Governance Meetings in 2023) 
- https://radar.squat.net 
- https://events.rebellion.global  
- https://foss.events/
- https://gettogether.community 
- 

Local:

- https://amsterdamalternative.nl/agenda
- https://amsterdam.jekuntmeer.nl/sociale-kaart?s-kaart=1&s-answer%5B7%5D=0&s-search=satirius&admin-limit=
- https://buurtgroen020.nl
- https://extinctionrebellion.nl/events/page/2/
- https://mobilize.berlin/

Projected

Requirements

- funded by ethical sources (to be agreed later on what does that mean) 
- FLOSS Free/Libre Software, Open Source  (not proprietary)
 * that means other groups can also use this software!  
- Open Data  
 * there's no need to log in or have an account to read the calendar 
- global 
- federated! 
 * information is added once, then automatically shared with multiple other calendars
 * hosted on multiple "instances" (like Mastodon) 
- searchable 
- sortable 
- open for contributions AND moderated 
- easy to "parse" / export by API / RSS / (nnn?) 
- show past events 
- add review? 
- show all this on the (OpenStreet) map 
- find a way to ensure maintenance in the future 
- if possible: extend existing software, instead of "reinventing the wheel" 
- nice to have: export to ISC calendar entries 
- nice to have: subscribe to it by mailing list (for specific categories / tags) 
- --nice to have: hosted on a memorable (short) URL  =>  - isoc.org?   apc.net?--

Open Data Sources

- radar.squat.net
- ccc events 
- meetup.org
- eventbrite
- Wikipedia
- personal collections , e.g. https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/events2023
- https://climatecultures.net/get-involved/receive-updates/ 
- https://www.digitalrights.community/events

Existing software

- https://framagit.org/framasoft/mobilizon
- LibrEvents https://libr.events/
- https://libr.events/mobilizon-poster/ 
- https://github.com/GetTogetherComm/GetTogether
- FRAB? 

Federated

• https://info.graz.social/projects/ Event Federation Plugin for WordPress , funded by NLNETLABS
• https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/events-in-activitypub/999
• ActivityPub for Interoperable Messaging (ietf draft) https://bifurcation.github.io/mimi-aim/draft-barnes-mimi-aim.html

• https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-barnes-mimi-identity-arch/

• https://www.w3.org/wiki/ActivityPub/Primer
• https://spritely.institute/news/introducing-ocapn-interoperable-capabilities-over-the-network.html

Possible platforms

- wikipedia
- Fediverse? 
- https://joinmobilizon.org/en/

Participants

Potential

• DRxCJ mailing list;
• E-impact list
• HSNL
• UnCiv

Registered

• Shane (canceled)
• Lwenn (canceled)
• Arnd
• Theo
• Vesna

Project

• What needs to be done:
  • Programming
  • Fund-raising
  • Project management
• Who should do it:
  • Programming: Developer(s)
  • Fund-raising: Admin person
  • Project management: Admin person
• Phases: How long: How much money (estimate)
  • Fund-raising / 3 months / 1000 € per month (or part-time pro-rata) AND percentage!
  • Project management / 6 months , part time / 1000 € per month
  • Programming / 3 months / 3000 € per month
  • Maintenance: 1000 per month = 12000 per year!
  • Total : 30000 € to start with; plus 12000 every year
• Request offers from potential contractors & ask them about "ethical funding"
  • Amsterdam Alternative (Theo)
  • sr.ht (Drew / Vesna)
  • nsrc (Sebastian & Philip / Vesna)
  • LibreEvents (Vecna / Vesna)
  • DRxCJ mailing list (Vesna)
  • hackathon at IETF Prage (Vesna)
  • unknown: radar, mobilizone, PCH...
• Possible places/people to ask for funds: Jane, Fiona, CPF,

Ongoing

• hackathon: 8.8. -> October 2023 https://nylas.devpost.com/?utm_source=devpost&utm_medium=alert&utm_campaign=20230804_allinterest

Projected event budget

• contribution for the rent of space: 100€
• cleaning fee: 60€
• food & drinks : 50-90€ (depends on # people)
• transport reimbursement for people traveling to Amsterdam: 30-120€
• hosting of the calendar data for a year: 12*5€ = 60€
• t-shirts: 100€
• Total ~~440€

Actual Expenses

• contribution for the rent of space: 50€
• cleaning fee: 30€
• food & drinks : 20€
• Total= 100€

OpenMeetup.org

Goal: Federated Events Calendar

July 2023:

• https://OpenMeetup.org
• Signal Group after NotACamp TBD: https://cryptpad.fr/code/#/2/code/edit/2ky-MS-kYiGm26dHUjm1derA/

Possible Grants

• https://greenscreen.network/en/catalyst-fund/
• https://wiki.techinc.nl/MeshNet#Funding

File:november 2023 - federated events calendar for climate justice events grant funding proposal.pdf