Tea & Networking/2021-12-17

Notes from the human-tech meetup, pre-lockdown edition (17th December 2021, BuurtBoerderij)

17th December 2021, BuurtBoerderij meetup

tl;dr => next meetup: 17th January 2022 => place: TBD (please be the one to organise it!) => there’s a new mailing list!

What happened at 2nd meetup of the not-yet-named initiative to keep in touch with each other: people who care about the social impacts of the Internet technologies. There were 5 of us: Tessel, Donna, Karla, HP & Vesna. We’ve talked about meta-topics of the meetup itself: why are we doing it, how to improve it & what logistics are there / are needed. We’ve shared our resources: interesting talks, events, podcasts, projects. We’ve drank teas & hot chocolate & had some nuts ;-) We’ve sat outside , looking at the sheep nearby. We were lucky with the larger-scale timing: the next day, “total” lockdown was announced! We were unlucky with the smaller-scale timing: by the time I arrived, t he kitchen was closed & I could not order real “borrel” food!

Reasons for this series of meet-ups:

• keeping in touch: social contact is precious by itself!
• keeping each other informed about our projects, creating cross-connections
• supporting each other: sharing offers & needs

TOPICS: Internet, technologies & impact on society: rights, justice, ethics, sustainability, diversity…

Present & represented organisations: Network Democratie, RIPE NCC, UnCiv, TechInc, /etc , Greenhost .

Projects & events mentioned:

• (shameless plug first) Vesna’s talks & articles about “Technical Communities’ Resilience during Pandemic”
  • September 2021, NLNOG: https://youtu.be/Ycrl7NI8sOY
  • November 2021, NLUUG : https://youtu.be/2HstoqAFn9g
  • Summary Blog Post @ NetNod 15.12.2021: https://www.netnod.se/blog/technical-communities-resilience-during-covid-19-pandemic

• Podcasts to check out : Evening Rocket & The Guilty Feminist

• Featured presentations:
  • Soera Nas @ NLUUG:
  • Corine Cath @ RIPE83
  • Becky’s PhD defence

• Other interesting past events
  • BitWorden conf
  • IGF : https://labs.ripe.net/author/gergana_petrova/igf-2021-liveblog/
  • Big Brother Award by Bits of Freedom

• Upcoming events:
  • CCC (27-30. December 2021)
  • FOSDEM (February 2022)
  • Public Spaces” (May 2022)
  • RIPE84 (May 2022)