User:Becha/climate-justice-in-tech-events-calendar
Contents
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://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
Project
Edithon
- Place: Technologia Incognita hackerspace, Amsterdam (Louwesweg 1)
- collaborative meetup / hackathon / discussion about events calendars & Climate Justice in Tech
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
File:november 2023 - federated events calendar for climate justice events grant funding proposal.pdf