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Aan: Lars-Magnus Skog, tigrutigru
CC: webmind, hello, ☮ elf Pavlik ☮, gabriella.coleman, y, ioptio, admin, realitygaps, Vesna Manojlovic, k, squatconf
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Re fundraising:
Obviously since this is *squat* conf we cannot reasonably either
accept a (public) sponsor or charge for tickets. The squat people
at the venue might want to get some money for the venue but we need
to discuss with them first. If they don't demand payment, we should
give them some kind of gift when leaving which might also cost some
money. Beyond that I don't forsee any significant costs which cannot
be engineered around.
For collecting funds I'd prefer passing a hat around quietly than
having a public fundraiser or selling tickets.

Thanks,
Caleb

On 19/08/15 16:41, Lars-Magnus Skog wrote:
> Including ryan.taylor@??? into the conversation :)
>
> @Caleb Hmm, didn't we setup a "proper" mail list for Squatconf?
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> On 2015-08-19 16:29, tigrutigru@??? wrote:
>> Practical question - do we have any specific fundraising scheme?
>> I heard no obvious sponsorship, which is a good idea - but a
>> fundraiser in btc for example would be a good idea.
>>
>>
>>> On 19 Aug 2015, at 12:30 pm, Caleb James DeLisle <cjd@???> wrote:
>>>
>>> [Fixed a few mail addresses I had wrong and added a few people to the list]
>>>
>>> Error Correction:
>>> Re:publica will be May 2 to May 4, 2016 - therefore Saturday April 30 looks like the best day for
>>> official lectures (with workshops and self-organized sessions going into later days).
>>>
>>> Women participants:
>>> Thanks Vesna for bringing it up (I always feel awkward starting this conversation). IMO the
>>> demographic breakdown of the Open Source community is unbalanced to a horrifying extent and the
>>> power we wield over shaping of the future further compounds the problem. I really want to attend
>>> a session about what is happening in the girl hacker scene, the guerilla knitting is a very
>>> interesting example of knowledge sharing and collaborative projects whose customs and ethics are
>>> completely unknown to me and probably many others. I would also like to see some exploration of
>>> the possible reasons for the discrepency, especially since theoretically "anyone with a computer
>>> can learn to do Open Source". Finally I would really love to hear what I as a guy can do to help
>>> and also what types of help would be disempowering or otherwise unhelpful. If you or someone you
>>> know would be interested in holding a squatconf session like this, you have at least one
>>> guaranteed attendee.
>>>
>>> Venue Coordination:
>>> Lars Gierth has tentitively volunteered to be our Berlin person for coordination of a venue and
>>> handling of local emergencies if they should arrise. Lets hope we don't end up having our venue
>>> evicted a week before the conference this time !
>>>
>>> Is anyone interested in starting an etherpad to document the things we have sofar discussed?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Caleb
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 17/08/15 22:29, Vesna Manojlovic wrote:
>>>> Hi again,
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 17 Aug 2015, Caleb James DeLisle wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> We had our little squatconf meeting and we got some vague consensus that we will probably
>>>>> try to be in Berlin and squat the timeslot before re:publica. Re:publica runs from May 5 to 7
>>>>> and we were thinking about May 1 and 2 (weekend) plus further workshops and partying over
>>>>> 3 and 4 and possibly more.
>>>>> Is this a timeslot when you would be available ?
>>>>
>>>> 1st of May is a public holiday in Germany -- May Day, the day of celebrating struggle for workers rights.
>>>>
>>>> In addition to being non-working day, usually there are some protests organized agaist globalization & neo-liberalism... so maybe not the best day to overlap with our conference? People will be either consuming & celebrating their day off, or rioting in another way...
>>>>
>>>>> Objectives:
>>>>> We had a conversation about what is squatconf, some thoughts which were brought up include:
>>>>> * We have relative consensus that we do not want to make technology the center of the
>>>>> conference. It will become a tech conference because of who we are but we want to explicitly
>>>>> push on art, sociology, anthropology, community building and creating really nice atmosphere
>>>>> for enjoying ourselves - so it is clear that we will want to hear from academics, journalists
>>>>> artists and musicians as much if not more than technical folks.
>>>>
>>>> sounds great!
>>>>
>>>> As I said in antoehr message, I can mainly contribute by corss-connects;
>>>> and once we have an announcement, spread it to my contacts / lists.
>>>>
>>>> One of my main goals would be to achieve increased participation of women, on all levels: as organisers, "programme committee", participants, speakers, audience, (s)heroes... Let's see if we get to 50%! ;-)
>>>>
>>>> More later,
>>>> Vesna
>>>>
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