Hi everyone!!! I'm a student from Spain helping with the migration of LT. Feel free to ask me anything in either language!
Saludos, Gonzalo On Fri, Aug 31, 2018, 02:23 Yosem Companys <ycompa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Stanford Liberationtech friends, > > How are you? I hope that you and your families are all doing well and that > you're all enjoying the summer (or the winter, depending on your location)! > > Please allow me to introduce you to Gonzalo (cc'ed), who has been working > with the Stanford Program on Liberation Technology over the summer to help > us spinoff Stanford Liberationtech as an independent organization. If you > have yet to meet Gonzalo, please don't be shy to say "hello." > > Below are the recommendations that you provided in terms of the next steps > for a newly independent Liberationtech: > > - *Corporate Governance: Fiscal Sponsorship, NOT Legal Status*. Most > of you recommended that we not incorporate legally as a 501(c)3 at this > time. Instead, you recommended that we use a fiscal sponsor instead. A > number of fiscal sponsors were proposed including Creative Commons; the > Electronic Frontier Foundation; Freedom House; the Free Software > Foundation; the Information Ethics and Equity Institute; Mozilla; Oasis; > the Open Source Institute; the Public Sphere Project; the Puerto Rico > Science, Technology, and Research Trust; the Renewable Freedom Foundation > in Germany; Software Freedom Conservancy; and Wikimedia. There is also the > Tides Foundation. The advantage of fiscal sponsors is that they can accept > charitable contributions on behalf of Liberationtech and take care of the > legal and accounting requirements needed to maintain the organization, > thereby freeing Liberationtech to pursue its vision and mission. We have > decided to find fiscal sponsors for different legal jurisdictions to ensure > that we have a global presence. [Down the line, the Sustainable Economies > Law Center was proposed as an organization to help Liberationtech > incorporate as a 501(c)3.] > - *Vision*. To organize the world's information about technology for > social good, especially privacy and security. > - *Mission*. To create and support a community of practice around > technology for social good that incorporates privacy and security by > design. > - *Hosting Service*. Most of you expressed concerns about hosting in > the U.S. and asked that Liberationtech use the most privacy- and > security-friendly legal jurisdiction instead. Most of you also > recommended Greenhost. > - *Website Design and Development*. Some of you kindly offered to work > on a pro bono basis to design and develop the Liberationtech website. > Others suggested contacting groups such as the Agile Collective, Aspiration > Technologies, CoTech, Digital Life Collective, Equalit.ie, and Greenhost > for these services. What should the website have? You asked that we keep > the Liberationtech website simple. Beyond a basic description and a list of > the board of advisers, you asked that we do the following: > - *Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS)*. Most of you asked that we build a > site that is as simple as possible so that it may be viewed even by > those > who have slow devices or weak bandwidth. > - *Just a mailing list, please*. Most of you also asked that we > only use open-source mailing list software that has been around for a > long > time for convenience (i.e., you get the email in your inbox) or security > reasons and to make it easier for any list subscriber to download the > list > or port it from one device to another. (A minority of you asked > Liberationtech to move to Matrix.org or Discourse.org, but the majority > eschewed using any closed platform or anything more complex than a > mailing > list.) > - *Let me create my own list, please*. Many of you asked that we > allow list subscribers to create their own lists around specific > subjects, > whether by chapter (read more below), geography, sector, or topic. For > example, some of you asked that Calls for Papers (CfPs), jobs, and > announcements be moved to separate mailing lists. > - *Mirror it*. Many of you asked that we mirror the site at a > number of locations for security reasons. > - *Incubation*. A number of you asked that Liberationtech continue to > vet technology for social good projects as we have long done on the mailing > list. Some of you asked that Liberationtech work to raise funds to become > an incubator of technology for social good, where the funds would go to > support the development of projects based on the ideas the community likes > the most. > - *Directory*. Some of you suggested that we create a wiki (or > similar) with tips, good practices, tools, and apps for secure > communication and digital privacy, along with a list of the organizations > and platforms that work in the technology for social good space. > - *Funding*. Some of you suggested that Liberationtech contact > foundations such as Omidyar and the Open Technology Fund. Others suggested > that Liberationtech engage in crowdfunding. Yet others suggested charging a > yearly fee for people to create their own Liberationtech chapters in > geographies around the world. > > Assuming that no one has a strong objection to any of the recommendations > above, we -- and that includes all of you who have volunteered your > services to help us spinoff Liberationtech -- will begin the process of > implementation and migration. > > Any questions? Anything we overlooked? Please let Gonzalo or me know. > > Thanks, > Yosem >
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