"never underestimate the power of crowds" ...
I also think the same, such that I'm trying to help out people organizing action items in the LibrePlanet.org wiki, see the "Action items" page: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Action_items There is more than this list up there (for some reason, Semantic MediaWiki didn't show them all in that table), so just look for the subpages of "Action items": https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Action_items/ I like the concept of LibrePlanet.org wiki because it allows free/libre software activists to get organized on subjects that do not concern only one project, but instead can be interesting for various people. Warning: From this point on, this might turn out to be off-topic. If you want to discuss this with me, please open another topic. Also, for those who are unemployed like I am, there's no need to spend money buying web hosting for a free/libre software event, specially if one fears that your local event won't receive enough free/libre-software-related speakers ("how do you tell a free/libre one from the rest?" Just send (or specify in the event page) that they have to fill a form to categorize each software *and functional data* that they will mention or present as either free/libre or not (don't put open source), and so, when reviewing the submission, you can measure how much percentage of the talk/speech is compromised by reading the title, subtitle and long description). In 2015, I tried to organize a local free/libre software event, I asked my mother to cover half of the cost associated with "renting"/"hiring" the space, its seats and media resources inside, while the other part of the same cost were covered by a mate of mine. It turned out that free/libre software activism here in Brazil is way much desynchronized with the worldwide activism as I would have thought in the beginning of my studies about the free/libre software movement (you all know that there are some exceptional good free/libre software activists that live in Brazil, and for your information: most of them *are indeed* free/libre software activists). We had four 30min slots available, and we (I and my mate) indeed received submissions, but all of them weren't approved due to presence of non-[free/libre] software in their category of free/libre software. As a result, we were left with an unused space and resources (for which we never went due to frustration), a total of 500 BRL (Brazilian Real) as prejudice/loss, had to write an angry Diaspora publication on how disappointing it was to see Brazil in such a de-synchrony with the rest of the movement, and at least I *am still having* to endure the pessimist and non-supportive look and speech of my mother, even when I look away, she's always speaking against me for the others (I have silently caught here doing so once at least). Nowadays, whenever I see a Brazilian event or person that calls himself/herself/itself as a "free/libre software"-related one, I tend to consider it not as such unless I have proof.
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