Notes from the last biweekly call on the 28th of April
After cycling through a few different tools and technical problems with the current very much under development now.edgeryders call tool we settled on a jitsi call for now.
The call started with a discussion of the planned webinar “own your cloud” on the 8th of May and the learning for the planning of future events from the very positive reactions and signup rate between @erik_lohnroth and @mariaeuler.
Later @mattias joined the call and we discussed his experiences at a Cryptoparty event he went to the previous friday and what projects cryptoparty does in general and how initiatives could be connected:
- last time they showed them how to set up their own jitsi servers
- Did similar for passwords
After Mattias talked about his personal journey into open source tech and through multiple organizations Erik and Mattias started discussing how to change 100 year old culture moving from proprietary to open source. BOth these structures as well as personal changes from corporate to opensource is very important for both of them.
Mattias was also interested in how to run communities through edgeryders. Future conversations as well as this 📗 Community Management Manual can give insites here.
Erik offers to help Mattias and others interested in Sweden to connect with key figures in the open source community in sweden.
Especially with the NGO Mattias is working with some collaboration with eriks connections and edgeryders involved involved could be interesting.
The discussion also touched again on the need for change in perception of open source as it happened in the last 10 years and how similar would need to happen for crypto currencies:
“People think there is a conflict between open source and earning money
10 years ago people thought that open source is for pirates
It will be the same with the crypto economy . Until it becomes a fundamental factor in life.”
Finally we discussed if we could team up with Cryptoparties for another webinar. Since they already did an event on password safety and the plan was to do something similar next in the same way as the “own your cloud” event.