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Draft notes from the April 1 townhall: https://fediforum.org/2025-04/
Thanks everybody who reached out since, and the many extremely good one-on-one and small group conversations with ideas for the next iteration of FediForum. Keep them coming!
Planned next steps: another townhall likely next week, and a rescheduled & adapted FediForum in May.
Refund status: refunds for everybody who asked so far have been initiated. Don't know how long it takes until it shows up on your card statements, that's out of our hands. We are refunding ticket price + fees, although we are eating the cost of the fees.
Thanks all of you who wrote in saying they don't want a refund now, but instead want it applied to future tickets or "to rebuild", and all who said they will come back.
Your support and continued belief in FediForum is very much appreciated!!
Apparently that request takes internal review at Humanitix. We'll try for another day or two if needed, so hang on ...
Refund status: currently attempting to convince Humanitix, our registration platform, to refund the entire ticket price including (not excluding) their fees.
Should we be unsuccessful, and figure out a way to do this, we will cover their fees. We want to make sure you are made whole if you requested a refund.
We will publish notes, do some individual follow-ups and reconvene, likely based on specific subject areas that have emerged as areas that need work and that people are interested in helping with.
As several people said, we have daunting problems all around in the world today, the Fediverse and Open Social Web have a big role to play, we need to support each other and move forward together, and today's discussion, as difficult as it was, was an great example for how to do this.
Thank you!!!
We just concluded our 90min townhall / roundtable discussion about the future of FediForum and the broader issues around it that we had instead of the regular FediForum unconference today.
I want to thank the about 45-50 people who came and participated for their many thoughtful comments, and in particular the many statements of support and offers to help building a better FediForum and Fediverse going forward.
As one attendee said: "This discussion is the FediForum we needed to have today."
Thanks @tommi !
Ok people, Johannes here.
Listen up.
@YKantRachelRead Good idea. Let us quote from our code of conduct, very first sentence:
"FediForum is committed to providing a welcoming and harassment-free environment for participants of all races, gender and trans statuses, sexual orientations, physical abilities, physical appearances, and beliefs."
Is that what you had in mind?
Organizational update: FediForum, this time, is organized entirely by @j12t . The previous co-organizer is no longer involved.
Johannes' previous announcement said "transitioning out" because there were a lot of accounts to transfer and settings to change and responsibilities to be moved so the transition could not be immediate. However, we have been scrambling and believe it is now complete.
(It is possible we missed something. If so, please point this out, gently if possible :-))
Matthias Pfefferle (@pfefferle) is coming to #FediForum and wants to talk about:
Long form content on the social web
Join us Tuesday and Wednesday? https://fediforum.org
@mcorbettwilson sorry that was a mistake to have the google meet link. You will find the personalized link to Qiqo in your email search for notifications@qiqochat.com
@timnitGebru You are aware that Kaliya is departing? https://j12t.social/@j12t/114251819679169870
@zicklag.dev is coming to #FediForum and wants to talk about:
open data & schema systems: leaf ( entity-component ), lexicon, and rdf
“federation” through local-first tech & data synchronization
Join us this week Tue and Wed, April 1-2, online?
More info and registration: https://fediforum.org
Anna Johansson (@Magnificenth) is coming to #FediForum and wants to talk about:
New business models, monetization tools for creators
Join us Tuesday and Wednesday, April 1-2, online?
Info and registration: https://fediforum.org
Jon Pincus (@jdp23.neuromatch.social) is coming to #FediForum with a long list of topics:
Liberatory technology that doesn’t reproduce oppression and harms of today’s big tech social networks; mutual aid and organizing; moderation, including countering propaganda and disinformation; consent-based social networking; “free fediverses”, opposing surveillance capitalism; synergies with the atmosphere
Join us Tue and Wed, April 1-2, online? Info and registration: https://fediforum.org
Rebecca Sieber (@resieguen) is coming to #FediForum and wants to talk about:
Legal and ethical topics, trust & safety, developing policy demands, onboarding in the artist/music scene
Join us this Tuesday and Wednesday, April 1-2, online?
Info and registration: https://fediforum.org
Michael Sprague (https://sez.us/user/mespr) is coming to #FediForum and wants to talk about:
Standards, healthy collaboration and the business models that promote it. identity, provenance and trust.
Join us Tuesday and Wednesday this coming week, online? https://fediforum.org
Davide Eynard (@mala) is coming to #FediForum and wants to talk about:
Local-first, privacy-preserving algorithms (search, ranking, recos)
Join us next week, online? More info and registration: https://fediforum.org/
