Welcome on board!

[Claire Coles]

Hi Björn, hello everyone!

thanks so much for your updates. I became a supporter of Polypoly about a
year ago because an old friend told me about you and I became very
interested in the Polypoly mission. I would like to join the online meetup
but am not sure if I am the kind of person you would like to join/ need. I
am not a programmer/ coder/ tech person. I work at an ad tech company in
the Office Management department. I am good at managing and organizing
projects, very good at running events, but not a Scrum Master or anything
fancy like that. Maybe one interesting thing I can offer is an event space
(we have a full setup for speakers (projector, screen, microphones,
seating, drinks) and can fit up to 100 guests. If you ever wanted to have a
meet up I can help organize that and offer a venue near Hauptbahnhof. The
only condition would be that it would have to be open to people who work at
my company too. (Remerge GmbH, we do app-retargeting and UA, so privacy and
all the concerns are something we deal with from the other side, every day.)

Can I still join or would you rather keep the "noise" level low and only
have people on board who can offer more help and wisdom?

Looking forward to hearing from you, won't be offended if you don't need me.

Best wishes to you and all my respect for the mission!
Claire

On Mon, 10 Jul 2023 at 18:11, Björn Balazs <b at lazs.de> wrote:

> So, everyone is a bit shy. No problem :)
>
> This is just a reminder to please fill the nuudel:
>
>   https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de/spIv9zZjTT2aj4EH
>
> I would like to have the first online meeting still this week (currently
> Friday afternoon looks promising). If the time slots offered du not fit,
> but
> are interested, please also fill the nuudel. I will keep adding new time
> slots.
>
> Thanks,
> Björn
>
>
>
> Am Samstag, 8. Juli 2023, 14:28:09 CEST schrieb Björn Balazs:
> > A warm welcome to everyone!
> >
> > I am super happy you are interested in a future where de-centralized
> > personal data storage has become real and joined our initiative here.
> >
> > This initiative is not an official polypoly thing. I am "just" a private
> > person looking for ways to finish what polypoly started. Fortunately most
> > software polypoly produced is Free Software. So even though polypoly is
> in
> > insolvency, all software is available for us and we can continue working
> on
> > and with it.
> >
> > But getting this to work is so much more than just producing software.
> So I
> > am also super happy that in the past weeks several people from the former
> > polypoly universe indicated their will to support our new initiative with
> > their knowledge, network and experience. This will allow us to learn from
> > the past, challenge our ideas and properly plan what we still have to do.
> >
> > Last but not least, we have support from other free software projects. A
> > very special thank you to our friends at KDE for providing this mailing
> > list to us. We are guests here, so please be friendly and respect their
> > code of conduct [1].
> >
> >
> > So, what is the plan now?
> >
> > As a first thing, we have to agree on something like a basic concept of
> how
> > we can get from today to a privacy respecting future. You might want to
> > call it a vision or a mission.
> >
> > And then we have to count if we are enough active people to actually
> start
> > moving.
> >
> > I think the best way to start is to discuss in direct (online) meetings.
> I
> > try to organize these, so please indicate your availability on:
> >
> >   https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de/spIv9zZjTT2aj4EH
> >
> > As we are too many people to find a single time slot for this, I will
> > organize as many of these meetings as needed. Please keep your entry in
> the
> > nuudel updated to support this process. I will keep adding time slots to
> > the nuudel.
> >
> > In these meetings I will present a more concrete idea, which I believe
> has
> > at least a good chance to materialize. But: I want to ask you to bring in
> > your own ideas. My expectation is not, that we will work on "my" idea.
> > Instead, let us now find the best idea / concept we all believe in.
> >
> > Just a reminder: Any concept should not only cover software, but needs to
> > explain the long term situation and contain a plan how to get from now to
> > then.
> >
> > This mail is getting long. I hope sticking to English is ok for
> everyone, I
> > guess it is the most inclusive solution.
> >
> >
> > So, next please:
> > - Update your availability on
> >   https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de/spIv9zZjTT2aj4EH
> > - Say "Hello" on the list
> > - Invite interested people to join us. We are open for everyone. You
> might
> > even want to use social media for that ;)
> >
> >
> > This is going to be a wild ride. I am super happy you are here - we will
> > need many hands and heads. But together we can do the impossible and fix
> > digital privacy.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Björn
> >
> > [1] https://kde.org/code-of-conduct/
>
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