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Shout out to #Irish peeps, or those based in #Ireland.
I have long intended to host a #platformcoop meetup in Ireland - but with my existing commitments, I've never had the brain space.
Anyway, I still think it's something that should happen and I can contribute to finding speakers and venues (I believe I have both).
If anyone is interested in making it happen - join the #platformcoop slack https://ioo.coop/connect/ + look for the #platform_coop_ireland channel
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@samtoland @giocomai @flgnk @cathal I'm Irish, but I'm not living in Ireland now. Sounds like a good idea, I wish you the best of luck :)
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@samtoland
...maybe I missunderstand the intention of #plattformcoop.
But isn't it to take back the control of plattforms and distribute the power under a coop model?
proprietary software like slack is somewhat the opposide.
I'm anyway not from that region, but seeing slack in use would already make myself to wanting not join.
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@paulfree14 every tool has a purpose.
A lot of the people we're trying to reach are people who are not fully conscious of #platformcoops or the issues you (rightly) raise.
There's a cost to adopting a new platform, and these peeps need to learn more before doing so - so if they work with Slack already (loads of tech workers do already) it makes it easy to bring them into the convo.
I would hope once an organising groups comes to together, they could migrate somewhere else.
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@paulfree14 In my experience you have to get the balance right between what are now mainstream platforms and new (often co-op) alternatives.
If you use non-mainstream platforms for cases were your target audience are not familiar with them, you end out losing out on a lot of potentially interested people.
The key for me... use it as an entry point, and then shift convos, data etc. over to better platforms.
Get me? :)
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@samtoland
I underatand the underlying point that it's usefull to show similiarties in your own culture towards your target group.
But I can't make any sense of it why that needs to be through slack.
Slack is quite a new phenomen. Just a few years ago basicly no one knew about. But that didn't minimized their potential of becoming widly adopted. It also didn't minamized that ppl started to use it for their first time
ppl are used to in-browser chats.
choose any
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@samtoland
* I've been once with a group that choosed for very similiar reasons proprietary software.
I've tried multible times to shift them to free software. But as the value for it wasn't embeded into the community culture while building it up nobody cared about.
And now 500 hanging out in slack talking about free culture but don't care to much to practice it by thenselfs.
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I think you make the point well. Though I do think that you are underestimating how easy it is get people to adopt an additional tool.
Do a #socialcoop matrix get set up in the end? You're making me reconsider using the platformcoop slack for organising this event. @mayel ?
social.coop is a coop-run corner of the fediverse, a cooperative and transparent approach to operating a social platform. We are currently closed to new memberships while we improve our internal processes and policies, and plan to re-open to new folks when that work is complete. [9/2/2018]
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@ebel @cathal @flgnk @giocomai