Snowdrift.coop @snowdrift@social.coop

Snowdrift.coop work lately has been busy but all behind-the-scenes, little to show yet publicly. Update from this week: successful transfer of all our servers to OSUOSL https://osuosl.org after 18 months of on/off planning. Closing our AWS account. This enables the Snowdrift team to not worry about sysadmin issues and focus solely on getting launched!

Snowdrift.coop will have a few representatives (a couple of whom are giving talks on tangential subjects) at #LibrePlanet2020

May also have a chance for some meetup, let us know if you'll be there and want to connect!

Blog post about Snowdrift.coop being at upcoming #SeaGL2019

https://blog.snowdrift.coop/seagl-2019/

Links to talks, mentions the update that we'll have a table @SeaGL for the first time!

Several team members from Snowdrift.coop will be speaking at @SeaGL #SeaGL2019 in November

More details on our event posting at our forum: https://community.snowdrift.coop/t/seagl-seattle-wa-november-15-16-2019/1372

Thanks to partnership with @OSUOSLhttps://osuosl.org we are finally getting our core servers and systems more solid and reliable!

Dealing with those things has been a major distraction and obstacle (costing us months to years even). We're now going to have that stuff in place as a stronger foundation for the rest of our development and organizing!

(Longer blog post coming once the process is farther along)

Snowdrift.coop will have a full booth at the upcoming LinuxFest NW April 26-28 in Bellingham, WA #lfnw2019

https://blog.snowdrift.coop/lfnw-2019/

Come hear about progress! We're also recruiting new volunteers and starting formal discussions with the first outside projects!

New blog post (finally, a year late) announcing our new forum: https://blog.snowdrift.coop/new-forum

New homepage with fancy animated video is now live at https://snowdrift.coop

We only spent about 2 years of (on and off) work on it, so don't expect perfection. ;)

Hopefully, we'll get around to writing blog post about it sometime soon.

Maybe it's unrealistic to see excitement about a ToS or Privacy Policy but we've worked to make the best, human-readable, ethical new policies:

- https://snowdrift.coop/terms

- https://snowdrift.coop/privacy

Primary driver of the overhaul is announcing our new forum (also highly adjusted to be the best it can be):

https://community.snowdrift.coop

All connected policies including Code of Conduct have been overhauled.

https://community.snowdrift.coop/guidelines

Feedback always welcome. Coming soon: blog posts, more announcements…

some Snowdrift.coop team members and supporters will be at #CLSummit 2018, this weekend in Portland and also stopping by the expo hall of #OSCON next week.

If you're going and want to meet up, let us know.

Hi all, Snowdrift.coop is an in-progress funding platform for public goods. We used to use @snowdriftcoop but that instance of GNU Social is dead.

Follow us here. Lots of announcements coming in the future.

#introduction #platformcoop #flo #crowdfunding