People Links

People Links are a series of monthly talks addressed to MF/PL members on political and technical issues relevant for them (open for other people as well, which potentially might bring more members).

Analía, a staff member of APC and also a MF/PL volunteer, will coordinate the initiative.

The initial proposal is to do these talks monthly, the first Thursday of each month at 6 PM East time.

A preliminary list of issues would be:

• Violence against women and the internet, possible impacts on free speech, and measures that ISPs might take.
• Surveillance online and what to do to counteract it
• Open source and intellectual property (example: what happened to YesLab)
• Race
• Control panel
• Tickets

We're aiming at one-hour talks, with the following structure

• Eventual technical adjustments and waiting for late arrivals (5 minutes)
• Brief intro about MF/PL (5 minutes)
• Presenter's talk (15 minutes)
• Q&A (20 minutes)
• Wrap up (5 minutes)

An initial invitation will be sent through the membership list, and interested people would be added to a People LInks list.

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