Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of technologists_congress

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Mar 10, 2010, 12:36:22 AM (15 years ago)

Author:

Mallory Knodel

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-A Call for a Techie Congress at the US Social Forum
+== Overview: A Proposal ==
+Global Crisis: reduce cost of travel
+International Convergence with a focus on women and the global south
+Ongoing project, building
+Support social forum infrastructure, similar movement events
+Next year, Next stage: Use techie network to lead and stage an international movement towards problem-solving global issues on various scales with simultaneous collaborative moments.
+Currently, update on what is moving.
+
+== Needs ==
+
+== First Convergence, Paris Meeting (April 1-3, 2010) ==
+Principles: Collaborative Democracy Workshop
+Vision: Strategies for use of technology in any social [forum] movement
+Action: Skill-share, project exchange, and building together
+
+== Second Convergence, Thematic Forum on Alternatives in Mexico (May 2-4, 2010) ==
+Seminar
+
+== Third Convergence, USSF Techie Congress: Workshop Proposal ==
+Politically progressive techies from all over the United States and from
+several countries of the world will gather together to develop a set of
+"principles" describing our responsibilities and rights to our movement
+and the responsibilities and rights it has towards us.
+
+We will then distribute the principles to everyone at the Social Forum
+and propose them to the USSF's People's Assembly for ratification. On
+that basis, we will begin to build the kind of relationships inside the
+movement that will move us all forward.
+
+== A Call for a Techie Congress at the US Social Forum ==
 
 Never has our work been more important.
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 After that Congress, we will distribute the principles to everyone at the Social Forum and propose them to the USSF's People's Assembly for ratification. On that basis, we will begin to build the kind of relationships inside the movement that will move us all forward.
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