Notices by maloki 🍵 (maloki@elekk.xyz), page 2

Ohhh, @cassolotl followed up with a really good post about #FOSS and #Capitalism

On FOSS as a capitalism-like structure -- Or, Time is Money

https://medium.com/@cassolotl/on-foss-as-a-capitalism-like-structure-baf89973c6a1

TL;DR #ForkOffTogether Update #3

@Laurelai , @PaulFerence and I, will not become the defacto leaders, we're putting measurements in place to avoid this.

We are only trying to use the survey to invite everyone to a meeting, to start up an organization of the meeting's choice.

Another survey, together with more information, is coming out tomorrow to help us rough draft one of the documents we will suggest at the meeting.

Everyone will get a vote.

Additional info that had gotten lost:
The survey was written with help of the following people:
@sargoth
@Laurelai
@noiob
@noelle

And @PaulFerence , who was also the person who reached out to me asking if I was interested in forking.

That’s why I made the survey, because One person reached out, and showed that they would be interested in forking.

This is why there’s no website, no one-pager explaining what #ForkOffTogether is, because I don’t know yet, but primarily because it is not my place to say.

I have not made a discord server because it is not my decision.

I have not up and forked a code base, because it is not my decision

It’s a long and slow process, and we’re basing it on Swedish Formalities when it comes to creating not-for-organisations, as that is what I have experience with. However, at the meeting the people who are there, or who have sent in feedback, get a say in what happens from there, what kind of organization you will build together, and what types of meetings you will hold.

All we are doing right now, is creating a suggested way, by showing you with one first meeting.

What I can say is, we are trying to prepare a meeting, so we can lay the foundations together for what we want to happen, We the community who want to #ForkOffTogether.

Tomorrow another survey is going out, to help us make a very rough drafts of some documents that you all will get to give feedback on before that first meeting, and after.

We are using a discord Conversation with only us 3.
We are trying to get it right, by taking community over code. I realize it doesn’t feel transparent at this time, but it’s difficult to talk about what we’re doing, when it will sound like we’re deciding what this will turn into.

Ironically, seemed like we were making all the decisions without transparency anyways.

After some people reached out I realized some stuff got lost, so to clear it up:
What I am currently doing with the help of @Laurelai and @PaulFerence will not make us the defacto leaders of whatever #ForkOffTogether turns into. All we are doing is trying to make something out of the survey for everyone who showed interest.

If you still think that #TrendingHashtags were the ONLY reason to #ForkOffTogether, I highly recommend you read this medium article, if you are willing to have your mind changed:

"Two months ago it was a “people you might like to follow” feature, before that it was whether CWs should hide sensitive content when a post is embedded elsewhere on the internet, and in the past couple of days it was a “trending tags” feature."

https://medium.com/@cassolotl/i-left-mastodon-yesterday-4c5796b0f548

#ForkOff #ForkOn

This work may seem slow, but we're trying to get it right from the very start.

I don't want to over share as it's also a process of iterations.

What I can share is that, we will send out some sort of official invitation when this current work is done. And then we'll have a meeting, and go from there.

Be patient, and save your thoughts and ideas somewhere, we'll need them.

#ForkOffTogether #ForkOn

Here are all the relevant links (Updated!):

What is #ForkOffTogether (Updated hashtag from only #ForkOff)?
https://elekk.xyz/@maloki/100138750035893344

Is Forking hostile? No, it's Self- and community care:
https://elekk.xyz/@maloki/100139110948500738

Summary of what went down Yday
https://elekk.xyz/@maloki/100141071475864283

Keep Calm and #ForkOn

Here are all the relevant links:

What is #ForkOffTogether (Updated hashtag from only #ForkOff)?
https://elekk.xyz/@maloki/100138750035893344

Is Forking hostile? No, it's Self- and community care:
https://elekk.xyz/@maloki/100138945927744676

Summary of what went down Yday
https://elekk.xyz/@maloki/100141071475864283

Keep Calm and #ForkOn

@dewb I find it funny that people react to that we are going to #ForkOffTogether, after we've been explicitly told to #ForkOff as if it's a hostile move from our part.

People feel disenfranchised. And all I'm doing is testing the waters.

Actually going to bed now.

Take care everyone. And remember #ForkOff with pride?! Woah....

Maybe it's only fitting that #ForkOff is happening during Pride Month?

The Survey already have all the basis we need covered, btw.

You can still ask friends to elope together, I mean #ForkOff together with you, by asking them to fill out the survey.

https://goo.gl/forms/lZb2R1lEGFf6RIGg2

#JustForkIt #OpenSource #Together

Having been up all night, working on this labour of love.

You're all fantastic! I'm so happy to #ForkOff together with you 💞

So here we are, #ForkOff-ing

This is for the community, who feel like their voice doesn't matter because they can't contribute code.

This is even for Gargron, because he wont have to deal with us nagging him anymore.

You do you, and we'll do us.

This isn't a hostile action, this is self-care.

#SelfCare

I also had a WHOLE OTHER survey in my head, for Main Masto development. For the people who responded with No to if they wanted to #ForkOff.

I had already planned out what I'd be working on over the summer. Finding out what the needs of the community was, was high on my todo list, so was governance.

Then I remembered, Main Masto isn't my responsibility anymore. If Eugen really wanted to know what the community wants and needs, he can make a thorough survey himself.

I have never had so many people tell me to "Just fork it" as I had today. They told me my contributions weren't valued, because I hadn't contributed code.

What they all had in common? Seemingly Cis-het men, who I'd never heard about before, or seen in any of the discussions about the project. And none of them acted like they knew I had ever contributed to the project either.

But what spurred me on was the #ForkOff attitude.

I struggled a lot with if I should in any way lead a charge for a fork, for governance.

I had just not had my contract renewed. It would seem petty and disruptive if I encouraged a fork.

So I bit my tongue, for the past 3 weeks.

I didn't want to rock the boat, I didn't want to be antagonistic. I didn't want to be "that person".

Eugen could manage this himself, he said so, I was willing to give him a chance.