![]() I’m planning to do one topic per post, rather than the potpourri you get here weekly from The Connector. Starting this month, I will be writing twice a week for Medium as part of their contributing author program. Please come for all or part of the event, and please help spread the word. We’ve got a great (and non-exhaustive) group of co-convenors, including technologists, political reformers, Internet rights organizers, authors, policy wonks, and funders. Tickets are on a sliding scale from $5 - $100, with the funds going to cover the cost of QiqoChat, the conference platform we’ll be using (it’s the brainchild of civic coder Lucas Cioffi and it’s basically Zoom plus social profiles plus more fluid ways for users to move around among breakouts), along with facilitation. In the last hour, we’ll all share back what we’ve learned, and after the event we’ll send attendees a compilation of all the notes taken in breakout sessions. Then we’ll have three hour-long breakout sessions, and attendees will be free to move to whatever breakouts grab their interest. In the first hour, we’ll meet in one big virtual room and anyone who wants to offer a session with get a chance to pitch it. Which basically means that we all co-create the unconference together. ![]() Kaliya, who is the longtime co-founder of the Internet Identity Workshop, itself one of the leading places for people working on empowering users to control their own data, will be facilitating the event using the process of open space technology. The event is called “ Logging Off Facebook: What Comes Next, ” and it will run from noon to 5pm ET. With those intersecting interests in mind, I’m excited to announce that next Friday, as part of #TheFacebookLogout campaign, Kaliya Young and I are hosting a half-day unconference under the auspices of Planetwork for anyone who wants to dig in further. And plenty of organizers and organizations are searching for ways to reduce their dependence on Facebook or move their communities to healthier digital spaces. Lots of folks are doing valuable work, either to build alternatives or to fight for better laws or regulations to govern social media companies. With media attention on Facebook at a zenith, now is as good a time as any to bring together people to talk about what, if anything, comes after.
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