2015 Agenda

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Our philosophy centers around getting participants into small-group discussions where they can discuss topics they are passionate about and get answers to their questions and curiosities. Sessions at Aspirations have particular traits; we de-emphasize presentations and lecture, and instead focus on "break-out" sessions that are self-organized whenever possible .

Wednesday November 18

Introduction

Spectrogram

Wednesday Breakout Session I

Important to document the people who are documenting, doing the human wrangling as just as important as the code writers. Coalition of partners, education of people in the context of the software.
Get further from the scary "and then they went to jail" stories into a more relatable. Things you do on the internet you don't want everyone to know about, shre that. Those discussions get people to think about privacy and how they can control information in person rather than on the internet.
Talked about OwnCloud and where it falls short (collab). Talked about "why" on "why transfer" which is bigger than Gdrive.
Challenges and pain points. The technology and frameworks work with your CMS, if you're contracting with a third party. Managing a contributor base. How do you vet people, get them to come back for more. Do you source volunteers or pay translators? Then maintenance. who updates for all new languages? TransEffects has a free plan for FOSS. Mensource(?).
Talked about stages of strategies, what's included, what order they go in. Barriers to healthy living.
History, comparison to wordpress. Building custom themes for drupal, basic modules. Also back(?)
Take young adults on autism spectrum for testing jobs in the software space. Offer free services.
talked about challenges to creating that, some ways to make it happen. Why would we want to do it?
basic concepts in widely used crypto tools. Some people who had tried to get better at it, but had been frustrated. Don't use PGP. Do use Signal and OTR. Do use Tor. Careful about VPNs. Crypto Concepts relevant in post-Snowden era.
lots of CRM, we made a list! People really like talking about CiviCRM, still the only open source one. SalesForce is free for nonprofits, but "free" like in "drugs." Be careful where you put your data (meetup.com won't let you have your data back). Think about your data model, what you want to store and use it, etc before you chose your tool. Think about security because you're dealing with people's private information. Or something.

Wednesday Breakout Session II

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