Toronto Public Library Programming and Events

[benhylau]

^{This initial comment is collaborative and open to modification by all.}

Task Summary

🎟️ Re-ticketed from: #
📅 Due date: March 2, 2021
🎯 Success criteria: First workshop delivered
❌ Blocked by:
👈Depends on:

Toronto is part of Cities for Digital Rights and one of the actions for the Toronto Public Library is to provide public programming on related topics. We are working with TPL on programming and community network development events.

We are in the early phase of brainstorming and exploring possibilities, that may include infrastructural components. I expect to draw on prior experience in Meshnet 📡 DWeb Camp 2019, in particular how to grow a community of Network Stewards but for the Toronto Community Network, and possibly extend this to digital literacy programming unrelated to network (e.g. building a Jekyll personal blog on the local network). I have noted to TPL that Toronto Mesh hopes to improve diversity and inclusivity of the Torontonians that participate in Toronto Mesh initiatives, and this may be something TPL can help with.

If anyone is interested in participating in these meetings, please let me know.

Ongoing note pad for planning: https://hackmd.io/15DzYRh5RZS4bZiqY18VuQ?edit

To Do

• Meeting with Fiona
• Draft objectives
• Prepare workshop content
• Deliver first workshop

[benhylau]

Milestone: Nov 24

• Fiona: draft partner agreement with TCN (draft in review)
• Ben: budget for background checks
• Yurko: email Fiona to seek IT approval for BBB
• All: join chat room /join #p2p-internet-workshop:tomesh.net (to organize work)
• All: make skeleton of 1.5h presentations (e.g. two google decks):
  • There are the problem with what exists
    • TCN Workshop Pt 1
  • These are the alternatives (prior to let's join TCN)
    • TCN Workshop Pt 2

Details here -> https://hackmd.io/15DzYRh5RZS4bZiqY18VuQ?view#10-NOVEMBER-2020

[benhylau]

New roles:

• Yurko: meeting facilitation
• Ben: lead course design
• Rob: project operations (this ticket now assigned to @infectedroot)
• Marzie: marketing and comm

Next two weeks:

• Week 1: everyone to research content, drop relevant links and comments, new slides into the two decks
• Week 2: polish content, discuss in chat, ready for discussion at our call

[maghdaee]

Hey @infectedroot
Is this for promotion material? What kind of promotion material we're thinking?

and a broader question about the propriety rights in the agreement- Do we have rights to promote the event through our own channel? Do we need approval from TPL?

PS. I am on Windows and don't have Adobe/ Corel to open EPS files. So, I only checked the PDG file which looks fine. Still I m unclear what kind of material we're creating but JPEG is easier for me to use generally speaking.

[benhylau]

Sorry, some confusion here. The logo is for the TCN project website here. I am going to forward to @Shrinks99 to add?

@infectedroot I removed your comment above, bc I am not sure if TPL is okay with having the EPS in public. Another org we have dealt with explicitly wanted that private.

[Shrinks99]

TPL is currently using an SVG of their logo on their website. I don't see why using the vectors on ours would be an issue, especially because we were specifically given them to use. They are the best way of displaying this graphic on the web. Happy to convert the EPS to an SVG and implement!

[Shrinks99]

Added logo to page, see tomeshnet/toronto-community-network-docs#33 for discussion, there's two things to address before merging.