New at #Metadecidim? Wondering how can you participate? Here you have the guidelines! 🌈

You can contribute in many ways, from improving the software and documentation to participating in governance discussions. Your involvement is key to the project.

https://meta.decidim.org/

It’s time to help shape what’s next for #Metadecidim🔔

We are putting out a call to all community members to shape the community activities together. That means planning upcoming gatherings, brainstorming ideas about #DecidimFest2025, and figuring out how we can spread the word to reach new people.

We’ll also be chatting about what’s next for the #OpenCall for the community day of the Fest—so if you’ve got ideas, bring them!

https://meta.decidim.org/assemblies/eix-comunitat/f/149/meetings/2088

@decidim For #FOSDEM talks with a #FLOSS hashtag, participants at the presentations should be interested in helping #Metadecidim and #Decidim remove their heavy dependence on #GAFAM [1] (G+A+M+Sendgrid). Achieving the #FOSS part of the #Decidim social contract [2] looks like it won't be done fast, but brainstorming with FOSDEM participants might help.

[1] https://meta.decidim.org/processes/bug-report/f/210/proposals/17852

[2] https://docs.decidim.org/en/develop/understand/social-contract

Plans for migration off GAFAM are unknown: Decidim should not run on GAFAM-type anti-participatory software/organisations - Metadecidim

ContextThe whole point of Decidim is that decision-making should not depend on authoritarian organisations. GAFAM/AAAMM [1] is the opposite of Decidim.BugMigration proposals ([4] old/tech-only; [5] private) are difficult to find.Dependencies Microsoft/GitHub (M in GAFAM) Metadecidim emails - SendGrid [6] Emails [email protected] - Google (G in GAFAM) Amazon S3 AWS (A in GAFAM) Migration to community software+servers [2] will likely cause disruptions. Failure to migrate would leave Decidim vulnerable to EEE [3] and fail to support the existing FOSS ecosystem. Migration plans should be combined non-tech + tech decisions: institutional support would likely require political/funding decisions.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAFAM[2] https://switching.software[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2c_extend%2c_and_extinguish[4] https://github.com/decidim/decidim/discussions/9754[5] https://meta.decidim.org/assemblies/eix-tech/f/86/debates/42[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SendGrid

@OliverEscobar @decidim

There is now an en.Wikipedia article on #Decidim [1] as a three-level political+technical+technopolitical network, as described in the very inspiring book by the #Metadecidim community [2]. Several studies by researchers are in [1], confirming that Decidim *is* genuinely used in the real world on a significant scale. It's a work-in-progress: it has failed in at least one case (Lucerne): it is not a techno-utopia.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decidim

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20240613102846/https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-031-50784-7.pdf

Decidim - Wikipedia

🔒 We've closed the open call to join #DecidimFest23.

🎊 Thank you all for your proposals!

👥 The #Metadecidim community will work on the selection, that will be announced in September.

📌 http://meta.decidim.org

Metadecidim

Welcome to Metadecidim community site. This is a democratic community that manages the Decidim project democratically in all its dimensions.

📢 Would you like to conduct a workshop or lightning talk at the upcoming #DecidimFest23?

🔍 We’re looking for contributions on the following topics:

▫ Devs and hacking
▫ Research
▫ Participatory design and methodologies
▫ Data
▫ Design
▫ IA & Democracy

🗓 Share your proposal by July 24th. The selection will be made by the #Metadecidim community.

📫 https://meta.decidim.org/conferences/DecidimFest23/f/1810/?locale=en

Call for Proposals - Decidim Fest 2023 - Metadecidim

Decidim Fest returns on October 18,19 and 20, 2023 with the motto Democracy, Technology and Collective Intelligence.Artificial Intelligence has undoubtedly emerged as the overarching digital issue over the last year. It has done so on multiple levels, both in terms of enhancing some of the leading technologies with rapid extension and social adoption, and in terms of opening debates about its risks, limits, regulation and potential impacts on our societies. In this context, and with the capacity to glimpse numerous possibilities of these technologies from a democratic perspective, important doubts or questions arise: Why is it called artificial when it is nourished by sources of common and open knowledge, produced in a collective manner? Who leads its development at a global level and under what mandate? Which are the regulatory urgencies to defend fundamental and democratic rights? How can we imagine models of AI development that are democratic and at the service of society as a whole?Specifically, and within the Decidim project, we want to address many of these questions: how can AI systems be deployed in Decidim, from free software, from democratic governance and from its social contract, to continue to pave the way for the development of transparent, open technologies at the service of the common good. In this edition of Decidim Fest, we will once again bring together our wonderful global community to meet, share paths, strengthen our collective project and try to answer some of these questions. We are aware that we have great challenges ahead of us, but Decidim is already a global reference for free and democratic technology in a growing ecosystem of FLOSS projects that are opening new paths of hope for a more democratic digital era.

⚡️hey #metadecidim‼️
Tomorrow 24th of May, we are celebrating a key meeting for our community to address the Sustainability, governance and partnerships of Decidim✨

🕔 5pm (Barcelona time)
🔭 Remote participation
👉🏾 Please register here https://meta.decidim.org/assemblies/eix-comunitat/f/149/meetings/1807

Community Meeting: Sustainability, governance and partnerships of Decidim - Meetings - Community Meetings - Metadecidim

In this meeting we want to talk about the different topics that we are debating in the recently opened participatory process on sustainability, governance and alliances of Decidim.The coordination committee has decided to promote this event with the aim of having a quality space where we can discuss in a synchronous way about the different topics of the opened debates:Economic sustainabilityManagement and roles of the Technical OfficeTechnological governancePartnership - Partners RelationshipCollaborationsInternationalisation of the community

Atención #Metadecidim, hemos abierto el proceso participativo para definir el modelo de gestión y la estrategia de sostenibilidad de Decidim⚡️

En el siguiente enlace encontrarás los diferentes temas de debate.
Accede a cada uno de ellos para informarte y comentar.

👉🏾https://meta.decidim.org/processes/sustainability-governance/f/1795/

Los debates estarán abiertos hasta el 10 de mayo.

✨ ¡Todas las personas de la comunidad están invitadas a participar!

Debates - Sustainability, governance and partnerships of Decidim - Metadecidim

The objective of the process is to open the discussion on the sustainability and management model of the Decidim project, in order to end up approving an agreement in the General Assembly that gives tools, objectives and rules to the Association to be able to work in this direction.

We are #hiring ⚡️

We’re looking for someone who will be responsible for creating a sustainability plan for the Association and find new funding opportunities

Details here 👉🏾https://decidim.org/blog/2023-04-03-job-offer-fundraiser/

#metadecidim #decidim #funding

Job offer: Fundraiser | Decidim

All members are welcome to attend the Extraordinary Assembly of the Association Decidim
📆27 of March
🕖17h - 19h

Check the agenda and save the date
https://meta.decidim.org/assemblies/general-assembly-association/f/1127/meetings/1804

#metadecidim #community #Governance

Extraordinary Assembly of the Decidim Association - Sessions - General Assembly of the Decidim Association - Metadecidim

All members are convened to the Extraordinary General Assembly of the Association.AgendaOfficial presentation of the new committeeUpdate on the activity of the Coordination CommitteeUpdate of grantsRenewal of the agreement Decidim-Localret-Barcelona City CouncilUpcoming translated official documents for new members (statuses)Partnership updatesPresentation of the new electronic voting module made with VocdoniVoting for approval of the document on community meetings with the Vocdoni module (see document attached)Document presentation and readingQuestionsVoting for approvalRanking people powered update (ranking)Approximate date of the next ordinary general assemblyOpen floor for commentsIn this assembly we will use the electronic voting module that we have been developing during these months together with Vocdoni. You can read the news here.