@mousey "I know, Brain, but where are we going to find a Radio Shack open at this hour?" (local-first hardware seems dicey)

More seriously, local public libraries and neighborhood community centers feel like good places to organize local-first approaches to information sharing and organization. And the packet radio community, likely.

Jon Udell tried hard for many years to make community calendaring work, and it was tough to keep all the pieces connected. Maybe Portland Oregon has done better than Keene NH or Santa Rosa CA.

But as you say, it's timely to prepare the ground to exit the contended commercial space. It's a tremendous lift for the individual, so community learning is needed. (and here I am on Mastodon, thanks to a distributed team of Twitter exodus helpers, so: prior art?)

@jmeowmeow In lieu of Radio Shack, there are a growing number of e-recyclers in my area, they sell refurbished stuff, it's fun, most of my home lab is e-recycled.

I've built 3 internet-in-a-box(.org) boxes now. One of them is on a recycled ThinkCenter, also shoved in self-updating (apt-)mirrors of Debian, Ubuntu, Mint. The intention is to take to the library and throw a #localfirst installfest. The others are just offline little-free-libraries. I have other plans, but I'm just one guy, y'know?