Convener: Jesse Baer (@misc@mastodon.social)

Participants (add yourself here if you want to be listed, no obligation): Name and Fediverse handle

• @laurenshof@calckey.social
• Marlene Breitenstein (@BreitensteinArt@mastodon.art)

Key points:

• first question of how to get nontechies who show excitement into something like an unconference
• onboarding is definitely a barrier
• how to hear the voices of the nontechies and get their feedback
• talking about cultural challengers for new users
• opportunity to use technology from a bottomup approach, not topdown from companies perspective, => we are now in a very early awakening of people starting to realize this. Metaphore of learning to speaking a new language
• few months ago there was a very active participatory discussion on the timelines (see docs link for example)
• how much could in-person events play a role?
• fedi is better at accomodation people with disabilities than other platforms, but still lots to be improved
• lots of demand in different context for people to regularly talk to each other in meetup context
• someone hosted a IRL meetup last year, but very few people know about fedi
• use mobilizion to start hosting events
• Alert Mastodon influencers in more diverse populations (POC, disabled) about events, so they can help recruit their audiences
• 24-hour rolling unconference
• Free or scholarships or pay what you can
• On the weekend to increase access
• What topics would draw non-techies? What is Masto, what are the apps/tools, how to use them, how to increase your reach, how to stay more private, what’s the culture like, etc.

Outside references:

• https://moodle.net/
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EnkjkSW14hR_uTdwEW7vqRaaIXDMlNQ4WRNoPmnn_z0/edit#heading=h.i0urqqmbdsw0
• https://joinmobilizon.org/ by https://framasoft.org/