Re: [lp-ca-on] Software Freedom Dialogue Strategy (was Re: SFD Street Activism)

[Blaise Alleyne]

On 25/08/16 10:22 AM, Stephen Paul Weber wrote:
>> Whether to congregate in one location to do this together, like the 
>> biggest city or most central city with members
> 
> I'm not opposed to making a trip to Toronto to do something like this.  
> There certainly is more foot traffic there on average.  Do you have a sense 
> of what places in Toronto would be good to target for this sort of thing?
> 

Yes, from other activism.

Like, an intersection like Queen/Spadina has a ton of pedestrian traffic -- and
perhaps even more of a young and hipster ish crowd that might be somewhat
receptive to this kind of thing? And people might be out for an afternoon or
something.

I've been around the downtown at many different intersections...

While I think downtown Toronto would be a great place, I also don't think it
would be totally necessary. If there's a location with enough steady foot
traffic anywhere, it could be worth it -- like in the main stretch in Owen Sound
on a weekend? Or a downtown / main street stretch or something, like King Street
in Waterloo maybe? (Not sure what pedestrian traffic is like.)

I think Toronto would make sense for a day that we're all trying to get together
to do this and debrief. But I think it could also be fruitful for smaller groups
to run this is smaller cities too.

The limiting reagent here is more likely to be the number of volunteers than the
number of passers-by, because we have nothing visible (e.g. posters, video,
display) here, so we're only going to reach the people we talk to. As long as
there's enough of a steady stream of people that all our volunteers can be
having frequent conversations, I think it's worth it. I think a lot of smaller
places could have a stretch with a steady enough stream of pedestrians to keep a
couple LibrePlanet volunteers busy.

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