[Libreplanet-us-wa] Opportunities

[Andrew Kane]

I've been looking out for opportunities for people to organize in ways
that can improve their lot. In light of recent events it would appear
than many others have been doing so also. I've been following this for
example: https://www.thestranger.com/events/resistance

Last week I went to an event I found there called Communities Rising.
You can find it on Facebook if you have Facebook- otherwise you can look
it up on the stranger and then you have to get someone's private email
to be added to their mess of contacts. These folks need help with their
tools. LibrePlanet is a potentially wonderful resource for people who
are riled up enough to go to meetings but who have not really known that
there are people out there working on tools which explicitly respect
their freedoms and what that means for them, and who provide these tools
at no cost and with low-cost (often free) in-person tech support
(provided they are willing to attend meetings, which willingness they've
already demonstrated.)

As someone who organizes such meetings, I'm excited by this and am
trying to reach as many people as I can who can help others to find and
to learn good tools for their use cases as well as those who need this
help or are just intrigued with the possibility.

Free Software's Eternal September started years ago. Now we have an
opportunity to use it for good. What do you want to do?