Civic hacknight #372 - Mastodon: Enter the Fediverse (IN-PERSON)

*This is the in-person registration for this event. To attend virtually via Zoom, please RSVP here.

Topic: Mastodon: Enter the Fediverse

• Mastodon early adopter Neville Park offers an introduction to decentralized social media: what it is, how it works, its upsides and downsides, and what it means for the "public square."

Speaker: Neville Park

• Neville Park (@nev@bananachips.club) has written about and researched Toronto City Council for Torontoist, Matt Elliott's City Hall Watcher, The Local, and on hir own blog. An avid livetweeter, ze joined Twitter in 2007 and Mastodon in 2016. Aside from politics, hir other great passions are arachnology, cell phone macrophotography, cycling, and naps.

Join us in person:

• We'll be meeting at City Hall (100 Queen St W). Room info will be shared when you RSVP.
• Security screening is in place at City Hall. Bags are searched, and you need to go through a metal detector.
• Our in-person venue is limited to 25 people and we encourage all attendees to wear masks.

Agenda:

• 7:00-7:20 = Welcome and Introductions
• 7:20-7:50 = Presentation and Q&A/discussion
• 7:50-9:00 = Breakout groups

Code of Conduct:

• http://civictech.ca/about-us

Check in with us on the Civic Tech Toronto Slack:

• https://link.civictech.ca/chat

Accessibility

• We're exploring ways to make our online hacknights more accessible. At the moment we provide video and audio of the presentation through Zoom and automated closed captioning.

About Us:

• Our weekly civic tech hacknights bring together Torontonians (designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, community organizers, and more) who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable, and equitable through design, tech, and data. Come and be part of it!

For more info:

• http://civictech.ca