Name: FOSS, Libraries, and Communities
Start: 2025-08-01T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-08-01T21:00:00-04:00
Location: Winthrop Park

**WHAT:** A social meet up to discuss libraries, [Internet in a Box](https://internet-in-a-box.org), and many other pragmatic, change-making, and action-oriented topics related to Free/Open source software (FOSS) and communities!

Discussion Topic Suggestion from Steve, this week's community organizer:

“*Principles of the New International Economic Order (NIEO) articulated by the Global South — the original declaration (and the politics of its rejection by the Northern countries) in the '70s, the institutions that have come to underpin international political economy currently, the more recent re-articulation of the NIEO by the Progressive International, how free software / technology transfer / ICT4D projects like Internet-in-a-Box might fit into the realization of some of its principles — discussion on how free software could fit into a local community-driven vision of development.*”

**WHEN:** Friday, August 1st, 6PM!

**WHERE:** Per tradition, please meet up right near the entrance to Grendel's Den in Winthrop Park — help everyone get to know each other!

By/around 6:45PM, we will wander over to **Le’s Vietnamese Restaurant (36 JFK St).**

**HOW TO GET IN TOUCH:** If you have comments, questions, or proposals, feel free to message the organizers here on Meetup.

Do you have ideas for using FOSS to craft an Internet for ourselves and our peers, under our communities’ control? We meet roughly the 1st and 3rd Friday every month. *Come Join Us!*

Avni Khatri

mariah

Chris Thompson

Micky Metts

Will Rico

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