I helped run the Redecentralize2019 unconference last Friday (one reason among many for no bloggage last week). It was good to be opening space (decentralized groups self-organizing to talk about what's important to them) with a group that is immersed in that sort of thinking.
Overall, it was another exercise in "how do you get people to do what you want them to do when you can't tell them what to do?" but with a bit more intelligence and experience of what works and what doesn't than is usual.
I took part in interesting conversations about how you map a dynamic space like this (a list of projects doesn't cut it) and how mental health can be supported in such anarchic environments. Someone also, helpfully, put on a 15 minute movement session where we got to temporarily express our physicality and stretch a bit. I was also pleased to see the indieweb well-represented by Tantek and Kevin Marks. I'm reconsidering what I've been doing in that area as a result. There were many other things going on, of course.
I'm more pleased with the note-taking from this event than any other I've done this year and the new animal signs that I made to allocate spaces in an otherwise undifferentiated place are working well. It also helped to co-opt someone to assist on the actual sticking up of the agenda so that I could focus on helping people express their ideas at the mic.
