 We are, what I was saying, I want to talk about organizational processes in the centralized software. Thanks so much for the presentation. Thank you very much for getting to us. Thanks for hosting us, because we really feel a bit as a thank you for coming up in here. Just a little bit of a note, a little bit of an intrusion in this kind of talk. I just want you to be very conscious here that I only have white faces in front of me or most people. Just as a starting point. So we're going to talk about organizational processes in the decentralized world. And based on why we are here, we wanted to be in the decentralized world because of the great energy of every decentralized and federated project that is happening right now. We consciously, right before the actual development, just submitting a great movement and energy that is there. And there is, we had in the slide here showing the regular options and the number of softwares that are adopting protocols in desire to go make a counterpoint to existing monopolies and what I thought was the reason that was already mentioned. It's huge. I think the least we've been looking through is at least 40 softwares, maybe more. Every place is covered, every domain is covered. And it's doing it with good energy right now. So, no, there's no slide. I'm sorry. Well, I'm not sorry, but I'm sorry. I'd like to show you. So, okay, so when we are here, it's a question of the long history of the decentralized community that I would not go over. We all have, many people here have different visions on it. There has been a lot of happening. But what we want to question is really the fact that this is presented as a technical solution, a really great technical solution, but only discussed as a technical solution. And we feel that as a gap. So, why it's a really amazing technical solution is because obviously it multiplies the sources of information. Obviously it's great redundancy information that allows for a lot of resilience. It allows for the emergence of local instances and many services. Each of them having their own policy. They want to make a lot of content. They're all self-consciousness. And so on. No, that's not possible. So, yeah, the question is how about sitting on a project together? Are you cooking the time that we spend resolving the slides? No, I don't. Because I have all the same. So, what we want to achieve, we want to challenge. So we think it's important to voice what we need to achieve, which is challenging the monopolistic situation. We're developing the centralized software based on shared command protocol. And what we have at our disposal to do so is human material. Not only technical material, we have people. So, while we can, as a Scottish politic, protocol itself does not display any political opinion that we all agree on. And we do community itself as a tendency not to do so either. So, how to get organized or what are achieving that? We have existing community medias of organizations that are scarce and they are underused, they have problems with them, not many use. There are WC33 working group. There are many means of organization, but often not that much. In our research, I'd say we found that many policies were set on the blog and one published from blog and a response to a blog and there's no structure conversation happening in the community. So, our make visible is also to the narratives that are present in our movement and in particular also in the description of this session we mentioned this hero narrative. So, what do we mean by that? My hero narrative, we mean this tendency in software and technology in general for which we follow this Scottish politic figure who don't sleep at night just to make one comment after the other and it seems all the time it seems like in the end they are the only one working in the project and although everyone knows that it's not like that but together it's also a model of a work model which is not healthy, not for the person itself but also for the community at large. This is because of course there are many problems that arises when this kind of dynamics where there is this hero which somehow sets the level of the collaboration in a specific project so the person who knows becomes the example and since we also another concept which is interesting we thought about that is the concept of democracy so the ones who do more are also the ones who take the decision in the end and this is something which can work but also has some problems because for example in this kind of context sometimes it's difficult to tell the difference between a behavior which is authoritative, which is a behavior of someone who says or does something because he knows something or a behavior which becomes authoritarian in a way because for example another narrative is that of the benevolent dictator it's not nobody, we don't want to have a dictator even though he or she are benevolent we want to break this narrative Another problem is the fact that these kind of processes are detrimental for the long-term sustainability of projects because if there is just one person or two people in the world what happens is people burn out or they just decide to do something else and the life of the project doesn't exist and of course it is also missing perspective on ways in which a project can be improved because there is only one person who makes all the decisions and who somehow is regarded by the community as a kind of hero who in any way involves everything because he is the one or she is the one who works most then we also miss opportunities to improve a project through a certain context but the good thing is that these kind of processes can be educated I don't know if they can be resolved at all because in the end we are people and there are some people who like to take leadership on and some people don't like it so there will always be some kind of imbalance in a group so what we can do is to keep this imbalance in track and discuss about it and also do something about it and we will do something on the more local level or on the more global approach if we focus on the local level and here our feminist principles and practices come to play two practices which comes from the feminist tradition which could be useful in also example communities are first the practice of care and this is something which I think that in the past years have been also discussed more so it's the idea that if we are part of a group everyone needs to take care of the other so if you are part of a group and you see someone who is going to go down you can tell them, hey, maybe you are going to lunch maybe can I help you somehow or maybe you want to slow down etc and the second point is skill sharing which is of course not just a feminist practice it's something which exists and nobody can handle it but it is true that in the past years in tech skill sharing events made in a kind of more welcoming environment and things like that and what is important about skill sharing is that it's something that sometimes is taken from granted if you are in a group if there is someone who knows how to do something there is that someone so that kind of skill is not shared but this also is what leads to the euro and the person who is the only one who knows how something works so also having this kind of sharing in a group for example always working there is something which can decrease this kind of authoritarian problem but the truth is that we didn't really mostly want to talk about care and also the nice human beings because we think that you are perfectly capable of understanding that and there are a lot of resources on the internet what we really wanted to talk about is power power in communities, in projects and how this can affect the communities and how to give them it quickly with the definition that we found in the Duke feminist Wiki that is Dukefeminist.wikia.com but intersectionality I don't know my idea if the term sounds familiar maybe to some of us so it's the idea of giving power in a systemic and long-term perspective with power in a systemic and long-term perspective and the concept used to describe the ways in which oppressive institutions racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia eglism, xenophobia, racism, etc. all the isms are often interconnected when you are into one of those things you might be into others of one and they cannot be examined separately from one another so as the definition says the concept first came from the Augusto-Lochin-Berlin Commission in 1989 and is largely used in critical theories especially feminist stories when it's the same system why is that used here? because we want to be able to have a honest and conversation about power to understand the whole type of it where we come from is useful in this conversation how people are tied to one another is useful in this conversation and how we can change the relationship that we have been finding in between us since generation is useful in that so there are two aspects we talk in this on the internal level the pre-war narrative but also on the external level who are we as power structures in relation to other power structures that we are facing and this needs to be acknowledged when I see Google logo on our screens it hurts me because I don't want to see them and I want us to be on our position and on our position in front of them we are not on any whole level and this should be acknowledged the idea is that reasoning through the lenses of intersectionality is something which is not going to give answers but it's something which can help in asking questions about what we do we are talking again mostly on an external level so how as a group we can more effectively counter those powers which in in a direct for example the surveillance which was mentioned in an indirect way can harm ourselves so ok so yes so again we are talking about asking questions so we have listed some questions which could be interesting to discuss in the centralized projects which are concerned with the wider impact of the project so one first question which could be asked is what is the impact of my work in which way can I do what I am doing in a way which makes it also easier for other people to earn a living on that for example another question could be what kind of users and especially non-users I am including in my projects so for example if I think about a very nice something for I don't know and then there is a wide category of people maybe older people who are not familiar with technology are not going to learn it then you are excluding all these people so maybe try to think also how to produce what you want to do in a more kind of analogic way or how to include the pool of the possible users of the technology and another very important thing what is the impact of the product on the wider environment for example we have a lot of electronic waste so how heavy is your system your software your whatever do I need to use it on a phone or it doesn't work etc etc so yes in general in what kind of ways the thing you are doing actually being reinforcing these problems this is to close up so it's thinking about organization in a systemic way because the system we are living is the whole society it has the intelligence everywhere so we need to include external actors in developing decision even if the planet directly concerns we should not take them as externalities you of course we should focus on positive speech but not only we should also actively deal with the presence of problems and not be afraid of voicing them we can respond on a larger scale so yes the idea to conclude is that if we want to decentralize software projects in order to imagine a world which could exist outside of the capitalism narrative and a world in which technology could really be used as a tool to help ourselves and not as a tool to be present to be controlled and we do need to to produce and establish more visible narratives about about existing counterpowers and known technological projects and communities and what we wanted to say sorry our slides cause a little bit mixed up from the first version so we kind of lost the train in the end but so yeah the idea is that it's okay to be political and to voice political values even in a decentralized software project because in the end the people who are doing technology are not doing technology just for themselves but they're doing it for a larger society and so there are ways to make the involvement of this larger social group more visible so for example if there is some political issue in which the members of your community feel to be global about for example global or the people dying in the Mediterranean what's wrong about I don't know expressing actively solidarity towards these people or writing on your website that this is a problem for you and for your projects you don't want people who don't think that that is a problem using your software for example because in this way it's possible to strengthen the relationship between different communities and different groups which we or without the technology share the same aim of fostering a world in which we can do more freedom and more autonomy to decide what we want to do with our lives so yeah and just for the activity of wonderful that I hope many of us can do but what I want to say that other people in the tech industry that think that every decision that we make in your land that's what we're proud of whether it's small or big so I want to raise the question of how can we raise awareness to people that you can have a rational and calm discussions about problems from like a discussion with the future of the internet of the web and about the market share of Chrome and Firefox and he understood my the fact that I was presenting to him the danger of the web always went back and came up with a new region to justify this position so I want to, I don't know what's the way to kind of raise awareness and make people see certain things that and solve the issue that take other questions in the community yeah what you were saying about raising the issues in regards to projects and the same set other type of projects into this response to the issues you are mentioning and setting it clearly not hiding it and not saying it's going to happen because the code is going to make it happen it's also going to happen because how it is can I just make this issue more visible is just to talk about them so name them name the fact that there is politics and technology and we just need to be aware of that and discuss it so today we mentioned it you can mention it again in the next conference you will participate or discuss it make these more peaceful.