Organizing Software Freedom Camp 2022

I would suggest that paid support would benefit everyone and bring in more volunteers if we start projects that get funded from organizations like Software Freedom Conservancy and rejoining hands with ICFOSS.

@parmutownley The camp will be online. Although offline camp is a better idea. In that case we need to decide.

Charging a nominal fee for the registration in the camp

What about we charge a nominal fee for registration in the camp? For example, a fee of Rs 50 or Rs 100 per learner for registration.

Why?

I know we want to encourage more participation in the camp and free of charge registration is thought to be one way to do that. The problem that we currently face is people register and they are not at all serious about the camp as they don't show up. This is one thing we have learnt from previous camps. I think a nominal fee can make learners feel agency and they will be more careful and serious while registering. What I am aiming is for more of a psychological difference than us getting money.

The money we get via fee can be used for one of these:

• for funds in running our services or any of the initiatives https://fsci.in/initiatives that we have taken, like funding for the bifrost bridge.

• paying organizers.

• giving merchandise to learners if they reach the project phase. This can be an incentive too for learners to attend the camp.

Note: The main goal of the camp is convincing people about the Free Software philosophy https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html , integrate them in our community, get them started in contributing to free software (any one of these is fine as a goal). I think that learners being serious about the camp is one step towards this goal of convincing them about the Free Software.

I think we can create a chat group now for discussions. Please suggest how to go about it. Creating a matrix room and bridge it to IRC and XMPP?

Is there any link to join the private group ?

I cannot find it

Hello Everyone

Below are the invitations to the room where we discuss about organizing the camp.

y'all can join either through [Matrix] or XMPP/Quicksy

https://matrix.to/#/#sf-camp-private:mozilla.org

https://join.jabber.network/#fsci-camp-team@chat.disroot.org?join

@Elmiar @parmutownley @Sharvani @Tanzeem Mohammad Basheer

Check the room addresses above to join the discussions about organizing the camp.

Minutes of Meeting dated on 01-07-2022

1. Discussion about the registration fees for the camp ,

   Rs.100 was decided as the fee to be charged for the camp participants.

2. Payment to be collected either through opencollective.com or asking navodaya to accept payment.

3. Reaching out to all the volunteers to clarify about the role and the number of hours they can commit per week.

4. Using the existing camp website by moving the last year camp to archive/2021

5. Discussion about how the camp can be improved compared to last year, reasons why there was lack of participation in the camp.

6. Using the existing mastodon account for camp announcements.

7. Dropping Mailing list for all the camp announcements due to spam issues.

Interested to volunteer in organizing for 2023 as well

should i open a new thread?

Yes @Vinay Keshava