State of Our Networks 2020

This repository has organizing materials for the Our Networks 2020, for any questions email orga@ournetworks.ca!

• Planning
• Milestones
• Organizers
• Code of Conduct
• Statement on Acknowledgement of Traditional Land
• Materials License

Planning

Tasks and deadlines are tracked using our planning board and calendar. We have a bi-weekly(ish) planning call using meet.jit.si/ournetworks and our 📓 call notepad during a 1.5 hour timeslot on Saturdays 12:00-13:30 ET:

• 25 Jan, 13:30 – 15:00
• 15 Feb, 14:00 – 16:00
• 29 Feb, 12:00 – 13:30
• 14 Mar, 12:00 – 13:30
• 21 Mar, 12:00 – 13:30
• 28 Mar, 12:00 – 13:30
• 18 Apr, 12:00 – 13:30
• 25 Apr, 12:00 – 13:30
• 09 May, 12:00 – 13:30
• 23 May, 12:00 – 13:30
• 30 May, 12:00 – 13:30
• 06 Jun, 12:00 – 13:30
• 13 Jun, 12:00 – 13:30 SUBMISSION REVIEW
• 27 Jun, 12:00 – 13:30
• 04 Jul, 12:00 – 13:30
• 18 Jul, 12:00 – 13:30
• 25 Jul, 12:00 - 13:30
• 08 Aug, 12:00 - 13:30
• 22 Aug, 12:00 - 13:30
• 29 Aug, 12:00 - 13:30
• 05 Sep, 12:00 - 13:30

Milestones

Our current milestones for organizing are below (also on our calendar):

• 01/25 Kickoff call
• 03/01 Announce Date
• 03/29 Theme and CFP announced
• 04/04 Sponsorship package, budget finalized
• 04/04 Grant applications submitted
• 05/09 Delivery of designs
• 05/18 Website Relaunch
• 06/01 CFP closes
• 07/10 Submission decisions
• 07/30 Registration launched
• 07/30 Initial program released
• 08/08 First-wave registration packages shipped
• 08/23 Last day registration packages shipped
• 09/01 Activations Kickoff (as early as)
• 09/03 Virtual Load in
• 09/08 Our Networks 2020

Organizers

Our main organizing email is orga@ournetworks.ca, 2020 organizers are:

• garry (gh: @garrying)
• sarah friend (gh: @ana0)
• dc (gh: @dcwalk)
• mauve (gh: @RangerMauve)
• amelia (gh: @eggfroufrou)

Code of Conduct

This event has a Code of Conduct that all organizers and attendees have been asked to follow in order to create a welcoming space to aim to do our best work together.

Statement on Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

We would like to acknowledge this sacred land on which Our Networks will take place. It has been a site of human activity for 15,000 years. This land is the territory of the Huron-Wendat and Petun First Nations, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. The territory was the subject of the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Iroquois Confederacy and Confederacy of the Ojibwe and allied nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes. Today, the meeting place of Toronto is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work in the community, on this territory.

We are grateful to the First Nations House and Elders Circle (Council of Aboriginal Initiatives) which offered the revised acknowledgement language on November 6, 2014 that this acknowledgement is based on.

Materials License

State of Our Networks 2020 content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.