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Ideas

This is a page for ideas for future LFP things, big and small. We're collecting them here for the day when we get to work on them.

LFP governance

• Endorsements policy for library org offices -- what does it mean for LFP to endorse a candidate? Do we want to think about endorsing slates, for eg ALA divisions, in the future?
• System for endorsing candidates who are part of LFP
• Turning LFP into a non-profit cooperative
• Committees or caucuses focused on different issues
• LFP constitution
• LFP strategic plan (2025 is ten years of LFP, might make that the end goal)
• LFP BIPOC committee
• LFP LGBTQ committee
• Social media team
• Legal support
• Expand LFP board
• Finish mission and core values doc

Funding ideas

• Reset.tech
• MacArthur

Activism

• Police data project
• Academic surveillance project/educational resources
• Resources on surveillance tech for abolitionists: explaining eg ring cameras, palantir, face recognition, cops and social media, fusion centers

Website, wiki, and resources

• Update LFP explainer with cohort 3 and 4 info
• More resources, sift through stuff on wiki and add to website
• LFP about page on website
• LFP media page on website
• Create [email protected] address
• Past and current projects on website
• LFP announcement list
• LFP newsletter `
• Events calendar on website

Ongoing LFP Training

• Internal LFP training each other on topics to keep skills up and share new expertise.

Book Club Titles

• Black Reconstruction in America by W. E. B. Du Bois
• Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Crow by Benjamin Ruha
• We Do This Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba
• Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology by Tara Dawson McGuinness and Hana Schank
• The Future of You: Can your identity survive 21st century technology by Tracey Follows
• Silicon Values: The future of free speech under surveillance capitalism by Jillian C. York
• Digital punishment : privacy, stigma, and the harms of data-driven criminal justice by Sarah Lageson

Other stuff

• More swag: LFI tshirts for cohort 3 and 4 and any other cohort members who didn't get one, new sticker designs, hoodies
• Nextcloud account
• Fix/update Wikipedia page (Alison's and LFP)
• LFP newsletter and listserv for the broader community
• Volunteer manager, volunteer tasks, volunteer intake mechanism. We get volunteer requests like all the time and it's hard for me (Alison) to manage it so I mostly say no!
• Spreadsheet of journalists we've worked with
• LFP open house