Main Page/Ideas

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

• Turning LFP into a non-profit cooperative
• Voting structure among members
• Committees or caucuses focused on different issues
• LFP BIPOC committee
• LFP LGBTQ committee
• LFP mission/vision/core values statements
• Social media team
• Legal support

Funding

• Reset.tech
• MacArthur

Activism

• Police data project
• Academic surveillance project/educational resources

Website, wiki, and resources

• Update LFP explainer with cohort 3 and 4 info
• Update LFP website with cohort 3 and 4 final projects, and missing projects from first two cohorts
• Edit existing resources for spelling etc
• More resources, sift through stuff on wiki and add to website
• Reorganize wiki for clarity
• LFP about page on website
• LFP media page on website
• LFP style guide
• Update booklist/media list on wiki
• Update/rewrite website
• Create [email protected] address

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
• Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
• Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Crow by Benjamin Ruha

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