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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.

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

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

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

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

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