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=== Week 1: Introduction ===
 
=== Week 1: Introduction ===
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* Recording from this week: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/683440034
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* Real time lecture: TBD on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/9129428892
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* Welcome everyone! We’re so thrilled to be starting the first LFP Crash Course on Systems and Policies. This week, we’ll be getting acquainted with the course, including curriculum, technology, goals, and each other. 
  
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* Real time lecture: March 1st, 8:30 - 10:30 Pacific/11:30 - 1:30 Eastern on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/9129428892
 
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* Welcome everyone! We’re so thrilled to be starting the first LFP Crash Course on Systems and Policies. This week, we’ll be getting acquainted with the course, including curriculum, technology, goals, and each other.
 
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==== Course overview ====
 
==== Course overview ====
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===== Course themes =====
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* WE ARE STILL IN A PANDEMIC (plus other kinds of social and economic collapse)
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* Surveillance capitalism: politics, ideology, and money behind technologies
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* Privacy and intellectual freedom with a justice-based approach, not just a rights-based approach
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* Privacy strategies and tools with a harm reduction lens
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* Individual vs collective action
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===== LFP background =====
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* Alison intro
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* Howard intro
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* Brief LFP history
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* How the Crash Courses came to be
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===== Syllabus and weekly layout =====
 
===== Syllabus and weekly layout =====
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* Ten weeks, roughly five hours a week
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* Eight weeks, roughly five hours a week
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* Weekly commitments: lecture, discussion, readings, tasks.
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* Weekly commitments: lecture, discussion, readings, tasks, small group work.
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* [https://libraryfreedom.wiki/html/public_html/index.php/Main_Page/Crash_Courses/Systems_and_Policies#Schedule_overview Schedule overview]
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* Schedule overview: [https://libraryfreedom.wiki/html/public_html/index.php/Main_Page/Crash_Courses/Systems_and_Policies#Schedule_overview]
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* Weekly meetings are typically one hour of lecture, one hour of discussion, so please be ready to participate each week! Sometimes the discussion will be in small breakout groups, and sometimes it'll be with the whole group. The first hour (lecture) will be recorded each week, but the second hour will not.
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* Weekly meetings are one hour of lecture, one hour of discussion, so please be ready to participate each week!
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* Tasks are things for you to complete every week. Usually they'll be discussion board prompts, diving deeper into weekly topics that we've covered in readings and conversations. If you have to miss some, that is fine! They're meant to help you engage more deeply in this course, so you'll get back what you put in.  
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* Tasks are things you’re expected to complete every week. There aren’t other assignments except for the final projects you’ll present with your small group. We’ll check in every few weeks about the status of those projects, and when that happens you can share drafts or just outlines or thoughts.  
 
* Let Alison know if you need to be absent from one of the real-time lectures, or if you need to miss a whole week for any reason.  
 
* Let Alison know if you need to be absent from one of the real-time lectures, or if you need to miss a whole week for any reason.  
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* Review and abide by the [https://libraryfreedom.wiki/html/public_html/index.php/LFI_Course_Materials/Code_of_Conduct code of conduct].
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* Review [https://libraryfreedom.wiki/html/public_html/index.php/LFI_Course_Materials/Code_of_Conduct code of conduct].
  
 
===== Class technology =====
 
===== Class technology =====
 
* Discourse messageboard: libraryfreedom.chat (register an account)
 
* Discourse messageboard: libraryfreedom.chat (register an account)
 
* Zoom video/audio chat/recordings (Zoom meeting ID 912-942-8892)
 
* Zoom video/audio chat/recordings (Zoom meeting ID 912-942-8892)
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* Riseup mailing list: [need to add Crash Course mailing list here]
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* Riseup mailing list: library-freedom-institute@lists.riseup.net
 
* Wiki: libraryfreedom.wiki (register an account)
 
* Wiki: libraryfreedom.wiki (register an account)
 
* Vimeo archive of lectures: https://vimeo.com/libraryfreedominstitute
 
* Vimeo archive of lectures: https://vimeo.com/libraryfreedominstitute
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Please note that all class technology is publicly accessible! That means that the mailing list archives, messageboard, and wiki can all be viewed by anyone. I’ve set it up this way so that the materials we create can easily be shared, but also, I understand that sometimes we might want to talk amongst ourselves, so I’ve created a “private” category on the Discourse messageboard that’s only viewable to our group. You can use this category whenever you want to talk about something that you don’t want the whole world to see.  
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Please note that all class technology is publicly accessible! That means that the mailing list archives, messageboard, and wiki can all be viewed by anyone. I’ve set it up this way so that the materials we create can easily be shared, but also, I understand that sometimes we might want to talk amongst ourselves, so I’ve created a “private” category on the Discourse messageboard that’s only viewable to our group. You can use this category whenever you want to talk about something that you don’t want the whole world to see. Likewise, we are not recording the second hour of our weekly conversations, so that this can also be a more private space for discussion.
 
  
 
===== Outcomes for this cohort =====
 
===== Outcomes for this cohort =====
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* Gain a more holistic understanding of the data environment in libraries.
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* Learn to use privacy software that can be installed on patron machines or library workstations
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* Learn how to use threat modeling to determine how the loss of privacy impacts our communities, and to determine priorities when implementing better privacy practices.
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* Teach your own train-the-trainer workshops to other librarians in your region.
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* Learn the language of privacy, and use it to talk to talk to library stakeholders and craft effective, comprehensive policy.
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* Approach members of your community regarding privacy concerns and teach privacy-related community workshops.
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* Understand some of the endemic vendor privacy issues and  discuss opportunities for resistance and harm reduction.
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* Use your new role as a Privacy Advocate to influence policy and infrastructure.
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* Understand privacy issues and best practices affecting public computer environments.
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* Encourage community engagement with privacy policy issues
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* Work with your small group to develop a privacy plan that can be implemented in your library or others
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===== Optional final projects =====
 
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Lots of LFP folks have found it valuable to work on a final project as part of their work in these cohorts. Sometimes folks have worked alone, sometimes in groups. These final projects are optional, but if you choose to work on one, Alison will be ready to work with you as much as you need in bringing it to life. Our graphic designer, Mike Finch, may also be able to help with the aesthetics of your project.
 
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Some final projects that people have worked on in the past:
 
  
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===== Final projects =====
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The final project will be a comprehensive privacy plan for a library. Every group will work together on components of the final project. This final project should choose from and expand on the following components:
 
* A library privacy policy and/or example vendor agreement
 
* A library privacy policy and/or example vendor agreement
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* An analysis of vendor privacy issues
 
 
* A privacy class
 
* A privacy class
 
* A privacy program that isn't a class
 
* A privacy program that isn't a class
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* A staff training  
 
* A staff training  
 
* Something focused on privacy work outside of the library walls, like a letter to a legislator
 
* Something focused on privacy work outside of the library walls, like a letter to a legislator
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* A privacy audit plan for a library
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* Other ideas that the group wishes to add can be submitted when the group submits their roles, or can be added later
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* A comprehensive privacy plan for a library
 
  
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Some examples of these projects can be found on the [https://libraryfreedom.org/resources/ LFP website].
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Your final project should be practically-focused and should reflect your own interests! You can see examples of the last cohort's final projects on the [https://libraryfreedom.org/index.php/resources/ LFP website].
  
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===== Small groups for final projects (TBD) =====
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* Small group work proved to be really difficult in the third cohort because of the pandemic. Let's discuss how we want to organize our final projects, whether small groups might work for some of us and some other method might work for the rest.
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==== This week only! ====
 
===== Readings =====  
 
===== Readings =====  
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There will be readings most weeks; please come to the weekly conversation ready to discuss them!
 
  
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This week, I'm sharing just a few foundational pieces on the early internet which give some background into the problems we face today. We will probably only be discussing them on the message board (libraryfreedom.chat) during week 2. In future weeks, we'll be discussing the readings during our real time discussion.
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We'll begin by getting into some background about what's going on and how we got here. Our focus this week will be on a range of readings...a little bit of the history and politics of Big Data and government surveillance, as well as some of the historical ideas about what a more just internet could look like. We don't have anywhere near the time to go through all of the history here, so we'll just be focusing on some of the bigger issues. Please have the reading completed before our Monday lecture, because we'll spend that lecture talking about what we learned. Later, we'll continue the discussion on libraryfreedom.chat. You'll also review the Data Detox Kit and complete one day of it for your weekly tasks.
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We won't be discussing these readings until week 2! But there are a lot, so you have two weeks to read them.
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[https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/ifi/INF3700/v17/bakgrunnsnotat/the_surveillant_assemblage.pdf The Surveillant Assemblage, Kevin D. Haggerty and Richard V. Ericson]
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[https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence A Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow] (read before reading The Californian Ideology)
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[https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/californian-ideology The Californian Ideology by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron] (read after reading A Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace)
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[https://gist.github.com/kolber/2131643 Pandora's Vox: On Community in Cyberspace by humdog]
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrjDRpFBW_0 Simone Browne keynote at the Scholar and Feminist conference (video)]
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[https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/02/history-surveillance-and-black-community The History of Surveillance and the Black Community]
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[https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/shoshana-zuboff-age-of-surveillance-capitalism-book-review/ None of Your Business (review of Shoshana Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism]
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[https://www.eurozine.com/sad-by-design/ Sad by Design by Geert Lovink]
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[https://logicmag.io/bodies/another-network-is-possible/ Another Network is Possible by April Glaser]
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[https://www.internetsociety.org/internet/history-internet/brief-history-internet/ A Brief History of the Internet (from Internet Society)]
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[https://mashable.com/2014/06/05/edward-snowden-revelations/ The Ten Biggest Revelations from the Edward Snowden Leaks]
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===== Guest lecturer =====
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No guest this week; Alison will lead the lecture
  
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* [https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/ifi/INF3700/v17/bakgrunnsnotat/the_surveillant_assemblage.pdf The Surveillant Assemblage, Kevin D. Haggerty and Richard V. Ericson]: this is a foundational piece in the realm of "surveillance studies" that can help ground our understanding of the problem.
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===== Discussion =====
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* [https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace] A text written in 1996 by John Perry Barlow, which has been enormously influential in the cyber-libertarian ideology that has dominated the development of the internet, which critics say has led to many of the problems with Big Data that we face today.
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* What are your personal goals for this course?
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* [https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/californian-ideology The Californian Ideology] A critique of the cyber-libertarian ethos, written in 1995.
 
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* [https://gist.github.com/kolber/2131643 Pandora's Vox] Another view of the early internet (1994), and a warning about what it was to become, from Carmen Hermosillo aka humdog.
 
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* Read through and familiarize yourself with libraryfreedom.wiki
 
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* Read through libraryfreedom.org
 
  
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===== Discussion board prompt =====
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    How do you see the surveillant assemblage at work in our lives?
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* What brings you to LFP? What are your personal goals for this course? https://libraryfreedom.chat/t/cc-3-intro-week/932
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    What stands out to you about the ideologies that helped shape the internet?
  
 
===== Tasks =====  
 
===== Tasks =====  
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* Lecture, readings and discussion forum
 
* Create a libraryfreedom.chat account
 
* Create a libraryfreedom.chat account
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* Post your discussion board response to libraryfreedom.chat
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* Read through materials on libraryfreedom.wiki
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* Start readings for next week

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