This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Which part of the globe are you folks based on? Any advise for someone seeking opportunities in another country (that may require visa sponsorship)?
We are throughout USA and Europe. I can give you personal advice as someone who emigrated, and you might want to ask the question in the community chats of different chapters, but TWC is for collective action, not for individual career support
Where can I read about the requirements? Did whole, I'm prepared to pay dues to belong in a guild or union, depending on cost, and also I'm currently unemployed. Am I welcome, even? Lol.
we don't take dues and we are not an union in a legal sense. Requirements: time, energy, and motivation to learn and contribute. You're going to get trained on things once you join.
Join our community space before the 101 if you like: https://techworkerscoalition.org/subscribe/
You can Google tech worker coalition and check out their website. This post deep links to a zoom meeting url which isn’t the most helpful for folks in your situation, but yes the TWC does have other resources online.
the complaints in these comments is an illustration of why the left doesn't accomplish jack squat
I know, idealists think that even if we cant change the world immediately, we must at least keep our movement completely pure. They end up painting the coalition as compromised sellouts and do their all to kill all progress from within. By all means, let’s have a huge argument about what tiny, open source video service to use so that we can even talk to each other. Fuck!
we have our own self-hosted infrastructure for critical data. We use Zoom just to passively filter FOSS purists and hackerinos. (jk, not true, we do it because the infrastructure group prioritized other things, but it works anyway)
Good! If I find out you were hand rolling a video service so you could hold a meeting, I’d roll my eyes and move on :D
I only see one complaint comment
ah, I'm using interstellar and piefed, which aggregate the cross posts
Ah interesting
unfortunately, it's on zoom
Don’t let perfection be the enemy of good enough.
What platform would you suggest they use going forward?
This is not the same to have a FOSS platform for gaming or for international unionism. There are literately unions in arms and union organizers getting murdered by US employers around the world. Asking to organize on a GAFAM platform is not acceptable.
I'm glad that there is finally some interests in international unionism. I support your work here, even if I'm frustrated that I couldn't join in.
from my part even a text platform would be better, like a discourse forum, or god forbid, maybe even discord.
We have plenty of text-based community platforms, depending on the country you're in. It's all stuff that will be presented at the call.
An open source one like Revolt?
Not really a drop-in replacement for video meetings. For that, Jitsi would be more sensible.
