Events Calendar

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Want to see the upcoming events for Beyond40? Needing to track when the next meeting is? All of our meetings, book clubs, and events can be found on our group calendar.

You’re able to subscribe (via email/ICS/Fediverse/RSS), auto-add events to your phone’s calendar, comment, and create meeting links all without needing to make an account.

By subscribing to our calendar, you’ll have one place where you can keep track of when we meet and what we’re doing.

Shared Resources

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We use Cryptpad as a sort of shared “Google Drive” where various chapters will “pool” resources to help each other out. We have old meeting slides, flyer templates, masterdocs, and other materials sourced from our community that can easily be recycled for your own purposes.

We also leave the door open for members to create “masterdocs”: guides, lists, and references related to FOSS more broadly.

You can find the view-only link here to see and download what we have built up so far. There’s also an edit-link, but you will need to request it from someone who already has access.

Reading List

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As with any other social movement, free-software is home to its own set of debates, concepts, terms, and theories. The following texts are provided if you’d like to be caught up to speed with the sorts of discussions we may end up having.

Texts are curated based on their historical relevance to the movement, inclusion should not be necessarily taken as an endorsement of the views presented in said texts.

• What is Free Software? by the Free Software Foundation
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond
• Free Culture by Lawerence Lessig
• ‘Enshittification’: How Platforms Die by Cory Doctorow
• Coding Freedom by Gabriella Coleman

Other Resources

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• Beyond40 Website Repo Tutorial by Denny H
• Free/Affordable Meeting Spaces in Boston¹ by Lena Andrade