@james But re: congress in terms of diversity. The fairest comparison I can give to an event I am not directly involved in is FOSDEM, which is honestly the largest concentration of white dudes anywhere on the planet. Congress is worlds away from that, and camp is in the next galaxy.
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Jonty Wareing (jonty@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2023 10:38:34 JST Jonty Wareing
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Jonty Wareing (jonty@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2023 10:38:35 JST Jonty Wareing
@james The important thing to note is that CCC (the organisation), CCC (congress), and CCC (camp) are run by mostly separate groups with some teams being shared. They don't even all agree with one another, so you can't talk about them collectively in a coherent way.
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Jonty Wareing (jonty@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2023 10:38:37 JST Jonty Wareing
@james It isn't bad at all, but it certainly has problems - a lot of them stem from it being run by volunteers for fun in an extremely distributed way. The interesting thing is that the online portrayal of the events is far worse than the reality - partially because not a lot actually gets written up about them and photos are few and far between due to the "no photos" policy (which has started being violated a lot more in recent years).
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Jonty Wareing (jonty@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2023 10:38:38 JST Jonty Wareing
@james Congress and camp are run by a loose collective of their members primarily for their members, so naturally it is mostly Germans. A bunch of other people from around the world (including me) tag along, but really we make up a small percentage. Camp is reasonably diverse as way more people travel for it due to the quadrennial nature. Congress a bit less so because of the time of year and cost.
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Jonty Wareing (jonty@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2023 10:38:39 JST Jonty Wareing
@james It is a bunch of Europeans yes, but that's because CCC is a massive German organisation that does a wide variety of things - they have over 8k members and are an absolute force to be reckoned with in terms of digital rights and privacy - we have absolutely nothing comparable in the UK, and arguably neither does any other country.