I just looked in on the meetings thread and saw some specific plans emerging. If fluwikians (sp?) manage to meet pre-pandemic, I’d like to suggest that such meetings might usefully include educational workshops offered by different fluwiki members. I’d love to be able to be walked through the process of building a simple solar oven or rigging up my bike on a stand to charge a deep cycle battery or refurbishing my treadle sewing machine or canning meat or minimizing water use. Meetings are a good idea; a full-fledged, nationally promoted 3-day convention complete with such workshops and well-known speakers would be amazing. Of course, I’m thinking big when there may very well be no time for a large-scale enterprise. But teaching and learning opportunities at smaller-scale, less formal regional meetings would still be invaluable.
Of course, a large-scale convention wouldn’t be amazing if there were any risk of infection at the time, and who knows when that will happen, so scratch that idea :→.
Rumor had it that most of the best/productive/informative stuff at say, the international AIDS conferences, happened after it was officially over, and the press and politicians/bureaucrats had left.
Any post-conference workshops/meetups/local/neighborhood brainstorming possible? At a park, library, restaurant, cafe, ect? (Maybe those local meetups should be happening even if no conferences available.)
Inky, sounds like a LDS Preparedness Fair, which I hadn’t even heard about until on the Wiki, (despite our govenor being from Utah)…
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