Inhomogeneous cosmologies online

Cosmologists have recently organised several online meetings (Cosmology from home, GR sims in cosmology) that are quite embarrassingly dependent on GAFAM and create new dependencies on non-free software and on new centralised, authoritarian corporations (Zoom/Slack) that violate the principles of participatory, rational, informed, transparent decision-making and communication, in opposition to the widely held ethical principles.

This git repository aims to form a key element of organising an online inhomogeneous cosmology meeting during the COVID-19 epoch, and provide an example for scientists in other fields who may wish to hold similar types of online meetings. Feel free to fork this git repository and/or add ‘issues’ or propose ‘pull requests’.

Known examples of ethical science/software online meetings include:

• DebConf20 using “Jitsi, OBS, Voctomix, SReview, nginx, Etherpad” at ansible;
• Libre Planet 2020 using jitsi, gstreamer, icecast, irc;
• Journées nationales du DEVeloppement 2020 using bbb and other free tools;
• Free and open source software conference 2020 using bbb;
• Art Meets Radical Openness 2020 using bbb+etherpad+peertube;

Near future:

• Vintage Computing Festival Berlin 2020 using wiki+bbb;
• FOSDEM 2021.

Known software and services that are likely to be useful are listed at switching.software and reverseeagle.org.

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