Community Updates

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Glitter Meetup (GM) is the weekly town hall of the Internet Freedom community, attracting digital rights defenders from all corners of the world!!

@ Every Thursday at 9:00am EDT
@ Where On the TCU Mattermost? Secure an account here.
@ Missed a GM? Don't worry the notes of each GM is listed below.

GMs is a place for digital rights defenders to share regional and projects updates, ask questions, share expertise with each other, secure support and resources and, most importantly, connect with other digital rights defenders from all over the world. In addition, we invite featured guest from time to time, giving participants the opportunity to learn from their expertise and ask questions. In addition, once a month, we host a more social GM called The Glitterest GM where you can connect with others in a more organic way. Share a song, share insights about the latest big tech nonense, and ask questions

Upcoming Meetups with Featured Guests

The following are upcoming Glitter Meetups with featured guests and/or topics. GMs happen every Thursday.

October 5, 2023 Glitter Meetup

Glitterest Glitter Meetup

Notes from Past Glitter Meetups

The following are community updates from the weekly Glitter Meetup. If you need to connect to anyone mentioned below, please reach out. We do practice "consensual introductions," meaning we have to check with the person before doing so. No names are associated with the summary notes. Please contact us if you have any questions related to these notes: [email protected]

July 13, 2023 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Juan de Brigard

Topic of Discussion How to tame the algorithm: recommendations to improve the wellbeing and context of delivery app workers


July 6, 2023 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Ayman Makarem

Topic of Discussion Queer Mutual Aid: Challenges of Coordinating Queer Solidarity Efforts Online.


June 29, 2023 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Don Le

Topic of Discussion The Internet Standards Almanac by ARTICLE 19: The how, where, and which Internet infrastructure is standardized


June 22, 2023 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Oscar Maldonado and Derly Sánchez

Topic of Discussion The Labor Reform and gig economy in Colombia - advances and pendings

June 15, 2023 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Julia Choucair Vizoso

Topic of Discussion Abolitionist Creativity - Seizing Knowledge Production in Solidarity with Palestine


June 8, 2023 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest TBA

Topic of Discussion Community Solidarity with Sudan

June 1, 2023 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Vardon Hamdiu

Topic of Discussion Let's explore alternative models to the destructive digital media attention economy through Sparkable


May 25, 2023 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Marwan Kaabour

Topic of Discussion 'Takweer' - Localizing Queer Arab Narratives & Digital Cultures


May 18, 2023 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Aliya Bhatia and Gabriel Nicholas

Topic of Discussion Languages Left Behind: Automated Content Analysis in Non-English Languages


May 11, 2023 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Raquel Saraiva

Topic of Discussion Digital Rights in Brazil and the Platform Regulation Bill Focused on Content Moderation


May 4, 2023 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Cecilia Maundu

Topic of Discussion Digital Dada: Security and Sisterhood in East Africa


April 27, 2023 Glitter Meetup

Team CommUNITY

The Glitterest Glitter Meetup

April 20, 2023 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Sara Zambrano and Ola Bini

Topic of Discussion Ecuador - The digital rights challenges in the country and Ola Bini's case

April 13, 2023 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Gabriel Pereira

Topic of Discussion Understanding (ALPR) as a form of algorithmic surveillance

April 6, 2023 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Soledad Magnone

Topic of Discussion No Minor Futures - fairer digital societies with and for youth


March 30, 2023 Glitter Meetup

Team CommUNITY

The Glitterest Glitter Meetup

March 23, 2023 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest TCU Community Leads

Topic of Discussion Community Health Report Q&A

March 16, 2023 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Alma Rangel

Topic of Discussion "SocorroBot" - A chatbot that guides people who need to report a missing person in México

March 9, 2023 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Amber Sinha & Arindrajit Basu

Topic of Discussion Can groups exercise rights over data?

March 2, 2023 Glitter Meetup

Team CommUNITY

The Glitterest Glitter Meetup: TCU's Global Gathering Q&A

February 23, 2023 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Houry Pilibbossian

Topic of Discussion Perú: The Digital Rights in the Country and in a Social Demonstration Context

February 16, 2023 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Ramy Raoof

Topic of Discussion Everything You Should Know about OTF Free and Open Source Software Sustainability (FOSS) Fund

February 9, 2023 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Houry Pilibbossian

Topic of Discussion Hi Haleb: Mapping Armenian owned shops in Tilel street in Aleppo

February 2, 2023 Glitter Meetup

The TCU Community

Topic of Discussion The Glitterest Glitter Meetup


January 26, 2023 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Lorax Horne

Topic of Discussion How to use the world's largest online library of secrets

January 19, 2023 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Tawanda

Topic of Discussion Digital Society Africa’s (DSA) Framing Digital Security in the Context of Southern Africa: Issues, Challenges and Best Practices January 12, 2023 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Stella Cooper and Ray Adams Row Farr

Topic of Discussion AMA Evidence Lab: feminist and ethical perspectives on OSINT.


December 15, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Laila Yahaya

Topic of Discussion SRHR for LBQT Persons


December 1, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Paul Aguilar

Topic of Discussion Twitter crisis and Mastodon's alternative - How to use it and What can we expect?


November 24, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Raya Sharbain

Topic of Discussion The Tor Project and how it can support our communities


November 17, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Amir Gharabaghi

Topic of Discussion Becoming Your Community’s VPN Provider with WEPN


November 10, 2022 Glitter Meetup

The TCU Community

Topic of Discussion The Glitterest Glitter Meetup


November 9, 2022 AMA: TCU's Next Global Meeting

The TCU Community

Topic of Discussion TCU's Next Global Meeting

November 3, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Anwulika Okonjo

Topic of Discussion Introducing Ijeruka, a digital learning platform centering African knowledge


October 27, 2022 Glitter Meetup

The TCU Community

Topic of Discussion The Glitterest Glitter Meetup


October 20, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Cristian León

Topic of Discussion Digital rights in Bolivia and Datachiri - The dystopian story about a mythological being who steals our personal data


October 13, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Xun-ling

Topic of Discussion Standing with the Milk Tea Alliance: Lessons in allyship


October 6, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Vinicius Fortuna

Topic of Discussion Introducing Outline VPN and the Outline Support Community!


September 29, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Aishatu Gwadabe

Topic of Discussion Quantum Visions of Africanfuturism: Allegories of AI


September 22, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Laila Sit Aboha

Topic of Discussion Palestine under a digital panopticon: what can we do?


September 15, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Vanessa Koetz

Topic of Discussion WhatsApp Pay and financial data monopolies


September 8, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Nancy Reyes Flores

Topic of Discussion Digital Accessibility


September 1, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Favour

Topic of Discussion AI, Emerging technologies and the woman question


July 28, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Idil Galib

Topic of Discussion Introducing The Meme Studies Research Network


July 21, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Hijas de Internet

Topic of Discussion The Internet also belongs to children


July 14, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Paz Peña & Danae Tapia

Topic of Discussion Surveillance in the Anthropocene


July 7, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Chenai Chair

Topic of Discussion Where my data at - Building African feminist resistance to data practices


June 30, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Selma Zaki

Topic of Discussion 2022 Community Health Report


June 23, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Pía Garavaglia

Topic of Discussion Fairwork Argentina and their findings about platform work


June 9, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Ifat Gazia

Topic of Discussion How social media censorship affects dissidents in Kashmir


June 2, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Garnett Achieng

Topic of Discussion Inclusion: Not Just an Add On


May 26, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Moussa

Topic of Discussion Bread&Net Festival - The 5th edition


May 12, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Fenya Fischler

Topic of Discussion Colour of Surveillance Europe Conference


May 5, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Leandro Ucciferri

Topic of Discussion Using Data from Ranking Digital Rights to Make Your Case


April 28, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Raphael Mimoun

Topic of Discussion What's new in Tella 2.0?


April 21, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Claudio Agosti & Laura Carrer

Topic of Discussion Makhno, an experimental content takedown mapper for social media


April 7, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Maya Ninova & Nicholas Merrill

Topic of Discussion Digital Privacy and Security Survey 2021


March 31, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Dr. Gina Helfrich

Topic of Discussion BASICS project


March 24, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Laureen van Breen, Tom Howie, Lucía Ixtacuy

Topic of Discussion The WikiRate project


March 17, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Mohammed Al-Maskati

Topic of Discussion Spyware attacks against human rights defenders in the MENA region


March 3, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Selma Zaki

Topic of Discussion Addressing Burnout


February 24, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Vasilis

Topic of Discussion Pluggable Transports Monthly Meetup


February 17, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Dia Kayyali, dkg

Topic of Discussion The Facebook Papers: thoughts from technologists and activists


February 10, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Fabiola Maurice, Vladimir Cortés and Martha Tudón

Topic of Discussion Circle App


January 27, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Gus Andrews

Topic of Discussion Security in a Box


January 20, 2022 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest Vasilis

Topic of Discussion Pluggable Transports Monthly Meetup


December 9, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Topic of Discussion Community Updates


December 2, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Topic of Discussion Pluggable Transports Monthly Meeting


November 11, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Topic of Discussion Community Updates


November 4, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Topic of Discussion Community Updates


October 28, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Featured Guest David Oliver, Co-Founder & Fabiola Maurice, Community Manager of The Guardian Project

Topic of Discussion Butter App & Butter Box


October 21, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Topic of Discussion Community Updates


October 14, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Topic of Discussion Pluggable Transports


September 30, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Topic of Discussion Community Updates


September 23, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Topic of Discussion Resources for Young Adults


September 16, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Topic of Discussion Lingua Cafe


September 2, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Topic of Discussion Pluggable Transport


July 29, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Community Updates


July 22, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Community Updates


July 15, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Topic of Discussion Bread&Net


July 8, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Topic of Discussion Community Health Report Debrief


July 1, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Community Updates


June 24, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Community Updates


June 17, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Community Updates


June 10, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Community Updates


June 3, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Featured guest Yonah Welker

Topic Algorithmic Diversity: Zero Exclusion, AI & Ethics (AI & Human Rights)


May 27, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Community Updates


May 20, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Community Updates


May 13, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Featured guest Gus Andrews

Topic Feedback on Thunderbird


May 6, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Community Updates


April 29, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Featured guest Tenzin Dolker, Association for Women’s Rights in Development

Topic Feminist funder space and autonomous resourcing


April 22, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Community Updates


April 15, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Community Updates


April 8, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Featured guest Gus Narea

Topic Relaynet


April 1, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Community Updates


March 25, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Community Updates


March 18, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Featured guest Jac sm Kee & Esra'a Al Shafei

Topic Numun Fund


March 11, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Featured guest Karen Reilly

Topic Accessibility Knowledge


March 4, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Community Updates


February 25, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Community Updates


February 11, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Topic Community Health


February 4, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Community Updates


January 28, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Featured guest Gus Andrews

Topic Security Training and Security in a Box


January 14, 2021 Glitter Meetup

Community Updates


December 3, 2020 Glitter Meetup

Featured guest Phyu Phyu Kyaw

Topic The rise of online censorship and surveillance in Myanmar


November 12, 2020 Glitter Meetup

Community Updates


October 29, 2020 Glitter Meetup

Community Updates


October 22, 2020 Glitter Meetup

Featured guest Hapee


October 15, 2020 Glitter Meetup

Topic Improving our work/network on Digital Rights


October 8, 2020 Glitter Meetup

Topic Q&A with TunnelBear

Featured guest Rodrigue Hajjar, TunnelBear’s Director of VPN.


October 1, 2020 Glitter Meetup

Community Updates


September 24, 2020 Glitter Meetup

Community Updates


September 17, 2020 Glitter Meetup

Topic VPN Glitter Meetup


September 10, 2020 Glitter Meetup

Topic Greatfire's AppMaker

Featured guest Greatfire developers


September 3, 2020 Glitter Meetup

Topic Future Skills for Current Challenges


August 27, 2020 Glitter Meetup

Community Updates


August 13, 2020 Glitter Meetup

Topic What is Hong Kong National Security Law

Featured guest Lulu and Kaia, Open Culture Foundation


August 6, 2020 Glitter Meetup

Topic Center for Digital Resilience Help Desk Link

Featured guest CDR staff


July 30, 2020 Glitter Meetup

Topic Self-care


July 16, 2020 Glitter Meetup

Topic Social Media as recordkeepers of activism

Featured guest Isabella, Meedan


July 9, 2020 Glitter Meetup

Community Updates


June 25, 2020 Glitter Meetup

Topic Save Internet Freedom: what's going on with OTF


June 18, 2020 Glitter Meetup

Topic The Onion Browser

Featured guest Fabiola and Benjamin


June 11, 2020 Glitter Meetup

Community Updates


June 4, 2020 Glitter Meetup

Topic Tiananmen Protests Anniversary


May 28, 2020 Glitter Meetup

Topic Trolls and Bullying on the Internet


May 14, 2020 Glitter Meetup

Topic WomenOnWeb Blocking in Spain

Featured guest Vasilis and Samba, Magma


May 7, 2020 Glitter Meetup

Topic Community Prototype Fund - Open Tech Fund

Featured guest Tara Tarakiyee, Program Manager


April 30, 2020 Glitter Meetup

Topic OONI - Open Observatory

Featured guest Maria Xynou and Arturo Filastò


April 23, 2020 Glitter Meetup

Topic: Journalism during quarantine and Low-end Tech


April 16, 2020 Glitter Meetup

Topic: Improvements for IF Funders


April 9, 2020 Glitter Meetup

Topic: Racism in times of COVID-19


April 2, 2020 Glitter Meetup

Topic Contact Tracing Apps

Featured guest Sean McDonald, FrontlineSMS.


Glitter Meetup Notes Before March 26, 2020