<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Hi all,</font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">My name is Jessica Feldman - I'm a professor at the American University of Paris in the Communications Dept. I research how community groups (particularly those with democratic and left politics) design tech, which designs work and don't work for them, etc. (I've also been slowly working with some engineers back in my hometown of NYC on an encrypted mobile mesh network, although that is going very slowly...) I've met or talked to a few of you here & there. </font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">I'm coming by battlemesh this afternoon and really looking forward to the talks. </span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">I'm currently also involved in this research project, which is about how to define and fund "open source critical digital infrastructure". </font><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">(This is the
project: <a href="https://pacscenter.stanford.edu/research/digital-civil-society-lab/mapping-policy-infrastructure-2/">https://pacscenter.stanford.edu/research/digital-civil-society-lab/mapping-policy-infrastructure-2/</a>.
It’s funded by the Ford Foundation:
<a href="https://www.fordfoundation.org/ideas/equals-change-blog/posts/announcing-13m-in-funding-for-digital-infrastructure-research/">https://www.fordfoundation.org/ideas/equals-change-blog/posts/announcing-13m-in-funding-for-digital-infrastructure-research/</a>). </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I'm trying to interview people who are involved in building such projects to learn what they think of as critical, and how they fund/sustain their projects (or how they want to.) We're particularly interested in the importance of nfp/open-source projects for practicing progressive (define that as you like) politics. I was anyone out there would be interested in having a chat/coffee/interview about some of these questions in the next days (I'm based in Paris so I'm around.) Happy to tell you more about the research, send my questions and privacy practices,
etc, and answer any questions you might have about it. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Please reach out if you are able to chat! All my various contact info is below. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I have a really bright orange bag and am easy to find for that reason, also:)</span></div>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">All the best,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Jessica Feldman</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">--</p><div>whatsapp / signal +1 646 637 8380</div><div>phone: +33 6 99 78 30 88</div><div>--</div><div><br></div><div><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Jessica Feldman</font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Assistant Professor</font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Department of Global Communications</font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">American University of Paris</font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.aup.edu/profile/jfeldman" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.aup.edu/profile/jfeldman</a><br></font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="gmail-il">Affiliated</span> <span class="gmail-il">Researcher</span></font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Digital Civil Society Lab</font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Stanford University</font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><a href="https://pacscenter.stanford.edu/person/jessica-feldman/" target="_blank">https://pacscenter.stanford.edu/person/jessica-feldman/</a><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="mailto:jfeldman@aup.edu" target="_blank">jfeldman@aup.edu</a></font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><a href="mailto:jessfeld@stanford.edu" target="_blank">jessfeld@stanford.edu</a> </p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="mailto:feldman@protonmail.com" target="_blank">feldman@protonmail.com</a></font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="mailto:feldman.jm@gmail.com" target="_blank">feldman.jm@gmail.com</a></font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">pgp fingerprint: <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">67F4 11DF EF37 968E 74D4  6450 74E8 EB3C 7731 FF80</span></font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">She/Hers/Her</font></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><table class="gmail-Bs gmail-nH gmail-iY gmail-bAt" cellpadding="0" 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