From obara.justin Wed Jul 9 12:46:51 2025 From: obara.justin (Justin Obara) Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2025 08:46:51 -0400 Subject: Community Meeting ( July 15 ): From Fragments to Fractals: Peer-Led AI, Storytelling, and Inclusive Mental Health Futures Message-ID: At next week?s Community Meeting ( July 15, 2025 ) Tracy Windsor will be talking about From Fragments to Fractals (FFtF). Please see the description and attachments for further details. Description: From obara.justin Mon Jul 14 13:46:45 2025 From: obara.justin (Justin Obara) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 09:46:45 -0400 Subject: Community Meeting ( July 15 ): From Fragments to Fractals: Peer-Led AI, Storytelling, and Inclusive Mental Health Futures In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <32251393-A5B0-4C56-9A27-C59A771F71AE@gmail.com> Reminder about the community meeting taking place tomorrow from 2 - 3pm ET in Zoom . See below for details. Thanks Justin > On Jul 9, 2025, at 8:46?AM, Justin Obara wrote: > > At next week?s Community Meeting ( July 15, 2025 ) Tracy Windsor will be talking about From Fragments to Fractals (FFtF). Please see the description and attachments for further details. > > Description: > > From Fragments to Fractals (FFtF) is a participatory research and storytelling project that gathers, traces, and synthesizes diverse knowledge fragments related to mental health broadly, and a particular focus on psychosis, and peer support?from training manuals to academic articles to lived experience reflections in recorded interviews, focus groups, etc. Will likely use AI for analysis, which the tools for REFRACT AI will be trained on. > > The project centers liberatory ethics, values consent and citation, and aims to build an open-source repository that honors grassroots wisdom alongside academic knowledge. While the initial phase focuses on psychosis-related materials, the platform is designed to grow and welcome content across mental health, social care, and community healing spaces. > > REFRACT AI is the digital constellation that will emerge from this repository: a peer-led, modular suite of tools that support narrative exploration, skills practice (e.g. DBT/CBT), decision-making, and ethical system navigation. These tools adapt to user role (peer supporter, clinician, etc.) and are grounded in inclusive, relational design practices. > > Will share the conceptual foundations of both projects and open up space for dialogue on: > Designing backend source-tracking and consent infrastructure > Honoring lived experience and co-creation in AI training > Building accessibility and responsiveness into mental health technologies from the ground up > > > Time: > 2:00 - 3:00pm ET > > Location: > Remotely: Zoom > > Please visit the Inclusive Design Critiques and Workshops wiki page, for more information including the schedule of upcoming events. > > Contributions are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International?License and follow the Fluid and Inclusive Design Community Code of?Conduct . (Note: some demonstrated/presented or discussed software, hardware, research, tools and etc, may have their own license.) > > Thanks > Justin > > <250707 DRAFT FFtF Project Proposal.pdf> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From obara.justin Tue Jul 15 18:05:09 2025 From: obara.justin (Justin Obara) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 14:05:09 -0400 Subject: Community Meeting ( July 15 ): From Fragments to Fractals: Peer-Led AI, Storytelling, and Inclusive Mental Health Futures In-Reply-To: <32251393-A5B0-4C56-9A27-C59A771F71AE@gmail.com> References: <32251393-A5B0-4C56-9A27-C59A771F71AE@gmail.com> Message-ID: <8E13F62A-C155-493D-83EB-99AB2BF77BF6@gmail.com> Sorry the wrong link was sent before. The correct zoom room is https://ocadu.zoom.us/j/84955597918?pwd=phsalHsuBb1goiSM40IhEvEuq5dl05.1 > On Jul 14, 2025, at 9:46?AM, Justin Obara wrote: > > Reminder about the community meeting taking place tomorrow from 2 - 3pm ET in Zoom . See below for details. > > Thanks > Justin > >> On Jul 9, 2025, at 8:46?AM, Justin Obara wrote: >> >> At next week?s Community Meeting ( July 15, 2025 ) Tracy Windsor will be talking about From Fragments to Fractals (FFtF). Please see the description and attachments for further details. >> >> Description: >> >> From Fragments to Fractals (FFtF) is a participatory research and storytelling project that gathers, traces, and synthesizes diverse knowledge fragments related to mental health broadly, and a particular focus on psychosis, and peer support?from training manuals to academic articles to lived experience reflections in recorded interviews, focus groups, etc. Will likely use AI for analysis, which the tools for REFRACT AI will be trained on. >> >> The project centers liberatory ethics, values consent and citation, and aims to build an open-source repository that honors grassroots wisdom alongside academic knowledge. While the initial phase focuses on psychosis-related materials, the platform is designed to grow and welcome content across mental health, social care, and community healing spaces. >> >> REFRACT AI is the digital constellation that will emerge from this repository: a peer-led, modular suite of tools that support narrative exploration, skills practice (e.g. DBT/CBT), decision-making, and ethical system navigation. These tools adapt to user role (peer supporter, clinician, etc.) and are grounded in inclusive, relational design practices. >> >> Will share the conceptual foundations of both projects and open up space for dialogue on: >> Designing backend source-tracking and consent infrastructure >> Honoring lived experience and co-creation in AI training >> Building accessibility and responsiveness into mental health technologies from the ground up >> >> >> Time: >> 2:00 - 3:00pm ET >> >> Location: >> Remotely: Zoom >> >> Please visit the Inclusive Design Critiques and Workshops wiki page, for more information including the schedule of upcoming events. >> >> Contributions are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International?License and follow the Fluid and Inclusive Design Community Code of?Conduct . (Note: some demonstrated/presented or discussed software, hardware, research, tools and etc, may have their own license.) >> >> Thanks >> Justin >> >> <250707 DRAFT FFtF Project Proposal.pdf> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From obara.justin Wed Jul 23 13:05:07 2025 From: obara.justin (Justin Obara) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 09:05:07 -0400 Subject: Community Meeting ( July 29 ): Exploring the experiences of racialized children and youth with disabilities with a Canadian national survey Message-ID: <99338584-A31C-4CEC-A220-E75E6D11283B@gmail.com> At next week?s Community Meeting ( July 29, 2025 ) De-Lawrence Lamptey will be talking about Exploring the experiences of racialized children and youth with disabilities with a Canadian national survey. Time: 2:00 - 3:00pm ET Location: Remotely: Zoom Please visit the Inclusive Design Critiques and Workshops wiki page, for more information including the schedule of upcoming events. 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Thanks Justin > On Jul 23, 2025, at 9:05?AM, Justin Obara wrote: > > At next week?s Community Meeting ( July 29, 2025 ) De-Lawrence Lamptey will be talking about Exploring the experiences of racialized children and youth with disabilities with a Canadian national survey. > > > Time: > 2:00 - 3:00pm ET > > Location: > Remotely: Zoom > > Please visit the Inclusive Design Critiques and Workshops wiki page, for more information including the schedule of upcoming events. > > Contributions are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International?License and follow the Fluid and Inclusive Design Community Code of?Conduct . (Note: some demonstrated/presented or discussed software, hardware, research, tools and etc, may have their own license.) > > Thanks > Justin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From obara.justin Wed Jul 30 14:27:36 2025 From: obara.justin (Justin Obara) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 10:27:36 -0400 Subject: Potential mailing list and chat infrastructure changes Message-ID: Hi everyone, I?ve recently sent out some messages on the fluid-work matrix channel, but will summarize things here as well. These are related to potential changes to the mailing list and matrix chat. Mailing list: We're starting to explore migrating the fluid-work mailing list from mailman to either groups.io or Gaggle Mail . These services provide free mailing lists with various limitations. groups.io is limited to less that 100 members while Gaggle has 1000 member limit. In both cases the mailing list address will change as the free tiers do not support custom domains. The mailman instance currently being used incurs an annual cost and comes with the same user limit as Gaggle mail. It does allow for a custom domain though. Matrix Chat: Matrix is transitioning to a freemium model. It seems they are expecting this transition to complete over the summer. ( see: https://matrix.org/blog/2025/06/funding-homeserver-premium/#when-will-the-new-plans-take-effect ) The details aren't all entirely clear. It seems that their free plans won't include public rooms. ( see: https://matrix.org/homeserver/pricing/ ) However, I'm not sure what that would mean for existing rooms. That being said it's probably best to prepare and begin transitioning to another chat service. At the IDRC we've had an initial talk about exploring zulip . It looks like, as an open-source project, Fluid should qualify for a free standard plan. If you have any questions, concerns, or would like to propose any alternatives for these please let us know. Thanks Justin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From obara.justin Wed Jul 30 17:43:42 2025 From: obara.justin (Justin Obara) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 13:43:42 -0400 Subject: Potential mailing list and chat infrastructure changes In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I was reviewing Gaggle Email after sending out the previous update. It seems that in the free plan you can?t send messages directly through email except for individuals with paid pro accounts. You?d have to use the website to send messages. This would seem like a deal breaker to me, but am curious what others think. There?s still the option of migrating to Groups.io . Although it would depend on how many subscribers migrate as there would be a 100 user limit. Another option could be something like GitHub Discussions . Thanks Justin > On Jul 30, 2025, at 10:27?AM, Justin Obara wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I?ve recently sent out some messages on the fluid-work matrix channel, but will summarize things here as well. These are related to potential changes to the mailing list and matrix chat. > > Mailing list: > > We're starting to explore migrating the fluid-work mailing list from mailman to either groups.io or Gaggle Mail . These services provide free mailing lists with various limitations. groups.io is limited to less that 100 members while Gaggle has 1000 member limit. In both cases the mailing list address will change as the free tiers do not support custom domains. > > The mailman instance currently being used incurs an annual cost and comes with the same user limit as Gaggle mail. It does allow for a custom domain though. > > Matrix Chat: > > Matrix is transitioning to a freemium model. It seems they are expecting this transition to complete over the summer. ( see: https://matrix.org/blog/2025/06/funding-homeserver-premium/#when-will-the-new-plans-take-effect ) The details aren't all entirely clear. It seems that their free plans won't include public rooms. ( see: https://matrix.org/homeserver/pricing/ ) However, I'm not sure what that would mean for existing rooms. That being said it's probably best to prepare and begin transitioning to another chat service. At the IDRC we've had an initial talk about exploring zulip . It looks like, as an open-source project, Fluid should qualify for a free standard plan. > > If you have any questions, concerns, or would like to propose any alternatives for these please let us know. > > Thanks > Justin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: