<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello there! <br></div><div><br></div><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We have launched our <a href="https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/tJ1syrqHHwMG7jlva-JD8ZXoAyzzjbQEHHwBqW23gao/" target="_blank">call for pitches for COMPOST Issue 03</a>! </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I’m reaching out to ask if you could share this CFP across your networks — to forward this email to those you think would be interested, or </span><a href="https://twitter.com/COMPOSTmag/status/1572660853606092801" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">retweet</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> or </span><a href="https://social.coop/@compost/109042938465695165" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">retoot</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> us on Twitter and Mastodon. Of course we’d be happy to see a pitch from you as well! All the details are at the bottom of this email.</span></font></p><div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">ALSO, I'll be hosting office hours about the Issue 03 CFP if you or 
anyone you know wants to learn more about it.<br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></font></div><div><b><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">COMPOST ISSUE 03 OFFICE HOURS</span></font></b></div><div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><u>Tuesday 11 October 2022</u></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">15:00 - 16:00 UTC <br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">08:00 - 09:00 AM Los Angeles / Pacific Time <br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">11:00 - 12:00 PM New York / Eastern Time <br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">12:00 - 1:00 PM Buenos Aires / Sao Paolo <br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">05:00 - 06:00 PM Berlin / CET <br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">08:30 - 09:30 PM Bangalore</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Meeting link (Big Blue Button): <a href="https://link.hypha.coop/compost-calls" target="_blank">https://link.hypha.coop/compost-calls</a><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Thanks, and hope you are all staying well.  ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Warmly,</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Mai<br></span></font></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><br></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">*~*~ COMPOST ISSUE 03 Call for Proposals ~*~*</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Our theme for our third issue is </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Water Bodies</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and the deadline to submit a pitch is </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">19 OCTOBER 2022</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, end of day wherever you are. </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Details and submission form here: </span><a href="https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/3/form/view/c3ca9e794c5790615c1bcc230e936a8b/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></a><a href="https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/tJ1syrqHHwMG7jlva-JD8ZXoAyzzjbQEHHwBqW23gao/" target="_blank">https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/tJ1syrqHHwMG7jlva-JD8ZXoAyzzjbQEHHwBqW23gao/</a></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Here is the description of the theme: </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This page is brought to you by a million liters of water. Sourced from lakes, rivers, and oceans, it cools the data centers that store these bits you see. It’s boiled into steam, turns turbines for the electricity that powers your device, the router it connects to, and every whirring, beating part of the network that brings you these words. Meanwhile, droughts, contamination, and rising sea levels continue to creep us towards a boiling point of human and non-human suffering. Only through crises are we pressed to reckon with our negligent stewardship of this element of life.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For Issue 03, we are searching for the material in our networks. The water in the cloud. The way our relationship with all earthly offerings is reflected in the webs we are building.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are interested in creative and critical pieces that explore:</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Water as an intrinsic component to digital technology and network infrastructure.</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Histories of waterways as networks of trade, communication, and sites of ritual.</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Community resilience and organizing in the face of mismanaged water systems.</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Inherited legacies of how our ancestors stewarded and cared for bodies of water.</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* A focus on water as a means to process our impact on this planet and each other.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In our third issue, we want to acknowledge ourselves as, and our relationships with, water bodies.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are looking for works that are approachable, intimate, and grounded in experience. We encourage contributors to examine the Web from a place of abundance, to reflect on the projects, communities, technologies, protocols, and networks that enable authentic and trustful connections.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ABOUT THE PROJECT</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font size="2"><a href="https://compost.digital/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">COMPOST</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> is a magazine about the digital commons. We approach the publication as a process to metabolize and renew our relationships with the Web, to imagine and build interdependent, equitable, and solidarity-based systems of communication and knowledge sharing.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This magazine is a pilot of </span><a href="https://distributed.press" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Distributed Press</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, an open source publishing tool for the World Wide Web and </span><a href="https://getdweb.net/principles/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Decentralized Web</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. The overall mission of Distributed Press is to build digital publishing infrastructure that is managed collectively and horizontally, where participatory governance creates the feedback loops necessary to respond to the evolving needs of authors and readers. </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">PARTICIPATION & COMPENSATION</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* $300 USD flat for participation in development of this project.</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* $100 ~ $600 USD for creative works.</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As a contributor to COMPOST, you will also participate in strategic decision making and share in the financial success of the magazine. In addition to the time you devote to creating your piece, we ask you to commit another (roughly) six hours to COMPOST before we launch. We will compensate you for this time. </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">CONTACT</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please get in touch at hello@compost.digital for any questions or concerns. We are happy to hear from you.</span></font></p><font size="2"><br><br></font></div><br></div>