Quick question I’d like to ask this community: what are your thoughts on communicating to those outside the FoC community and even outside computing and programming? I.e. family and friends. It’s such a sprawling and deep topic it’s hard to know where to start when trying to get across the excitement, potential, the travesty of the current state of affairs, etcetera. What’s worked? What hasn’t?

My go-to's (ha!) are knowledge anchors (current problems) and analogies (vision). Could start from: "Do you know why your printer/bluetooth/some website/whatever fail or sub perform all the time?", "What's up with restarting your laptop on every update?", "Why can't you count how many new instagram followers you had in the last month? And keep a rolling count", "Why can't you send a photo to your phone or friend in one touch?", "Could you disable some tv channels for your young kids on demand?" But yeah I don't find it easy either. And also the technical level of the audience.

@Ricardo A. Medina these are good, I like the division into problems and analogies too. I wonder what other broad categories there are here. It may be a good use of my time to try and collect some of these and organise them a little in a shareable place