Your Digital Legacy
The worksheet!
Your digital media
Documents
Photos
Videos
What is a digital asset?
Items with monetary value
Items with sentimental value
Cryptocurrency, intellectual property, domain names
Digital photos/videos, cloud storage, social media accounts
For some services, memorial/legacy/successor accounts exist
This is the sort of thing that should probably be in a will. I'm not a lawyer, so I'm going to stay out of this.
Apple/iCloud: Digital Legacy program How to add legacy contact
Twitter (good luck) - Contact Twiitter and hope for the best
Instagram: Memorializing an account
Steam is a bit dicey: What happens if a user dies? And another article from Eurogamer
Don't forget! You can still create more!
What is your digital legacy goal?
Where is your stuff?
What do you need to do?
Practical stuff
Bill paying, bank stuff
Passwords, keys, etc
This stuff should be in a will. You should probably make one.
Collect, Connect, Reflect, Select, Protect -
It's not all about you, right?
Family, friends, groups, and others
Fitting your stuff into everyone else
Geneology
Useful to contextualize your digital legacy
There are websites that do this, but I consider this out of scope for this session.
Code!
Are you the random dude from Nebraska? https://xkcd.com/2347/
If you're on GitHub, there's already a feature to help out. GitHub: https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-personal-account-on-github/managing-access-to-your-personal-repositories/maintaining-ownership-continuity-of-your-personal-accounts-repositories
You know, you should probably improve your documentation.....
If you have web sites or apps, do they depend on payments or external intervention to work? Did you write that down anywhere?
Groups
Are you the official secretary or historian of the group?
Share whatever you have with the person that keeps records! They might not have access to things you do.
It's not your job to be the official historian of everything!
Reasons that you might not have your current level of access to technology
Aphasia/brain stuff
Vision issues
Disabilities that affect your ability to type or use a mouse
Other stuff
The walled garden
Are you in a big company's walled garden? (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, etc)
Are you happy with this?
De-clouding and using an independent manager
Possible options:
StoryCorps
Self-directed StoryCorps
Even if you don't use their program, they have some great question prompts: https://storycorps.org/participate/great-questions/
Audio!
Collect
Connect
Reflect
Select
Protect
Context/Metadata!
How to improve your metadata
Art!
Find something that works for you!
In general, folder organization can go a long way!
Think about organization as you create, but don't beat yourself up!
Does your code help people? Tell the story about who your software or work helps and how.
Can anyone help?
Also, Gickup!