[HacktionLab] proposed system for Movement Support Gathering - any interest?

[Mike Harris]

Hi Tom,

My immediate reaction is that we get CiviCRM running on a server
somewhere, possibly the TTFA one, and use that.  That will give us an
out of the box system.  However security and privacy will be an obvious
concern.

If that proves too technically difficult to deal with, then may I
suggest a spreadsheet and laptop on the day to get started.

Cheers,

Mike.

On 19/09/12 15:42, Tom Lord wrote:
> Hiyup,
>
> I'm going to the Movement Support Gathering that Mick mentioned, in a
> few weekends. (hereafter MSG, for brevity and amusement)
>
> I'm excited about the opportunity for The Movement (whatever it is!)
> to start being more savvy about being connected, accessible, aware of
> itself, more able to share resources and ideas, and more strategic.
>
> I'm interested in creating a very simple online directory coming out
> of that meeting, to make it more likely that people and groups will be
> able to find each other in the future and collaborate on radical fun,
> and to see if people find that useful. If that proves to be useful,
> I'd be up for taking it on as a long term project to gather
> requirements from groups / users about how it could work technically
> and politically, and what further features might be useful. In the
> longer term, in my wild dreams, I'm interested to see if groups would
> be up for more connecting of "movement" groups in general, not just
> "movement support" groups.
>
> I'm wondering:
>
> a) if anyone here is up for helping me think through what a sensible
> initial technical platform would be - I'll send a separate email about
> what I reckon would be good initial features / requirements.
>
>
> b) if there are any people (other than me :-) who would be up for at
> least one of:
>
> - helping me to build something before the MSG that we can start to
> use to capture details on the day
>
> - come along to the MSG to help gather requirements and to talk about
> possibilities with groups represented there
>
> - work on it with me afterwards.
>
>
> I have some technical background, and have rarely flexed my tech
> muscles recently; I admit I end up managing far more than developing!
> I'm not a good sysadmin. I'm looking for support locally, and even
> Cambridge seems to have only so many potentially-radical geeks.
>
> Let me know any comments, questions - I'd really be up for chatting
> this through with anyone who's interested in any form, and can set
> aside most of my non-work time between now and the MSG to work on it.
>
> cheers,
> Tom.
>
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