[HacktionLab] Organising platforms

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Hi all,

Reel News had a meeting last night and will start involving a lot more 
people than before. So we had the issue of communication come up. We're 
about 12 people atm, and will set up an email list to get everyone in 
touch with everyone.

But then someone suggested a facebook group, and generally people 
responded very positively to that. I raised objections, mostly based on 
not wanting to put our communication infrastructure in the hands of an 
unaccountable corporation, and people seemed happy enough to drop the idea.

Now, I would have loved to suggest an alternative. But nothing that came 
to mind seemed like the obvious choice.

Here is what we'll need: Some kind of events calendar, ideally sortable 
into different sorts of events, and some ability to sign up for doing 
one event or another. Filming at protests, doing stalls at conferences 
and festivals, screenings...

To do lists or similar, where tasks can be assigned to one or more people.

Discussions about different topics, e.g. coverage, outreach, 
subscriptions...

It would be important to have an intuitive user interface, and low 
learning curve to get into it.

It would also be good if it was something that we could either run 
ourselves without much maintenance, or we can back up locally.

Any thoughts?
xmara