[HacktionLab] can we recommend crabgrass still? is the current version being maintained?

[Tom Lord]

It seems to be my job to redirect people to tools today :-)  Here's 
another one!

On 04/06/13 13:30, Ruben Pollan wrote:
> Quoting Tom Lord (2013-06-04 13:43:12)
>>> I've had a lot of success with http://co-activate.org for community
>>> group organising; mostly because it provides self-manage mailing lists
>>> for projects.
>>>
>>> Its an instance of a piece of free software called OpenCore that's made
>>> out of the Plone CMS which I know nothing about. I guess we could chat
>>> about running an instance of it as a crabgrass alternative.
>>
>>
>> Think that's http://coactivate.org having poked about :-)
>
> At spain the most of the activists use https://n-1.c/
>
> It is an installation of lorea.org, free software development by hacktivists
> based on elgg.

I think it's https://n-1.cc


Personally, I think sharing experience of collaboration tools like this 
and being able to talk to groups about their pros and cons and being 
aware of the level of tech barriers to entry for each, is/would be a 
GREAT resource. Kind of like the tech review that Mick has a workshop 
on, and made concrete like "online resource put together during 
gathering to show how different people get different things done".

I think a lot of groups flounder around at the basic "getting our shit 
together" stage and quickly hit barriers like drowning in email, or not 
being able to remember who said they would be buying the sledgehammers, 
or no-one being able to edit the web page for 5 months because Freddy 
moved to f*ing London :-)  Obviously this is not the only reason groups 
flounder. However the tech side of things is a noticeable chunk of being 
able to organise, in my experience.

cheers,
Tom.