Hi everyone, For quite some time I've been interested in advocating for Free Software tools in group organizing. I don't mean just advocating for the principle, but literally and operationally rolling out working options for the groups we organize ourselves, or those we participate in.
It seems like groups reflexively use Facebook for outreach and event management, Google Drive for media storage, and Google Docs for collective editing. Tools for messaging and voice are more varied. Fortunately, there are many Free alternatives. I've been trying to roll out a competing Free ensemble for the groups I work with, and I've run into a number of issues. What is the best deployment strategy? How do I become familiar with the details of using the tool, so I can give my colleagues a mature, seamless experience? If I don't really know the tool well myself and I'm figuring it out as I go, it won't give a very good impression. I'd like to ask this community's help and involvement, not just for my own benefit but to create an online resource that would recommend to people--including non-admins--clearly and directly how to roll out a useful ensemble of tools. By definition, it's hard to test groupware by oneself! I'm envisioning a group of people who collaborate to do groupware setup and testing in order to recommend workable practices. We would document these choices on a wiki somewhere (somewhere in the LibrePlanet universe of wikis?). We would probably have online meetings from time to time (if only to test out voice or video calls). If you're interested, send me a note off-list. Our first task will be...to figure out the collaboration tools we'll use ourselves! Thanks! Jim Garrett Boston area, USA _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
