how do you do this again?

[randomling]

Making a rare public post. And a rare post, come tot hat.

Like most everyone I've seen post anything on the internet today, I am shocked, I am angry, I am horrified and terrified. I think we need community more than ever. I sure as hell do.

kaberett is holding a very timely love meme. My thread is here, or will be when it's unscreened. I'll try to keep up, but feel free to link me to yours in the comments.

Given that I'm not the only person who's wondering how the hell to make a difference on low-to-no-spoons in this increasingly shitty climate, I've been wondering how to organise that. Because of spoon and brain reasons (I'm not a very steady person, I tend to come and go with interests and I sort of need advance permission to burn out and disappear for large chunks of time) I'd need a co-mod or three and probably some discussion about how to set it up and what we might want to do. I'm thinking of a name like spoonless_activists or something?

The problem with being disabled is we often don't have the spare resources to spend on the stuff that might change the world. But maybe if we organise we could do... something? Even if it becomes a place to signal-boost petitions, fundraisers and community events and nothing more, that's a start. And maybe we can find something to do with it.

What do you think, people? Anyone want to join this effort or have any ideas?

Comments

[rmc28]

I think there have got to be things you can do by online communication alone, as and when you can, and I am personally very interested in finding/building systems that allow people to do so.

I'm thinking:
* helping moderate a community
* organising a community to-do list, and a resource list
* researching existing organisations and models that work well for distributed online contributers (e.g. DW contributers?)
* working up to the kind of things mentioned by davidgillon: research and analysis and written communications

I sort of want a system where people can come and see a list of things they can do, with an estimate of task size, and pick something up and do it. But one of the things to do is keeping that list / estimate up to date, and breaking down tasks into small chunks that can be done ...

[green_knight]

That sounds like a call for a project manager and a good online project management system...

(I, too, am looking for things to do, and a distributed system where I could work as much as I have time/spoons for without letting people down would be ideal.)

[randomling]

Yeah - I have no idea where to find a good project management system, and I'm not sure I have the spoons to do all the project management for an effort like this, but if we could find a way to distribute the project management too it might work.

[randomling]

Yes, this sounds like exactly the kind of thing I wanted to to put together - I think the trick will probably be critical mass of people (so we have enough people/resources to cover the basic needs of keeping the community running even if people are sick or busy or otherwise need to sit out for a bit).

So - yeah, figuring out the list itself and how to maintain it and so on is part of the task, I guess!

The community is incoming. :D