Event:2014/05/12 Communications Committee Meeting

Details

• Monday, May 12 @ 7pm @ 2141 Broadway (Public School Room)

Notes

• Update from Challenging Dominant Culture Working Group
  • Hold the next meeting, and future meetings, before the Omni Collective's weekly meeting, from 5pm-7pm
  • In terms of communication:
    • The meeting is the primary existence of the Omni Collective right now, and to focus on it as such.
    • Take materials that were started last Thursday and translate them into plain English, and other languages, like Spanish.
    • Translate out of communique and in to the heart of it, underneath, more precise language.
  • Plan to be conscious and imagine something Thursday, and how the work of the communications group can fit in.
  • Specific folks in the Challenging Dominant Culture group intend to get directly involved with the communications group.
• Website
  • What are we finished with?
    • Language (very simple, truthful)
      • Made a lot of progress
    • Assets are finished
    • NOT DONE - Collective's statement, basic info
      • Name, header sentence, description paragraphs, "status", "contact", website URL, and updates for collective's wiki page, optional image(s).
      • example: http://oomni.github.io/bhc.html
  • Feature Requests:
    • Multiple languages
      • Ask for translators for non-english
    • Change the gallery into a grid
    • Change the calls to action ?
    • Add member content
    • Improve Donation experience
      • Create a landing page for donations, include omni-oakland.org/donate
    • Update text based on language session (ask Jenny for source?)

Goals

• First duty is to knock out a website and press release by Friday
  • changed "press release" to community messages, primarily over email
  • pressure for website is a bit less of a rush at moment, but we're going to proceed to stand up a basic site, to coincide with move-in announcement
  • in parallel, start engage in longer-term community design process, which entails:
    • Send a call for participation for on-going, open call for general omni-based design inspirations (not just the website).
      • In particular, our first call is for Monday, 5/19, please send designs, examples, or anything that speaks to you, and a few sentences why!
    • Intention is over time to come up with some more polished designs later on down the line, TBD.
• Solicit more FAQs
• Build curriculum for communications, and implement that curriculum.
  • E.g. workshops on basic usage for:
    • github.com for website http://oomni.github.io/
    • git
    • mediawiki http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/
      • vicky wiki workshop?
      • just documentation?!
    • etherpads, e.g. https://pad.riseup.net/
    • google docs
      • spreadsheets
      • shared drive
    • riseup lists https://list.riseup.net/
      • email ettiquette
      • expectations
      • web interface
• IT infrastructure
  • Started a "wishlist" https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Network/Reboot

Action Items

• Elaine to get info for each member page:
  • Name, header sentence, description paragraphs, "status", "contact", website URL, and updates for collective's wiki page, optional image(s).
  • example: http://oomni.github.io/bhc.html
  • See also http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Collectives
• Joel - send announcement of "call for participation" as described above && also add ask for translators
  • • Internal Communications
• Everybody - finish language for website, due 5/13
• Matt - finish site functionality, due 5/13
• Open discussion at next Omni Collective meeting.
  • Now that we have 700 ways to communicate with each other, we need to make some decisions, learn, listen, and get into good cultural practice for communication and collaboration!
    • What do we need?
    • What has been an issue?
    • What do we do to ensure needs are met?
    • How do we make communication with and within the Omni Collective an inclusive and empowering experience with levity and brevity at heart?