Event:2014/09/29 Communication Committee Mtg
Details
- 7:30pm in sudo room.
- Participate virtually via https://pad.riseup.net/p/omnicomms
OmniComms Mtg 9/29/14
Attendees
- Yar, Jenny, Niki
Agenda
- New mailing lists and email server are set up - how to proceed?
- New domain and scrubbing the site to change 'Omni Collective' to 'Omni Commons'
- New calendar and event booking system
- http://cal.omni-oakland.org
- http://booking.omni-oakland.org
- switch to reserve.omnicommons.org?
- Weekly newsletter
Mailing Lists
- Ballroom vs Booking - how to balance transparency and privacy?
- Private Booking list that the forms go to
- Omnilogistics becomes...?
- Omni-discuss, omni-consensus (for proposals), omni-confidential (for things like inspection details or talking about potential new groups without being overheard)
- Add a footer disclaimer to omni-confidential, eg 'We recognize that email communications can occasionally be taken out of context. If you've received this email from an address other than omni-confidential@lists.omnicommons.org...
- Omni-discuss, omni-consensus (for proposals), omni-confidential (for things like inspection details or talking about potential new groups without being overheard)
- How to migrate folks to the new system
- Subscribe everyone to Announce and announce the new lists
- Will have the double effect of encouraging those on the fringes to join working groups!
- Send an invite to each of the existing lists
- Subscribe everyone to Announce and announce the new lists
- How to mitigate trolls and encourage real discussion and work
- Welcome email articulating best practices, like: 1) how do-ocracy works (if you request something to be done, you've just volunteered), 2) providing proper context [links to wiki documentation, relevant archived threads, etc], and 3) how to just view the archives
- What happens to the old lists?
- Put the archives on a private list that only previous list members can view
- OR, keep everyone subscribed and include a link to a list's riseup archives in the new archive page
- Moderate all emails henceforth so we don't have double-lists
Action Items
- Footer disclaimer to omni-confidential (Jenny)
- Delete logistics, create discuss [yar]
- Subscribe everyone on omnilogistics to Announce [yar]
- Welcome email [jenny & yar]
- Put links to old archive [jenny]
- Follow up with working groups [jenny and yar]
- Subdomains -> Subdirectories [jenny and yar]
- Design for booking/reservation site [you? contact Jenny]
- Update form for booking/reservation site [you comfortable with php forms? contact Jenny]
- Import BAPS calendar to new calendar [jenny]
- Request descriptions of spaces from the list, including specifically: capacity, square footage, possible/general usages, available amenities, find a nice photo of each space [jenny]
Omni Mailing Lists Welcome Email
Hi and welcome to the digital incarnation of the Omni Commons! We're excited to announce our public deployment of our self-hosted mailing list server. You can now easily subscribe (or unsubcribe!) from a variety of Omni mailing lists at https://omnicommons.org/lists We invite you to create mailing lists for your projects, however off-the-wall, at the aforementioned URL. Some guidelines for posting to our mailing lists:
- If you suggest it, you've just volunteered to help make it happen! We love do-ocracy, and encourage people to spearhead the implementation of ideas they have while in the space.
- Please, always assume good faith especially when offering constructive criticism. We are all in this together!
- Provide context in discussions by linking to previous posts and archived documentation.
- You can view our soon-to-be-deprecated-yet-
preserved list archives, soon, via a link on each list's archival page. You can view and sign up for our new mailing lists at the following address: http://omnicommons.org/lists Please sign up for any working groups you feel inclined to participate in!