[occupyaustin-it] Status (Nov 8 late am)

Tue Nov 8 16:05:05 CST 2011

I can carry 3.  Also @ GA tonite..

-Boyd

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Gregory Foster <gfoster at entersection.org>wrote:

>  FYI, my vehicle is full for transport from/to CH.  I'll be there in time
> for the 7pm GA on what is being referred to as "exile island" (the traffic
> island/park across from CH).
>
> re: "leaderFULL movements" New Organizing Institute<http://neworganizing.com/>[
> @NewOrganizing <http://twitter.com/neworganizing> ] is hosting a panel
> discussion including #OWS and #WIunion organizers on Nov 16.  This is the
> kind of content I will forward to the interocc(upation) mailing list.
> Livestream registration:
> http://act.neworganizing.com/survey/nof_streamNov11/
>
> gf
>
>
> On 11/8/11 2:06 PM, Alan Viosca wrote:
>
> I plan on attending the Hackerspace meeting tonight. I actually just
> realized that I live *very *close to it, so I'll most likely be riding my
> bike there. However I can give people rides if needed, because I'd like to
> see as many people as possible there. So, if you live on the north side,
> and have no other way to get there, let me know and I can help ya out.
>
>  On a more related note: Awesome summary of what has been going on so
> far. I can't wait to see what everyone has to bring to the table on
> Wednesday. This is slowly becoming what I wished my engineering education
> had been all along.
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Gregory Foster <gfoster at entersection.org>wrote:
>
>>  Hello Occupy Austin IT/Communications Infrastructure team,
>> We're at 48 members.  Tonight (Tuesday) we are visiting the ATX
>> Hackerspace <http://www.atxhackerspace.org/wiki/Main_Page>'s open house
>> to learn about their impressive shared capital resources and means of
>> self-organizing.  Their weekly member meeting<http://www.atxhackerspace.org/wiki/Meetings>runs from 7:30-8pm if you'd like to witness how they operate.  At 8pm we
>> can expect a guided tour of the facilities.  Folks interested in becoming
>> members pay their first month's fee ($25-40 sliding scale), fill out an
>> application, and then socialize with existing members to gain their
>> signature of approval; 7 signatures are required.  Finally, a 24 hour
>> comment period is opened on their mailing list<http://groups.google.com/group/austin-hacker-space>to enable members to vocalize any concerns.  Then you are awarded a key
>> card for 24/7 access to the space and can bring two visitors.  An initial
>> shop safety class is required, which can be taught by any member who has
>> already received the training.  Tool-specific courses are taught on an
>> as-needed basis.  I will be picking up Jimmy and Jonathan at City Hall,
>> leaving around 7:15pm w/ room for one more; Boyd is picking up Nolan.
>>
>> Tomorrow night (Wednesday) we have our weekly meetup at AllCity
>> Technology <http://www.allcitytech.com/> [ map<http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=206440798958045355858.0004b10cec759958ca307&msa=0>] starting at 6pm.  This will be our second Wednesday meetup, and there is
>> no set agenda and/or form that has emerged at this time.  Some items of
>> note:
>>
>>    1. We need to verify the functionality of one of the small laser
>>    printers for the City Hall (CH) welcome desk.  Then we need to deliver our
>>    solution on the ground at CH.
>>     2. Anton, magnet for the web team, will be visiting to learn about
>>    the IT team and solicit help.  Boyd and I met with Anton last night to hear
>>    about his needs and invited him to come talk to us.  If you are a WordPress
>>    developer, content wrangler, or would simply like to help Anton manage the
>>    influx of communications he receives on the info at occupyaustin.orgaccount, I encourage you to come hear him out.
>>     3. The IT Assets working group (previously referenced as Support)
>>    has a mountain of hardware we have been granted and is beginning to piece
>>    together functioning servers and desktop systems.  You will be amazed at
>>    what has been donated thus far.  We should probably have a conversation
>>    about what we plan to do with the functional, non-functional, and extra
>>    items.
>>    4. Boyd has also indicated he will be REALLY stepping down from local
>>    OA IT magnet responsibilities to focus on the meta/national work emerging
>>    here in Austin.  I'm going to ask him to introduce the IT team to that work
>>    as there may be opportunities for paid positions and collaboration.
>>    5. Cesar Fuentez has indicated he needs to take a health and life
>>    break from OA, and will be unavailable as an IT magnet for about a week.
>>    He has also stated he will be migrating to other responsibilities, so I've
>>    asked that we revisit his role on the IT team upon his return.
>>
>> Per my email from last night, I have provisioned dedicated mailing lists
>> for most of the identified IT working groups.  As Alan indicated, we are
>> producing a lot of email on this mailing list and participation in the
>> occupation more generally increases communications load.  Although creation
>> of a bevy of new mailing lists may not seem to help that at first glance, I
>> believe we can make it work to our advantage:
>>
>>    1. I'm assigning mailing list administrative responsibilities to each
>>    working group's magnets.  They are free to configure and use their mailing
>>    lists as they see fit.
>>    2. I encourage the working groups to use the mailing lists for
>>    internal discussion.  If you're interested in a subject area, sign up.
>>    Please cc: the main list for items which need to be brought to the
>>    attention of the entire IT team.  I've configured the main list to
>>    exclude re-sending emails<http://physics.berkeley.edu/mailman/admin/grads2011/?VARHELP=nondigest/regular_exclude_lists>if you are a member of a working group in the To: or Cc: header.
>>    3. We are starting to see folks outside of the IT team express
>>    interest in tapping into the working groups but won't want to deal with the
>>    full list traffic (e.g.: the sustainable power generation working group is
>>    interacting with folks in the biking and solar power communities).
>>    4. The IT team is getting large enough that we need to encourage
>>    subdivision and autonomy - otherwise we're going to have folks who want to
>>    contribute sitting idle.  This is a step in that direction, and we need you
>>    to opt-in to help where you can and want.  We are free to spin up or spin
>>    down working groups at any time.
>>
>> Without further ado, here are the working groups and their mailing lists:
>>
>>    - http://foojutsu.org/mailman/listinfo/occupyaustin-it
>>     - http://foojutsu.org/mailman/listinfo/occupyaustin-it-apps
>>     - http://foojutsu.org/mailman/listinfo/occupyaustin-it-assets
>>    - http://foojutsu.org/mailman/listinfo/occupyaustin-it-freedom_network
>>    - http://foojutsu.org/mailman/listinfo/occupyaustin-it-interocc
>>    - http://foojutsu.org/mailman/listinfo/occupyaustin-it-power
>>    - http://foojutsu.org/mailman/listinfo/occupyaustin-it-uas
>>    - http://foojutsu.org/mailman/listinfo/occupyaustin-livestream
>>
>> For completeness, here are the other OA lists we're currently running:
>>
>>    - http://foojutsu.org/mailman/listinfo/occupyaustin-infoscribes(likely will be private)
>>     - http://foojutsu.org/mailman/listinfo/occupyaustin-reading (reading
>>    group)
>>     - http://foojutsu.org/mailman/listinfo/occupyaustin-volunteers(volunteers, donations, calls to action)
>>
>> For the majority of these lists, the magnets/administrators have just
>> been informed of their creation so don't expect to find too much
>> descriptive information about their purpose just yet nor archives to
>> review.  We'll probably discuss the mailing list facet of things tonight
>> and Wednesday.
>>
>> I'm going to move forward with designation of Tim, Alan, Charles, and
>> Nolan as magnets.  To reiterate what I think that means: *Perks of that
>> designation include association w/ the IT at occupyaustin.org email alias
>> (often first point of contact), ability to speak on behalf of IT team at
>> GAs, responsibility for our welcome at AllCity, and a heightened sense of
>> responsibility/engagement with this team's efforts.  The call for magnets
>> at the team and working group level should be considered always open.*
>> However, it should be noted that I just made that shit up.  I'm happy to
>> host a conversation about this if/when the team would like.  As someone on
>> the national IT call said on Saturday night, "we are not a leaderless
>> movement, we are a leaderful movement" and that introduces its own
>> challenges we are figuring out as we go along.  As always, I need and
>> welcome feedback from the team.
>>
>> See y'all tonight!
>> gf
>>
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