World Social Forum technology & web organizing group - english
from
Mallory Knodel
on Jul 01, 2009 09:41 PM
PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY
Since the successful and important IC meeting in Rabat this past May,
the World Social Forum Communications Committee has asked that working
groups begin forming. There are approximately 8 demarcations within
Com Com, but tasks and scope are obviously overlapping. There is none
such working group with more relevance to the entire WSF process than
the Technology working group, one of the 8 subsets of Com Com, which
itself is a subset of the IC.
For many years, this work has been done by many of you that are still
on the lists. Once again, we're asking for your dedication and
participation to address some immediate technology needs, form larger
more policy-based processes, and define long-term goals with specific
WSF events in mind.
As of immediately, the working group will begin its own set of regular
meetings, tangential to the Com Com weekly chats, use its own tools to
organize and formulate its own strategies for growing membership.
Our next meeting is scheduled for MONDAY JULY 6, 14h UTC to 16h UTC
We connect via IRC chat through irc.oftc.net channel #wsf. Directions
for connection are on the webteam-wiki (URL below).
Please join us for our first meeting online MONDAY 6 July 2009, 14:00
UTC - 16:00 UTC. We plan to follow the agenda below:
1. Introductions
2. Working group regular meetings
a. frequency
b. method
3. Organizing tools
4. Scope of work
5. Growing participation, organizational accountability
It may be that we cannot address all of these general topics in one
meeting. It may also be that everyone has his or her items to add to
this agenda, so please feel free to modify this before we begin our
meeting. An ersatz page for our agendas and notes can be found here:
http://openfsm.net/projects/communication-commission/webteam-wiki
All participants are expected to act as representatives of
organizations within global social movements for the sake of
accountability. However, please send out this call to participation to
anyone that you think would be interested in organizing with us.