kee-proposal
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Follow up activities
- ☑Prepare the live Discourse server for general availability in February + provide admin/root access for other people.
- ☑Check plugins to enable cross-posting between Discord and Discourse.
Create a communication guide to define the flow of information and how Discord and Discourse fulfill their roles (may be done once we're more familiar with Discourse).- ☑Checkout the already existing methods to enable distributed decision making (discuss further in general assembly meetings).
- ☑Write a post about the survey and co-initiative in the Global TZM Facebook Group.
- ☑After a few days the post in the Facebook Group will be shared on the Global TZM Facebook Page.
The forum will be a community effort. At least, that's how I want it to be. This will be by no means a "Kees forum". If we as a community already arrived at a code of conduct and experience has proven that it meets its goal. Then I have no intention in reinventing that.
The forum will be a community effort. At least, that's how I want it to be. This will be by no means a "Kees forum". If we as a community already arrived at a code of conduct and experience has proven that it meets its goal. Then I have no intention in reinventing that.
In my co-initiative proposal I mention the courses to get everyone on board with the same set of methods. This could start off with something simple. People watch this lecture of Jacque Fresco in their own free time. When people watch this lecture, they write down the 5 most interesting quotes they hear. We then discuss these in a long session in a group of max 8 people.
I'm all for simple solutions. Reddit is also a possibility. But we would be competing for attention with the meme subreddits and alike. When we have our own platform, we have all the attention and we're not dependent on some social-media algorithm that decides what to show to the users and what not. Also, the topic/thread structure of Discourse provides a better overview. Reddit is limited to post flairs and the search functionality, which only takes us there to a certain degree. In the end I'm fine with any platform that solves the problem I defined in my proposal. At the moment I see a Discord/Discourse combination as the most satisfying solution.
The forum is meant to be open for all,<> only the pilot is at the moment invite based since we're just experimenting at this point. Once we really go live, it will be possible to sandbox new users based on their trust level. Trust levels increase automatically based on their activities such as reading the code of conduct (not just agreeing), searching for old topics, reading topics, etc. More information here. This gradually opens up the forum to new users. This limits spam and slowly opens up the forum to users that don't understand the working methods on the forum yet. These trust levels can be fully customized, or disabled, if it proved unhelpful.