Hey Yosem, While I mostly work day-to-day in the clean energy & cleantech space, I as well have been involved in running a successful politically active list for the last 9 years and have been an advisor to some groups in the space: SumOfUs.org (tarensk's group), DemandProgress (aaronsw's group), even once upon a time to TechChange.org (Hi, Nick!).
Personally, I think there are strong advantages to being a 501c3. Funding is solvable, particularly with a bit of digital fundraising acumen. A good and active board is essential. For committees and activity, a Mattermost implementation might be a good option: https://about.mattermost.com/ Anyways, I don't need any more projects - but I would be willing to donate a few hours to a organizing group that wants to take forward the list/organization - to help solve the movement infrastructure piece. Please let me know if I can be of service. -Richard --- Richard Graves t: 202-372-6756 t: @RichardGraves On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 2:50 PM, Yosem Companys <ycompa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > Now that Liberationtech is independent from Stanford, we should probably > also talk about what the community wants Liberationtech to become: > > - What is your vision for Liberationtech? Should it remain a mailing > list with a Twitter account on its own domain? Should it do that plus > something else? > - Also, anybody have any idea of what legal structure we should adopt > (e.g., non-profit or cooperative)? > - What kind of leadership structure should we have? How should we run > the organization (e.g., electing leaders)? > - What committees do we need to create for people to volunteer and run > (e.g., technology, moderation, Twitter, fundraising, marketing)? > - How should we raise money? We need to pay at least for server space. > - Should we answer these questions now, or let the community develop > organically? > > Consider this a public online brainstorming session, but please feel free > to write publicly or privately. > > Thanks, > Yosem > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations > of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/ > mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change > password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu. >
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