Occupy Seattle

Looks like NY is starting to deal with a similar situation, in which the online representation for workgroups has become cluttered and or inaccurate. See http://www.nycga.net/2011/11/30/plans-t ... re-groups/ as well as http://notes.occupy.net/p/NYCGA.net_Groups_Policy which is the actual proposal they are making.

I believe that is of the utmost importance that we maintain cleanliness and an outwards appearance of organization and activity within the forums, in order to continue its usefulness and growth. To facilitate this, I am proposing that we move inactive forums to some sort of archive section, so that we can focus what activity does exist, and clear out old and legacy information. Perhaps new posts in archived forums could be displayed at some some centralized location as to not discourage their usage.

There are workgroups that have little to no activity, or ones that actually do not exist anymore, "The Steering WG no longer exists; see http://occupyseattle.org/site-page/proposal-checklist for information on submitting proposals," and having inactive forums is very discouraging to people who want to interact with those groups. If we wish to maintain this community, I strongly suggest that we build a system for maintaining accurate and up to date moderation and management of a workgroup's online presence, making sure that the workgroup is committed to the communication channel that we are providing to them.

Thanks for your time and efforts!

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Brian Firfer - Mod/Admin
Member ICT
Contact me at occupy (at) firfer (.) com

I know there are other mods here... does no one have an opinion on this?
If not I guess I can just delete it and email it out to the OSICT list?

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Brian Firfer - Mod/Admin
Member ICT
Contact me at occupy (at) firfer (.) com

Just woke up. I think it's a good idea, who wants to do this?
B-firf?

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Phil Andrews-Site Admin
Member ICT
Contact me at admin@scitechteam.com

It would require someone with open communication channels to the workgroups...

I am happy to be a point of contact for collecting and organizing the information, though at some point we should just automate the process. An important thing to note, it is the responsibility of the people running the workgroup to provide up to date information. Each workgroup within our forum should be facilitating a two way conversation with the workgroup, allowing organizers to present action items for readers to participate in (Meetings, Rallies, Direct Action), as well as allowing for workgroup feedback, provided by anyone and everyone.

Currently our workgroup's consist of a black box of email addresses, but what we need is for each workgroup to elect and maintain one or more a forum ambassadors, allowing them to represent the workgroup to the online community and provide the necessary information to allow others to participate.

Such a thing is a group effort

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Brian Firfer - Mod/Admin
Member ICT
Contact me at occupy (at) firfer (.) com

My experience in running boards has taught me, nothing, and I mean nothing will make a board active again like deleting a dead board. Oh the wails of WHERE DID IT GO can be deafening!