Hello Josh,
We had a similar issue on our last forum in our bicycle collective. There are many things we want to do but the labor is not enough. As we don't have a physical place, and don't have any issue board, we thought probably someone who came up, doesn't have any idea about what we do and what we plan to do. So, somehow, we need to put what we are doing to online.
Someone proposed using Trello [1] or a similar simple issue board. I'm not sure about Trello because it is mostly used by commercial projects and we try to be completely voluntary. However, we might use it a bit different. Someone might see a card and think they can do it and put their name on it. If they cannot do it, they can remove themselves or another person might notice that there is no action in a card can remove people on it to make it look available to the others.
These are just ideas in my head right now, didn't even discussed with the community. So, I would love to hear from everyone.
-- Ege - Don Quixote Bicycle Collective
On 11/18/2017 06:12 AM, Josh Bisker wrote:
Hello Pals!!!!!!!! Systems are shaping up at the Mechanical Gardens in NYC, and we're looking to develop more structure for drop-in volunteers. This includes irregular volunteers and regulars too. *What are some of the ways **you'd recommend **to do this well?* And what resources can you share?
PDFs of handouts from your shops or snapshots of things like task boards would be super helpful, as would other advice!
We want a balance of "low barrier for entry" tasks and "guidance or skill required" tasks.
We would love to hear your insights on how to frame these things to be learning and empowerment experiences instead of just "hey do this thing bye" or "hey do this thing while I hover over you."
ALSO ALSO PLEASE LOOKIE: We're posing this as a question to everyone, /but/ would primarily love to hear from some women/trans/femme/gender non-conforming organizers, if anyone who identifies that way is inclined to jump into the thread. Partly this is because the ThinkTank is often very male-dominated, and partly it's because in our shop, at least, cismen are way more likely to jump into / blunder through participating without structures to invite them in or help them contribute in the best way possible. For this reason, insights from non-cismen organizers would be great here.
xox to all of course though :)
Josh
Josh Bisker 914-500-9890 New York Mechanical Gardens Bike Co-op http://bikecoop.nyc/ 596 Acres http://596acres.org/ Bindlestiff Family Cirkus http://bindlestiff.org/
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