Re: [TheThinkTank] Creating a think tank

23 Jul 2018

      Tigre,
I think Fabian makes good points.
The ThinkTank is just a mailing list. You can do a search on "setting up 
a mailing list" and receive a great many results. Typically you'll have 
a choice of the list being hosted by someone else (basically what Google 
Groups is a fancy version of) or hosting the list yourself (which means 
you must dedicate a computer of yours to be online and running 24/7. The 
latter is more independent, but also means that security is your 
responsibility as well. In other words, if someone attacks your server, 
you have to defend and repair. An advantage of using a service offered 
by another entity is that they have security protocols in place and 
teams assigned to handle threats. I could imagine people trying to 
attack a feminist server, so be careful with security.
Another option for collaboration is something like a collaboration 
software product, like Slack or Asana. There are open source options for 
this as well, Riot being one of them. These are apps users can run that, 
like mailing lists, use a server that either you run or you sign up to 
use from some other entity. You could more or less accurately think of 
collaborative software as just a really fancy email app with extra 
features.
If you want persistent information on the internet as a webpage, you are 
probably looking for a wiki, which is separate from the above two 
things. It is similar in that you can choose whether to host it on your 
own computer, which again, you need to keep up and running 24/7 and 
handle security for, or signing up to host it with some online provider.
In any of  the three above cases, even if you use an online provider to 
host things, you will need someone to be an administrator, the person 
who chooses settings for the software, decides when users should be 
banned or silenced, tweaks the appearance of the interface, and 
interacts with the hosting solution you've chosen, whether it be you 
yourself or an online provider.
I know this is a lot of stuff, but none of it is really that big a deal 
once you start it up. I'd encourage you to dive in and make mistakes 
rather than backing off and forgetting about it.
Cyclista Nicholas
On 2018-07-23 16:28, Fabian W. wrote:
...
But using a massively hegemonic, culturally colonizing, vertically
integrating corporate power as the vehicle for communication of a
feminist group seems like a very problematic contradiction.
The culture of convenience has lead most of us to accept corporate
power as the facilitator of TOO MUCH. Autonomy and empowerment
requires questioning those mechanisms.
I’m sure there are many alternative, independent tools for what Rachel
wants, even if not as convenient.
Best to all.
_fabian
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Jim Sheehan
Executive Director
Ohio City Bicycle Co-op
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On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 11:42 AM, Michael Young
<michael@westtownbikes.org mailto:michael@westtownbikes.org > wrote:
Do you want the group to be public or private?  Who will administor it?
Mikey
West Town Bikes
Chicago
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018, 10:40 AM Tigre Bici <bici.uanl@gmail.com
mailto:bici.uanl@gmail.com > wrote:
Hello everyone!
We are interested on see how the thinktank works and how to replicate
it, does anyone knows?
we are trying to setup something like the bike collectives think tank
with the city feminist groups but using facebook or whatssap has
proven very complicated
so, if you know any way on forming a thinktank or other ways of mass
communication with different groups that doesn't required to be all
day in front of a screen and/or saturates your inbox will be awesome.
Regards
R.

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