Tech Tools for Activism
The second Hacktionlab tech tools project. These minutes from Hacklab Manchester 2011 contain some of the results of the discussion there.
ToDo list
- Decided on a new format/style guide (IRC meeting)
- Make a resources list
- Make a participants list
- write up workflow plan (Ben G)
- Organize IRC meeting (Ben G)
- Enhance the Style Guide
- Go through and check your own original contribtions - take out what you think isn't relelvant. Link out to more information and reduce the word count. (can we have a meeting about style and aims before we do this? Ben Green 20th Sep 2011)
Resource List
- Tech tools for activists - Version one of the booklet
- http://booki.flossmanuals.net/tech-tools-for-activists-2/_edit/ - editable live version of the document
- Booki User manual - http://en.flossmanuals.net/Booki-User-Guide/
Resources we can link out to
Booki Developer Interaction
IRC interaction is recommended and happens at:
server: freenode.net channel: #flossmanuals
Participants List
- Co-ordinator/slave driver (Ben G)
- Illustrator
- Penguin: spoken to an artist and a graphic designer - both up for doing some illustrations / designs / cartoons. Yay! Have suggested they hold off until we make more progress on the content.
- Design Consultant
First IRC Meeting Agenda
- Sorting out how links to web documentation. (MH)
- Review of current quality levels. (BG)
- Agree / restate what the target audience is for TTfA (penguin)
- Agree / restate what we are trying to convey (e.g. why to do something, how do do something) (penguin)
- Should each article have a common structure? If so, what? (penguin)
- Should there be more kittens in the booklet? (tabby)
- Develop task list to move forward & assign roles as far as possible (penguin)
Content Review
Please tag any comments and suggestions as your own.
We should remove the user journeys, this was pretty much agreed at the Manchester meet up. (BenG) We should replace them with popout info boxes. (BenG)
Secure Communication
An Introduction to this Booklet
Browsing the Internet anonymously
Hiding Stuff on your Computer
Organising Online
Securing your Email
How to get pages removed from Google Cache
Using Open and Decentralised Services
Free as in Freedom
Secure Updates using Status.net
Publishing your News
Blogging Anonymously
Creating our own Media
Uploading Media to the Internet
Green Computing
This is a a title section with no contents, why? (BenG)