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Make Progressive Coders Slack open to public, make ProgCode entity separate from the network. #137

Open rcscastillo opened 7 years ago

rcscastillo commented 7 years ago

Description

Start discussion about separating the slack from the ProgCode non-profit entity. The way we are facilitating the current slack in the context of our non-partisan structure is untenable and has to have a clear delineation of a "progressive coders network" as a common-noun, non-entity, slack room, with "The Progressive Coders Network / ProgCode" as a 501(c)(4) entity, with a non-partisan, remove-money-out-of-politics goal.

Function

General Strategies. All teams affected.

Benefit

Sustainability of community. The way we are regulating it right now may adversely affect the community we are trying to grow.

Plan

Consent to Continue with the plan

  1. Meet on Monday Evening to discuss plan (March 27)
  2. Get Project Leaders input (March 27 - April 3)
  3. Get community input on the community meeting (April 3 - April 7)
  4. Call for consent to implement
  5. Announce in State of the Network for the vote/s (April 13)
  6. Make official along with 501(c)(4) status
jpb5013 commented 7 years ago

Another element to consider, @jlegrone and I were discussing having a separate 501(c)3 organization for the tools, including Open Campaigns, Single Sign-on, Maps for Change, etc.

stephenscapelliti commented 7 years ago

A 501(c)(3) would not be permitted to interact with any political organization, if the purpose of the tools is use in partisan political activities or if the criteria used was based on partisan political data (e.g., registered to a political party, geographic data based on voting trends, etc.). Let's explore the mechanism and the goals.