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Spawning community platforms #14

Open gvdr opened 4 years ago

gvdr commented 4 years ago

One of the thing I am trying to invest energy and create momentum now is the development of tools to support emerging digital communities. Read as in: the Muslim community in Christchurch would like to work on a digital project mapping the online racism attacks they witness. At the moment, we do have all the tools for platform supporting this effort (I'm thinking of github + jupyter + hugo for the website + ...) but the entry level to handle and interact with them is very high.

One ideal goal would be an R package (weRcommunity) that first guides through the creation of the relevant accounts and then (building from a yaml file?) spawns all the necessary tools.

stephstammel commented 4 years ago

That’s a brilliant idea! I wonder if the Rladies starter guide offers anything or if it would be a good combined project?

gvdr commented 4 years ago

I am not aware of this, but keen to look into it!

smwindecker commented 4 years ago

Love this! Lots of academic communities want to organise as well and the start up costs for a web presence/platform are also high.

jenrichmond commented 4 years ago

At Alison Hill's markdown workshop in Canberra earlier in the year, she had use a magic deploy to netlify button. She had created a template and from memory we just cloned the repo and then used the magic button. https://github.com/ysc2019-workshop/04-blogdown

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stefaniebutland commented 4 years ago

I've pinged my community manager peers at https://www.cscce.org/ to look here

vantuyls commented 4 years ago

I second the call to engage with your local R communities. That said, i suspect this type of framework would be widely used worldwide. I wonder if engaging with some of the code/data science for the public good folks out there would be helpful. I suspect that some of this infrastructure is already in play somewhere. Let me ping the csvconf folks to offer feedback.

vantuyls commented 4 years ago

oh, and as a follow on - if you (or someone) gets some infrastructure like this up and running, please share it far and wide - including at https://csvconf.com/ !

gvdr commented 4 years ago

I am aware this is probably not just code. Some of this maybe writing some "glue documentation" about how to coordinate existing tools. And some "critical use" training (what do you write on Facebook? what you should not write?).

There are some great infrastructure, but as somebody reminded me recently, building, maintaining, or have some ownership of our communication and collaboration infrastructure is key for social movements.