Tech Ops Meeting

March 7, 2012

Attendees

• Ben
• Joe
• Evan
• Matt
• Dana
• Patricia
• Eric
• James
• Darrell

Projects Project

• James fundraising for next issue
• Intake form on CiviCRM and display on front end of Civi
• Matt to take project list and integrate CiviContribute
• Tom setting up Catarse.me for testing
• Crowdrise can be used for fund-raising
• How to connect projects to people who can donate
• Create an integrated platform long-term with Permabank
• Use Catarse for national kickstarter
• Occupations can use CiviCRM to highlight their projects locally
• Have fees go to GA
• Schedule front-end meeting

Permabank

• Occupy Farms is ready to rock
• Have 10 new farms
• Transportation issues, they have needs
• Reputation management issue continues

Metro cards

• Patricia is new point person
• The point person has to go get the metro card for the week
• Max of 5 per week
• This week Patricia, Dana, Shawn & Josh Whalen got cards

streetnet

• Coming along, launching in two weeks
• Development site is on http://dev.occupywallstreet-net.gotpantheon.com/
• Going to be deployed on new server bd1

Livestreaming

• Went to Terradeck and got 4 more bond units
• LA Tech has a space available that 18k feet
• A lot of connections made with donors and hackerspaces are on board

Fundraising for projects

• WG can fundraise but can’t have access to GA funds
• But we can accept in kind donations
• In order to get projects done we need people who can focus on these projects invested in it
• Start live/work space with residency space
• There is a lot of fund-raising for projects that could support space
• Political issue emerge accepting large donations
• Occupy.com has had similar issues

• Evan is no longer working with occupy.com

NYCGA

• Request: List group contact emails one place to contact all WG about event
• Site Updates
• Update to homepage when logged listing my groups and my events right from homepage
• More visually engaging if not logged in
• Improve events detail page
• Kitchen wants to use Text loop to use for meal announcements
• Use Twitter or Celli to send out daily food updates
• Needs to be accessible from the phone
• Kitchen wants easy way to show where food will be every day
• Don’t know if ComHub is coming back
• Banner at the top of the page is usually used for time sensitive information
• Banner on side bar could be used for it too

Commons Meeting/Space Management

• Use Tech Ops shared calendar to reserve space for meetings/trainings

• Ben from Burlington wants to setup NYCGA for Burlington and help out on other projects (sysadmin, etc)