[Network-Centric Resources] introduction

[Lisa Jervis]

Hello resource developers!

I am very excited to be joining this nascent community and want to
introduce myself.

I am a consultant working with nonprofit organizations (mostly social
justice community organizers and movement builders) on questions most
broadly articulated as "What do you need from your information systems
and how can you met those needs sustainably and in line with your
capacity and budget?"

My partner and I (who has also joined the list and will be introducing
himself shortly) take an approach heavily influenced by permaculture and
user-centered design, which leads to a focus on humans and practices
first, tools last.

Topic-wise, this means a lot of projects around file management CRM
systems, project management, remote work/distributed teams, digital
security, and IT and information systems planning, management and staffing.

In general we harvest as many resources we can from our client work,
generalize/templatize them, and share them out (stuff like guidelines
for organizing your shared file repository and sample project management
practices).

We are also working on a number of other more extensive resources,
primarily:

* A set of checklists for digital security improvement, which can be
found at https://ecl.gy/sec-check
* A needs assessment and tool evaluation toolkit, the bare bones of
which is at https://ecl.gy/needstoolkit (I'm working on writing this up
more extensively and in a markdown-based format like the security
checklists for easier sharing, feedback, forking, etc)

I think our biggest challenge right now is editorial commenting in
markdown--there is no standard AFAICT and no tool that makes for a
harmonious word-processing-like workflow. The workflows and practices
for code collaboration are not really right here.

Of course there's a ton of other stuff but I will leave it there for
now. Looking forward to being in community with you all.

-LJ

-- 
Lisa Jervis
Principal
Information Ecology: Strategic technology for progressive organizations
https://iecology.org/

My pronouns are she/her.

Want to send me encrypted email? My public key is available at https://ecl.gy/lj-gpg. 


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