[Network-Centric Resources] introduction

[Kristin Antin]

Welcome, Lisa! It's great to have you here. I can't believe it has taken this long to be on the same listserv! :)

Kristin

On 7/21/17 1:19 PM, Lisa Jervis wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
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