DRAFT
taotech
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mission statement
Tending spaces where life happens so solidarity can emerge.
goals
- community owned infrastructure
- online alternatives to corporate social media
- physical spaces for communities to meet, organize, and interact
- education and skillsharing for organizers
- tech literacy
- leadership skills for all
- participate in building a federated, autonomous future
- committing our own organizational blueprints as copyleft "code" to distributed version control
- hosting federated spaces
services
Taotech already provides services, Taotech is being created partially to organize several projects under one roof.
online
Taotech will be the host organization for several online resources and projects.
fediverse
Taotech tends to spaces on the Fediverse!
- social messaging fediverse site for activists, with a focus on Palestinian liberation: https://freefree.ps/ running Mastodon
- event posting site for the general public: https://emerging.now/ running Mobilizon
fediverse future
The idea is not simply to provide services for activists, but to build community spaces for everyone.
We need to provide alternatives to the alt-right pipeline. This means spaces that appeal to interests beyond the political, but that are part of an ecosystem tended to by decent people.
Some ideas for future Fediverse servers:
- music/podcasts/audio sharing community platform TODO://sounds.emerging.now
- image sharing server "for the barely social", currently paused pending fixes to PostgreSQL support: seldom.social
- An instance of PeerTube
organizing resources
Taotech also tends to other online spaces:
- groupware hosting for anti-fascist organizers: https://www.loaf.group/ using Nextcloud
- git forge at https://source.taote.ch/ using Forgejo which also serves as the history link on this wiki!
- random wikis like Ⓐ.🎉 https://anarchist.party/ using ikiwiki etc.
material
Our community in London, Ontario desparately needs more physical spaces that can be used by grassroots organizers for meetings and other activities.
We need something like EVAC again, or maybe a space like an old church?
workshops
- tech literacy
- computer basics
- web and internet skills
- Git
- community organizing skills
- consensus decision making
- radical inclusion
- leadership and transparent structures
- managing burnout and recovery
- burnout is real, we should organize like we're aware of it
incorporation
The plan is for Taotech to incorporate as a not-for-profit organization in Ontario, Turtle Island.
Incorporation will enable Taotech to rent (or purchase? lol…) physical community spaces as well as providing structure for the organization to persist. Incorporating as a not-for-profit organization in Ontario requires three people to form a board of directors.
organizational code
As we develop Taotech into an actual organization we will be documenting everything here on this wiki, which is also a repository in the distributed version control system known as Git.
We hope that this will enable others to easily replicate our work to adapt for their own purposes, with some of those adaptations making their way back upstream.
start-left culture
Not a start-up trying to raise a fortune, but a start-left trying to raise all fortunes.
honouring tao.ca and London Commons
tao communications, later OAT, has been on life support for a long time.
LondonCommons.net (later LondonCommons.ca) was a local online media grassroots organization in London, Ontario between 2005 and 2012:
What if we brought them back, or a spiritual successor? That's what Taotech aspires to be.
contact
Email: calebwill at taote.ch
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