# Tech Admin Charter

<div class="ace-line" id="bkmrk-admin-committee-name"><span class="b">**Admin Committee Name: Tech** (née Tech &amp; Comms)</span></div><div class="ace-line" id="bkmrk-date-charter-ratifie"><span class="b">**Date Charter Ratified:**</span> 12/08/2025 ish</div><div class="ace-line" id="bkmrk-">  
</div><div class="ace-line" id="bkmrk-connection-statement"><span class="b">**Connection Statement:**</span></div><div class="ace-line" id="bkmrk-the-tech-%26-comms-adm">- The Tech Admin Committee exists to support infrastructure for all forms of communication: intra-group, inter-group, community-wide, and external. It aims to facilitate collaboration and mutual care at all these levels through face-to-face, physical, and technologically mediated infrastructure.
- The group adopts and recommends practices that balance the following:
    
    
    - Ridgewood Commons' values of invitationality, transparency, and accessibility
    - Operational considerations of privacy and security
    - Usability considerations around organizational coherence and efficiency

</div><div class="ace-line" id="bkmrk-powers-%26-rights%3A"><span class="b">**Powers &amp; Rights:**</span></div><div class="ace-line" id="bkmrk-manage-credentials-f">- Manage credentials for shared digital accounts
- Admin access to digital platforms
- Enable (but not perform) moderation on digital platforms
- Autonomously experiment with new practices before making proposals for broader adoption
- Utilize Ridgewood Commons when free and available for meetings

</div><div class="ace-line" id="bkmrk-responsibilities-%26-l"><span class="b">**Responsibilities &amp; Liability**</span></div>- Ensure usability and security of digital infrastructure, while clearly disclosing risks associated with the use of any service
- Learn individual Working Group cultures and practices to identify real group needs and disseminate organizational skills and knowledge between working groups
- Keep transparent meeting notes &amp; logs of ongoing asynchronous work
- Make proposals for Ridgewood Commons-wide recommendations

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