Tech Admin Charter

Admin Committee Name: Tech (née Tech & Comms)
Date Charter Ratified: 12/08/2025 ish
Connection Statement:
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
Powers & Rights:
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
Responsibilities & Liability
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 & logs of ongoing asynchronous work
Make proposals for Ridgewood Commons-wide recommendations