TechComms Meeting Notes 08/04/2025

Agenda

Two streams of work

1. bootstrapping new space in a low-friction way that allow us to interface with each other and the outside world and continue to survive

2. transitioning culture and practices for the future

   • doing working group outreach to understands:
     • what is currently working for individuals / groups
     • what wants and needs exist
     • how disruptive and in what way potential changes would be
   • external outreach and research into alternative tools & infrastructure

Near-future needs:

• website
  • starting with a simpler static self-hosted site feels reasonable to me
• email & calendar
  • Vanessa set up a gmail account for email & calendar
• mailing list
• donor platform
• social media tech
• document store

Notes

• bookstack is totally public as it is. we had to redact contact info from the charters

• llama bought the .nyc domain

  • last meeting we talked about full domain for external facing and commons.nyc for experimental stating, link-shortening, and

• desire for semantic emails. info

• p cm: most pressing action items seem to me to be

  • static landing page (or just a linktree) and audience capture

    • mailing list

      • mvp could be just setting up subscribe@ridgewoodcommons.nyc

      • could be a simple as a mailto link on a linktree (but this could be confusing for less techy / younger people)

      • how many people are actually on the current mailing list?

        • there are many list and we don't know how many people are subbed and where they are or if they are paying any attention

        • we can use riseup for free, or pay electric embers- this would allow our org to create a bunch of WG- or task-specific email lists

        • micro: we need to disclose guarantees for any services we provide

        • LP willing to do due dilligence on mailing list providers

      • MVP is a mailtolink and/or contact form

    • social media

    • donors

    instagram annoucement: - dual post on IG between the WB and RC - next steps, set up business for IG-- gives us analytics api access which would let us use tooling like buffer, zapier etc - who even controls that account

    next action items:

    - lp: do due diligence on mailing list providers, write or collect blurbs for working groups
    
    - micro: set up landing page with links to
    
        - donation platform
    
        - email list signup
    
        - social links
    
        - blurb for public-facing working groups (question mark)
    
      - p cm: figure out current situation with domain, who owns the ig account, reach out to advisors on capturing social media, donors