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1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Friday, 15-Jun-2018 05:30:59 EDT Strypey

   I spent a few years doing (mostly) voluntary community management of #PermacultureInNZ (#PiNZ) website development. I had to drop out a couple of years ago, due to some serious mental health challenges affecting me at the time, but now I'm reflecting on the project with greater objectivity, and the benefit of hindsight.
   https://www.coactivate.org/projects/permaculture/permaculture-in-nz

   1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Friday, 15-Jun-2018 05:35:38 EDT Strypey

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      When I started this work, as a member of the PiNZ Council, what I envisioned was ambitious, a complete set of online collaboration tools using only free code software, with a #UX design that makes the tools accessible even to an elderly permie just learning to use computers for the first time. It occurs to me now that achieving this is beyond the capacity of a one relatively small, volunteer-run, national body.

      1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Friday, 15-Jun-2018 05:41:35 EDT Strypey

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         The more ambitious features I envisioned for PiNZ aren't specific to people doing permaculture, but are shared by any community organization whose members inhabit a geographical area too large for regular #F2F meetings to be practical. Particularly those operating at a country-scale, or internationally. These features need to be developed as part of an out-of-the-box installation of a global project, like #Drutopia.