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# DRAFT
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## taotech
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[[!img Taotech.svg size="250x250" alt="Taotech logo is a red a black yin and yang symbol on its side" caption="Sourcing course being nonbeing coursing source."]]
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[[!toc levels=4]]
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## mission statement
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Tending spaces where life happens so solidarity can emerge.
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### goals
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- community owned infrastructure
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- online alternatives to corporate social media
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- physical spaces for communities to meet, organize, and interact
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- education and skillsharing for organizers
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- tech literacy
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- leadership skills for all
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- participate in building a federated, autonomous future
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- committing our own organizational blueprints as copyleft "code" to distributed version control
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- hosting [federated spaces](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse)
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## services
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Taotech already provides services, Taotech is being created partially to organize several projects under one roof.
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### online
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Taotech will be the host organization for several online resources and projects.
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#### fediverse
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Taotech tends to spaces on the [Fediverse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse)!
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- social messaging fediverse site for activists, with a focus on Palestinian liberation: <https://freefree.ps/> running [Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org/)
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- event posting site for the general public: <https://emerging.now/> running [Mobilizon](https://mobilizon.org/)
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##### fediverse future
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The idea is not simply to provide services for activists, but to build community spaces for everyone.
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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.
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Some ideas for future Fediverse servers:
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- music/podcasts/audio sharing community platform TODO://sounds.emerging.now
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- image sharing server "for the barely social", currently paused pending fixes to PostgreSQL support: [seldom.social](https://seldom.social)
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- An instance of [PeerTube](https://joinpeertube.org/)
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#### organizing resources
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Taotech also tends to other online spaces:
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- groupware hosting for anti-fascist organizers: <https://www.loaf.group/> using Nextcloud
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- git forge at <https://source.taote.ch/> using [Forgejo](https://forgejo.org/) which also serves as the history link on this wiki!
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- random wikis like Ⓐ.🎉 <https://anarchist.party/> using [[ikiwiki]] etc.
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### material
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Our community in London, Ontario desparately needs more physical spaces that can be used by grassroots organizers for meetings and other activities.
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We need something like [EVAC](https://web.archive.org/web/20140915171346/http://eastvillagearts.ca/archives.htm) again, or maybe a space like an old church?
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#### workshops
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- tech literacy
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- computer basics
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- web and internet skills
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- Git
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- community organizing skills
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- consensus decision making
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- radical inclusion
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- leadership and transparent structures
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- managing burnout and recovery
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- burnout is real, we should organize like we're aware of it
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## incorporation
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The plan is for Taotech to incorporate as a not-for-profit organization in Ontario, Turtle Island.
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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.
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### organizational code
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As we develop Taotech into an actual organization we will be documenting everything here on this wiki, which is also a [repository](https://source.taote.ch/taotech/taotech) in the [distributed version control system](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_version_control) known as [Git](https://git-scm.com/).
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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.
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## start-left culture
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Not a start-up trying to raise a fortune, but a start-left trying to raise all fortunes.
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## honouring tao.ca
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[tao communications](https://web.archive.org/web/20020914035232/http://www.tao.ca), later [OAT](https://web.archive.org/web/20030609030720/http://oat.tao.ca/oat/), has been on life support for a [long time](http://tao.ca/).
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What if we brought back tao communications, or a spiritual successor? That's what Taotech aspires to be.
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----
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All wikis are supposed to have a [[SandBox]], so this one does too. This wiki is powered by [[ikiwiki]].
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