[pp.int.general] [pp-eu] Party IT systems.. - the back ends..

[Andy Halsall]

On Monday 28 May 2012 18:55:36 Rok Andrée wrote:
> Redmine for project manegment
> 
> osTicket for email support system
> 
> But i also have not found a sutible membership manegment tool so I'm
> writing our own. Biggest problem with civicrm is that it does not encrypt
> ANYTHING.

I'd love to take a look at what you are putting together if you have the time 
at some point.. with civicrm I note that you can do the encryption yourself 
(disk and comms), but it still doesn't seem to do what I want..
> 
> IRC and mumble and mailinglists (plural) for communication. Bridging most
> of this to irc would be easy.

Yeah, we tend to use mumble/VOIP and POTS for meetings and mailing lists for 
anything asynchronous, but it does still leave some people out.
> 
> etherpad for writing of any and all texts (has anyone else had problems
> with organisation of the pads? we have a total mess as there are way to
> many of them)

We are using that, probably the best bit of kit available for collaborative 
writing.

 
> Liquidizer/liquidfeedback for consensus building (anything preferred?)

I've looked at this, but for initial development it doesn't seem terribly well 
suited.
> 
> Helios voting for e-voting (any other systems)?
> 
> There's a PPI techteam that you can find on #intl-it @pirateirc (I'm Putr).

Now I know who to badger...
> 
> 
> Rok Andrée
> Sekretar  (Secretary)
> Piratska stranka Slovenije <http://piratskastranka.net>
> (Slovenian Pirate Party)
> 
> On 28 May 2012 19:21, Justus Römeth <roemeth at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Mailing Lists (plural) and Redmine certainly helped us, but in the end
> > party-wide communication is just very iffy or nearly impossible with a
> > certain size. There certainly is no 'one-size-fits-all' approach,
> > especially as soon as you start to attract 'offliners'. Having great
> > elected party officers with big teams of volunteers behind them certainly
> > helps keeping somehow track of things happening.
> > 
> > On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Andy Halsall <
> > 
> > a.halsall at pirateparty.org.uk> wrote:
> >> Hey ho,
> >> 
> >> Looking for some ideas on coordination and campaigns support from an IT
> >> perspective.  I've been evaluating Things like groupware packages,
> >> civicrm and
> >> other crm packages and a couple of project apps, but haven't found
> >> anything
> >> that ticks even most of the boxes yet.
> >> 
> >> I wondered what people were aware of that might make the following 
easier:
> >>        1a. Inbound Communications (tracking inbound communications to
> >> 
> >> teams and
> >> making sure that follow ups happen and can be handed between people).
> >> 
> >>        1b. Outbound Communications (the ability to drop out mailings to
> >> 
> >> groups
> >> based on some criteria - location, membership, interests etc..)
> >> 
> >>        2. Task management, the delegation of and acceptance of 'stuff
> >> 
> >> that needs
> >> to be done' within a team.
> >> 
> >>        3. Reporting on and tracking of the effectiveness of our actions,
> >> 
> >> whether
> >> that's a specific campaign or event.  This should also include things
> >> like donation and membership payments being linked to a 'thing' if
> >> there was a thing that caused the donation/membership.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> At the moment we are using calendars, forums and mailing list and a
> >> wiki, but
> >> as we get more people coming in for contact it's getting harder to use
> >> sensibly and delegation is not as simple as it could be.  Essentially we
> >> are
> >> making our lives harder than they need to be when it comes to
> >> organisation online.
> >> 
> >> We also have a mild issue in the way we are organised for elections,
> >> that is
> >> to say because it's all FPTP and very local much of the time, we have to
> >> be
> >> able make use of this to get pretty granular, down to areas that are
> >> essentially small town sized, especially for issues, whilst still being
> >> able
> >> to task national resources for support...
> >> 
> >> So, any ideas? What are others doing?
> >> 
> >> 
> >> --
> >> Andy Halsall
> >> Campaigns Officer
> >> Pirate Party UK
> >> +44 (0) 7505111705
> >> 
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-- 
Andy Halsall
Campaigns Officer
Pirate Party UK
+44 (0) 7505111705

For more information on the Pirate Party UK, please visit our website at 
http://www.pirateparty.org.uk.  If you wish to receive regular press 
statements from the Party (or no longer wish to receive them) please email the 
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