{"id":33,"date":"2012-05-09T01:57:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T05:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intothenetworks.femmetech.org\/?p=33"},"modified":"2012-05-10T12:14:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T16:14:46","slug":"collaborative-technology-reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intothenetworks.femmetech.org\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Collaborative Technology Reasoning: Beg, Borrow, Buy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why collaborate with a specific technology?<\/strong> Why not just get our work done some other way and all hand it in? For starts, in a collective–or any horizontal project–there’s no manager to hand it in to, no boss, no one to organize the work for you but you. Getting organized is a systems-level problem that best be addressed as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

And for projects that have principles that base around justice, equality, accessibility, and collective or direct-democratic decision making, the choice of platforms is a political decision.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For the 2012 Femme Conference, we needed to set up a system where 14 core organizers and 30 subcommittee members can work together — both in terms of accessibility and capacity. Systems we chose thus had to be not overly hard to learn or use, but still must allow for organization and effectiveness.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We looked at possibly using:<\/p>\n