Communication needs a town square. Step 1 was to implement a forum independent from our site. Encrypted (of course) and endorsed, and with it’s own unique karma.
Talk to us. Tell us what we can do better. Group listen – a challenge to all of us is to listen as a group. To truly listen.
And the software needs direction. Our job is to listen to and foster the community of Tendenci users across the globe while respecting that ultimately we, they, you, them, us, are all independent individuals and organizations, cultures and people, nonprofits and companies, we speak different languages, the only thing in common with the global tendenci community is our diversity. Just as the only constant is change.
We wouldn’t be cause related software developers or working at cause related companies that aspire to the #openeverything OSCON type of ethos to begin with.
First – it is to serve.
To achieve our communication goals we are using some amazing open source software based on django and postgres just like tendenci of course – The Misago Open Source Discussion Forums is used to power the new https://community.tendenci.com site to provide a “place” for that dialog to take happen. Developers are welcome to continue posting issues on github of course, clients who prefer to have us (or you!) manage their tendenci hosting will submit billable tendenci support requests, but there is something different about a forum that is toned down and not quite as public. I can’t quite explain why.
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