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Air Collective
Monday, March 17, 2025
12:50 PM
Attendees
• Anand
• Mike
• Mark
• Jessie
Agenda
• Updates
○ security protocols update
§ Bot attacks, using a free version of wordfence, moved to deflect, but deflect only uses with the subdomain, but that creates other problems, does not seem to be an effective solution
§ Could go to the paid version of wordfence
§ Wordfence used by JHU IT
§ Cloudflare Turnstile for Bot defense
○ Doesn’t work with the app
○ Can implement cloudflare without cloudflare turnstile
○ Can’t use JHU cloudflare
○ Action item – explore cloudflare, scope out a particular package – Mark
○ Action item – buy paid version of wordfence – Anand
○ user data updates
○ technical updates
§ WordPress upgrades
□ Mark upgraded everything including buddyboss
□ Move to manual rather than automatic
□ Mark updates every other month or when there is a new security, moving to every month
□ Action item – Mark and Mike
® Share the proton email login information
® accounts@ecodesingcollective.com with folder
□ Action item – Mark to disable all the auto updates
• BuddyBoss: Log on against Google and Apple ID
○ social media logins
○ Action item – Mark follow up with Anand about the specifics of which account
• Figure out process and procedures for EDC gallery space
○ Anyone with a visual portfolio, get a schedule in place to amplify people’s work
○ Application form, people should submit, air committee decides who to feature
○ How long they should run –
○ Enfranchise to invite
○ Air curator as deciders
§ Image as well as other forms
§ Adjudicating between a couple bring it to the air collective
• Upcoming virtual events
○ Re-imaging land virtual events
• Go over litter magazine (shared proposal)
○ Under read the journal have the different category headings
○ Litter submission
§ Which category for submissions
§ Read more for the litter description
○ Action item – How difficult to get a DOI? – Mark
§ DOI incentives people to write
○ Questions on the mobile
• Go over additional changes to the platform
• Group activation strategy (micro-grants?)
• Reports backs on events
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Air Collective Meettng January 24, 2025
Attendees
- Em
- Mark
- Anand
- Jessie
- Mike
Agenda
- Sign in with other accounts with buddy boss as part of new page launch – Jessie
- We are non-meta platform – Jessie
- Send Em the link to reactionary politics
- more posts each week
- group management –
- Protocols for starting a group and for keeping it going
- A grant to support moderators, someone who has the time, inclination
- Taking moderating seriously as work
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- Grant writing around alternative spaces
- Do a mod post, check-in in is this group still active? If we do not have a response in 2 weeks
- review new homepage
- Changes
- Make sure the side menu matches the language of the home page
- Default open for the side bar
- What other changes would we want for the platform?
- $10,000 for each of the groups, how do we want to spend it?
- Rahul quote
- Changes
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July 3, 2024
EDC Homepage Design
Results for the prototype homepage sent to us by Elvis:
https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/welcome/
Feedback for Elvis
- Add Stories
- We should consider a more effective way of differentiating groups, perhaps through color-coding (or some other method) instead of just the EDC curators’ bold arrow as it is now.
- trending posts can be below that
- Remove stats
- Think about something other than discussion posts for the landing page
- Tags function is good as filters for navigation and organizing – conv is networked
- The heading of security assurance might not be adequate because we don’t have robust encryption and warrant canaries
- Maybe add links to newsletters (+checkout latest newsletter, which would also have the latest events)
- Twitter feed
- Signing up should be displayed prominently
- Survey
Resend to increase participation in the survey (all ten people who submitted we know)
Newsletter can also be a space for people to sign up
What are we giving you to make you sign up? Political and scholarly discussions are on Twitter, the news is in the news, and social may be Facebook
Maybe EDC’s addition is more relevant to professional space and networking and so we can capitalize on resource banks
Next meeting; work on alternatives to social media and why we follow them
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April 3, 2024
Zooming in on the magazine
– Do we have right interface visible to writers when we solicit
– Runway; should we be ready to launch; make sure we don’t promise more than we can deliver timing of elements line up
– Mark brought in someone who does front-end design; has given her admin access; have someone in place;
- – This is question for mark
– M: How much runway for contributors? // Editorial// Minimally– end of May for submissions?
-A: 2-4 pieces every few months; 1 or 2 every three months for example? If you give people a month to write
-Word limits could be another way of managing the amount of work–
- – 1500 words ish?
– 1-2k; SCA fieldsites posts are generally 1-2k
- -issues that come out together, or release one a week;
-J: Are we all really interested in this?
-M Shortform things to sort of reward/ bring grad students in. Not a journal; there’s a lot of stuff out there already; if it’s easy to do on our end, easy to process, people see things and want to write something– that makes sense; would keep us on our feet and we’d be more flexible. But a more consistent roll out, might be more difficult.
- -Invitations to contribute on a seasonal basis and roll them out as they come
– Should there be a theme? If we are solliciting for the spring should there be a theme, or just an open call.
– Document for themes?
- -Alaa—groups can also be solicited/ highlighted/ formed after the groups
- -Munira- ecologies of militarism possibility
– More discussion on range of word limit; maybe 750-1250 (alaa); 1-1500
– ecologies of militarism
– Sapiens has a nice pitch form
- (WP forms; on the back end; could set it up there)
– Anand: Respecting the community and saying we expect to have people in EDC who can speak to this
-J: Project forum sprint; don’t want to overestimate what an open call will bring; want to give an idea of what it looks like before we “open”
-M: Editorial pull, how much do we want to expect from ourselves re: curating something
-A: I think actual editing with feedback is important, esp for developing scholars.
– M: recoginition that there is going to be some labor involved in that; probably lots of folks that would want to publish to this stuff
-An: A lot of ac-adjacent members who would want to write things
- – Masimo Paolini; not an academic but is interested in conversations
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March 13, 2024
Attendees: Mike, Anand, Jonas, Alaa
Agenda:
General Updates:
- Anand and Alaa meeting Center for Planetary Health Center today to start collaboration
Website development:
Communities on platform (development of groups):
- No introduction when you open platform, and so we need it because it only opens as a feed – How do we improve experience and engagement?
Splash page?
How can we structure people’s experience of web platform that conveys what we are doing– includes community space but isn’t exhausted by it
opening for regular useers makes sense for timeline/ don’t want a splash feed when I am already aware of what EDC does
opening for new users may open to something else: ‘pick 5 interests’ to create a customized experienced –> maybe autopopulate on feed about the new member that joined
deeper difference between log out page and regular
Different login sections? First field of vision may be join us with a moving graphic, so landing page is encouraging to login/ join
Develop:
1. Welcome to EDC, sign up, check our recent projects
2. customized user experience
3. better timeline look
4. page about projects we are involved in/ blurbs/ their own pages?
projects could be also individual edc curators projects (jones falls (Carissa and Lee), aqua (Nicole))
must be intuitive and just connect with members and themes
won’t be paralyzed by what ‘counts’ when we feature
perhaps develop a protocol — so what counts? more than once person involved? happening through community?
climate imaginarium
what spaces host projects that is not a group? shall we have it as a tag? must be worked into architecture of groups that already exists
in an ideal world, these groups can be funded by EDC
but perhaps also just a sense of affiliation
eg. carbon leadership forum –> have just loose affiliates without necessarily being sponsored but just allies
a page featuring diff projects just losely affiliated bec there aren’t enough (climate imaginarium, green falls, ecoarts, ecoanthros are only accessible ones)
diff bw a group with shared interests talking vs groups who talk to each other
we have 3 things:
– people coming together to talk about shared interest
– loose affiliations
both 1 & 2 are EDC as only as social media (fine but it would be how we envision EDC)
– funded groups with their own project is EDC as something beyond convening
Question for later to consider
All groups are projects but not all projects are groups
Funds (deferred):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1boCRlafbzcsGUY1KDocf3kaKwp5OwLYfMRzBX992p4M/edit?pli=1#gid=0
Emojis:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_ScsJgIo94DFFP0UnKnpFqoPxsrPzPWg-HXv0F3sIak/edit
Other options can be found on dashboard, under settings
Emotions:
Happy
Sad
Shocked
Angry
Grateful
emotions will have titles so we it is okay for them to be arbitrary
Add like (generic leaf — matching brand)
maybe switch happy with joy?
care and laughing are difficult to convey without relying on the face
getting rid of grsteful? no keep it and just add like
call grateful ‘thanks’
Let’s launch and roll out
IT (JHU): Anand has reached out and it is in process but Mark is on vacation
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January 16, 2024
List of agenda items:
Tech:
- Frustrations with big blue button? Zoom?
- Training for backend
- possibly w/ cloud68
Content
- Publication arm: Revamp stories etc
- Posting frequency etc, participation from curators?
- Group moderation: https://pad.riseup.net/p/edcgrouprecon-keep
- Group related updates
CONTENT:
M: Needs content, will gain traction with regular updates.
- Ongoing tasks: Post regularly
- EVENTS CALENDAR:
- Red emma’s events
- Other outlets to follow?
- A: Research: forms to survey everyone? Newsletter post on engagement
Al: Comissioning posts/ Publication of stories
- 1 paid post a month, 10 over the year (maybe not every post paid)
- Theme for the year? Designed for Doom
- LAUNCH SLATE:
- 3-5 articles ready to go by a launch date
- FORM FOR PITCHING STORIES:
- Different tiers for payment, etc.
- Submission numbers: how to advertise?
- Newsletter/ campus/ anth magazines
- Call for pitches
- Before call for pitches, have a proof of concept where specific people are targeted to write
- Share a story (change to write for us) instead of linking to a post, its a page that explains what we are looking for
- “Submit to the Editorial Collective”
- Doesn’t foreclose
ACTIONS FOR LAUNCH:
- (Jonas) follow up/ docs/ execution
- (Jonas) Rebrand of the name: DECOMPOSITIONS:
- (alaa) options for logos etc
- (Mike) Landing page for “Write for us”/ Who are the administrators/ editors/ committee
- (ANAND) Clean up and re organize layout; “Magazine space”
- Reformat legacy posts
- Whatever new structure has room for administrative/ housekeeping stories
- (Jonas) BEGIN CURATING Slate for the launch “issue”/ stories order within EDC website layout
- SPECULATIVE DATE: END OF MARCH
General (air group) Action Points:
- Write once a week and LINK TO TWITTER
Non-immediate strategizing:
- Thinking through how submissions look like in relation to us developing discourse on what ecological design is, what it isn’t and what it could be
- (Anand) Eventually, in the long run, the magazine may be a seperate platform, not necessary within EDC community platform itself, but a seperate web space of its own and linking it. Anand will check feasibiity and technical options
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May 8, 2024
Recommended features for the non-member homepage of EDC
o Welcome Message:
– The homepage often includes a simple and inviting message such as “See what’s happening in the world right now” or “Join the conversation.”
o Engaging Visuals:
– The homepage features visually appealing ecologicalimages and video content from various users and accounts to entice members.
o Featured Content:
– The homepage showcases trending topics and popular posts from different members and groups, allowing visitors to explore a wide range of content across various sub-interest groups.
o Exploratory Features:
– The homepage includes different categories of group themes such as eco-arts, eco-film, Imaginarium, planetary health, eco-anthropology… etc., to make it easy for members to realize which groups they can join and increase their participation.
o Preview of User Profiles:
– The homepage displays snippets of member profiles with profile pictures, interests related to ecology, what they do and what brought them to the platform to give potential members a glimpse of the community and network of EDC that they can be a part of.
o Call-to-Action:
– “Sign Up” or “Create an Account” emphasizing the benefits of joining EDC.
o Open Source, Privacy and Security Assurance:
– Commitment to privacy and security, highlighting open source benefits and reflecting on its relationship to EDC’s vision of bringing committed people together in one space that takes these values seriously even through its own design.
o Footer with Additional Information:
– The homepage includes a footer with links to essential pages such as About, Privacy, Terms, and Help, which provides people with access to more information about EDC policies and perhaps information about registration as a nonprofit. The footer can also reflect on this moment as part of EDC’s own trajectory.
Proposition: close EDC for users only and have only the homepage per the above. People can only access the platform if they join, so they are enticed to join. The platform as is doesn’t need people to join it to see what is happening; hence, the motivation is lower.
Jonas:
Seems acceptable
Mike:
Maybe we can experiment but i can see it could be discouraging?
But what about get the magazine rolling and on the ground first and see from there?
I a lot of times make my posts visible to members only bec of half baked thoughts so you will need consent of participants
Anand:
I will share this doc with Elvis and work on that end and see. I will also keep seeing what the Zoom function kinks are. The other thing I am working on on the tech side, using deflect on page (a lot of human rights NGO use it) for a privacy centric security service that is open source
Next Steps:
– Call
– Rather than open call, have a list for invitation (before next mtg– each 5 people on chat)
– Mike will take up invitation letter
– When do we send the invitation out? early next week so we have enough time to catch people before summer and going out of office and we plan to have it out
– Timeline: we get invite out may 15, they send by June 15– too early
– Jonas: isn’t available till end of August
Mike: fine to wait
Jonas: I would like to contribute so nice to wait
Mike: we could wait, and give us sometime
Jonas: works for me absolutely
Anand: can Jonas do the homepage features and landing website design mockup?
Jonas: can do that, and will also look at ref for other websites
Anand: to mike, can we imagine it coming out of cambridge and jhu? are there pepople in your universe who would be interested? resources to support?
Mike: what kind of support? because i am new here also so network is still forming
Anand: like a grad student for editorial team for instance.
We need to be able to provide stipends for grad students and some little support at least
Mike: how much are we thinking? 10K?
Anand: 10K would imply a lot of hours
Jonas: let’s start on cambridge front re commissioning front.. mike, do you have students who would be interested? rather than start by asking for financial support
I worry that logsitically it would be more difficult to have another editor in cambridge next to two coordinators here
Mike: we can think of student contributing first piece and ill strategize more. Knowing public anthro, there are ways to frame it correctly
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August 7, 2024
Action items
- Noah
- Create book list for newsletter
- Mark
- Shared Zotero bibliography plugin
- DOI for atmospheres?
- Jessie
- Write CFP
- Mike
- Share decompositions CFP
- Everyone
- Share CFP after approval with networks
Summary
- Questions
- How can we grow the community?
- What are the members or potential new members looking for?
- What to do with this cool platform we have?
- Choose to tradeoff visibility for better engagement?
- Particulars of the Air collective
- Smaller than the land collective
- Needs more folks
- Purpose = how to better active community presence online
- Used to be an extension of an academic space – lectures, etc.
- Turned to a more social media platform
- Mixed bag, a bit touch and go with engagement
- Turned to a more social media platform
- Want it to be more than Baltimore
- People very rarely are actually engaged
- What does engagement look like?
- Posting – comments, stories, events
- Reacting
- What does engagement look like?
- Smaller than the land collective
- Updates
- Redesign of the home page – Landing on the website will look different
- Areas of focus
- More events
- Advertise local events provides most traffic
- Social media built around events?
- Posting more local events
- Hosting events through the EDC
- Advertise local events provides most traffic
- More sustained engagement
- Online courses
- Take stories – short form blog posts and developed into Atmospheres series
- Short and specific blogs – just in time production
- People already part of the EDC
- Asking the same questions to multiple people
- More events
- Noah
