Welcome to the new Portland General Assembly website. It can be found at either pdxga.org or portlandgeneralassembly.org
Inspired by the relationship between occupywallst.org and nycga.net, this website was born from a need for better communication in our local movement. When Occupy Portland began, groups sprung up organically, seemingly out of nowhere. People joined together on many fronts – communications, action, social transformation, and support.
With this new site, we can clearly see what everyone’s been up to and how we can get involved!
Tell your friends about this site through email, Facebook, twitter, etc. We need your help spreading the word.
Occupyportland.org:
Occupyportland.org will remain as the Occupy Portland loudspeaker and portal. The web team will continue posting updates about Occupy Portland events and actions.
Portlandgeneralassembly.org:
Portlandgeneralassembly.org will now be the home of General Assembly and Spokescouncil notes, all committees, working groups, caucuses, affinity groups, and any other non-OP group who shares our mission of positive social change.
All groups can now post their own notes, links, and have conversations on the site instead confusing of multi-email threads on listserves.
We’re also moving our dependency on Facebook over to a different kind of social site that is based on our common goals.
Bulletin Board:
Announcements, agenda setting notes, GA notes, and Spokescouncil notes will be posted here. Only Website Administrators have access to the bulletin board. If you feel something should go up on the board, send and email to [email protected]
-If it’s an OP event, most likely, it’ll get posted to here as well as the main OP website.
Activity:
This page gives you the latest updates on who’s talking about what. There is community-sourced moderation so please take it upon yourself to flag inappropriate and abusive language.
Groups:
Groups on this site will be organized into the categories of communications, action, social transformation, and support. These categories do not distinguish between groups within Occupy Portland and outside of Occupy Portland. All groups are welcome to be here as long as they have a common purpose of bringing about or supporting positive social change in Portland.
Newcomers are welcome to read about the groups, join them, and begin interacting. The best way to bring about social change is to get involved and organize!
If you don’t see your group, start it!
As an admin, don’t forget to activate “docs” because otherwise, you can’t share documents with each other.
Events:
Everyone is welcome to create an event. This will be displayed on the events tab. Web team is currently working on syncing our google calendar with this event manager. Events do not need to be approved by G.A. This is a “communicate freely” space. The only events moderated will be spam and events unrelated to social change (ie: sale at wal-mart).
Create an event by going to your profile and clicking on the “events” tab of your profile (not the navigation bar at the top of the page). Then click on “my events”. You should see a button that says “add new”. Add a new event and put it in the appropriate category. If you’re an admin to a group, you can specify which group the event pertains to.
Assemblies:
Information about the General Assembly (GA), Spokescouncil (SC), Feather Circle can or soon will be found here as well as well as notes from agenda setting, the GA and SC.
Resources:
Educational Material will soon be found here. If you have additional suggestions, email them to [email protected]
Links:
Share your links with the community by adding links to the links page.
Mentions:
Just like twitter and Facebook, add an @ in front of your friend’s name to let them know you’re talking about them.
Docs:
Your group can post meeting notes and documents. Please fill it up with information!
Forum:
This will eliminate the long email threads in our listserves. Discussions can be done here, instead.
Questions? Comments? Concerns?
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