Sorry for the short notice, but tonight's meetup should be a good one of NYC Tech4Good should be of interest to Drupalistsas and open source folks.
WHEN: TODAY, JUNE 18 at 7pm at the Oxfam International Offices.
RSVP: Click "Signup" link below
WHERE:
355 Lexington Avenue, between 40th and 41st street
3 floor, Conference Room
Women and Development Organisation's offices (WEDO)/Oxfam
Please bring a couple bucks to help with refreshments
WHAT:
Massive self-organizing volunteer communities are developing the best software in the world, but why aren't we seeing this same drive when it comes to online campaigns? While volunteers are giving millions of hours to Firefox, Drupal, Joomla and more, they aren't giving the same efforts to nonprofit endeavors. The most common reason: Nobody asked.
With a few notable exceptions, organizations are not tapping the the web to harness the power of volunteers. Organizations need to learn from the success of the OS model and change how they build campaigns. Campaigning needs to become more collaborative and transparent.
With our special guests we will discuss the lessons from Open Source software development that could be used to create powerful on and offline campaigns. We will include some specific examples and needs, so be ready to get your hands dirty, because this time YOU WILL BE ASKED.
WHO:
YOU
Guests:
Karina Brisby, E-campaigns Director for Oxfam: Karina will discuss their upcoming projects and how other organizations and volunteers can collaborate as well as ask for the groups input on a specific project.
Joshua Wiese, Online Director for EveryHumanHasRights.org, TheElders.org: Josh will talk about the EHH campaign to teach people about everyone's rights under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) as we approach the 60th anniversary of the document in December. EHH is using online and mobile tools to invite individuals to sign the UDHR.
Danny Moldovan, VP Strategy and Communications for Change.org: Change.org is a social network dedicated to empowering individuals to create the change they want to see in the world.
P.S. There will be Beer.
Comments
This sounds really
This sounds really interesting. For those of us on the other side of the world, it would to hear any feedback on this meeting.
Cheers
I'm no Director
Hey Jason,
Thanks SO much for putting this event together. It was wonderful to meet everyone, toast to tech for goodness, and throw ideas back and forth. We're in an interesting place in the world of 'social tech'. Our roles sculpting the online face of our respective organizations are too often under-resourced, under-recognized, and under-utilized; and (in a game with few rules) we've all got a lot to learn.
For the record, I'm not the Online Director at The Elders or the Every Human Has Rights campaign. Sorry to let any of you down, but we're a bit 'role free' over here, and I'm just a regular ol' member of the campaign team.
Best Regards.
Dang, l mised it :-(
Unfortunately I was out of town and just saw the post about June's meet-up. As the technical coordinator for a NPF based in NYC I know it would have been a good one.
I doubt it, but since you mention people not asking, I will ... Was any type of archive audio/video made of this meeting?