[Air-L] Safe communications among media activist communities

[maxigas]

Martin Shelton <mshelton at uci.edu> writes:

> At The Coral Project <coralproject.net> we're building open source tools
> and practices to allow communities around news to communicate more
> easily. To that end, we're conducting research to learn about safe
> communications among media activist communities and civil society groups.
>
> If you can help or know someone who can, please check out the short
> survey here:
> https://oasis.sandstorm.io/shared/G3FdYnMhqoxpquvoQCsVHLPeBqx47pctUdDHzaAjDrh
>
>
> Feel free to reach out with any thoughts or questions!
>
> Thanks so much,
> Martin


If I learned one thing about what is needed for safe communications
among media activist communities and civil society groups is "fixing
bugs". Fix bugs, develop existing tools, write documentation, and make
time for people to learn how to use them. Of course funders, developers
and scientists are not so happy with 100 closed bug reports as they are
with a single piece of vaporware. But if there would be a few solid
things that work better, it would be much better for end users than
every technologist trying to convince them of something different and
not well tested.

Sorry about grumpy commenting -- I guess this was a last drop in a long
list of dissappointments -- brought on by research projects that try to
be constructive. :(

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