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Email Help

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Ross: /* Configuration for Sending Mail (SMTP) */

'''Email Setup and Configuration'''
----
''Greetings.''

Email for Occupy Boston is provided though MayFirst.org. They have some support documentation and FAQs, so if your questions are not answered here you might want to visit their support pages here: [https://support.mayfirst.org/wiki/faq https://support.mayfirst.org/wiki/faq] but generally speaking, the documentation you are viewing here is more current and tailored for OccupyBoston users.

==Quick Start (Just the settings: for experienced users)==
Configuring email just entails a certain set of options in which you tell servers
where to send things and how to send them (e.g. encrypted or not...)
So here's the short version of options for people who know how to set them:
;POP and IMAP settings:
* Server: boggs.mayfirst.org
* Encryption: SSL
* Port: 995 (for POP) or 993 (for IMAP)

;SMTP(Outgoing mail) settings
* Server: boggs.mayfirst.org
* Encryption: SSL/TLS (or STARTTLS)
* Login method: plain or login
* Port: 587
* Requires authentication: yes

==Step-By-Step: Creating a New Account==
This process is very similar whether you are setting up the email for your smart
phone or a laptop/desktop computer. You start by opening your email program and
creating a new account (This example is from an excellent free email software
client called Thunderbird, but it's similar to for example, an iPhone.)

[[File:Thunderbird00.jpg]]

==Configuring Email Client Software==
===Creating the Account===
''Your software might be different in its interface pages from our example here
(Thunderbird for Mac, Windows and Gnu/Linux), but in general they will all be
fairly similar, and if you need help you can just ask someone in IT or your
Working Group for help with your specific situation.''
When you click on the option to create a new account, you should see a window
where you can enter the UserName and Password you were given when the account
was created: 
[[File:Thunderbird01.jpeg]]

When you do this in Thunderbird (and some other email clients), it tries to
auto-configure the account for you by logging into a default server.
[[File:Thunderbird02.jpeg]]

After a brief Internet server transaction, the user is presented with the following auto-configured settings. (If your software doesn't attempt auto-configuration, just skip down to the POP/IMAP settings.)

[[File:Thunderbird03.jpeg]]

In this example, you can see it quessed at some options and filled them in
automatically (like it selected IMAP instead of POP). Sometimes it guesses it
all correctly, but it is strongly suggested that you manually configure the settings
the way you want them by selecting "Manual config". (In this case it failed to guess the server name correctly).

The crucial things we need to change here are the name of the server and the decision of POP vs IMAP as a way of receiving mail. 
Thunderbird tried to auto-configure your email account, and based on the email address you entered, it tried to use "mail.occupyboston.org" 
as the server. This, however, is not the email server to use. In fact, the server to use for sending and receiving email is: 
'''boggs.mayfirst.org'''

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==Configuration for Receiving Mail (POP vs. IMAP)==
The difference between the two mail delivery protocols is pretty significant. 
POP/POP3 
This protocol ("Post Office Protocol") is best used if you primarily read email on one computer (like a laptop), and want to sort, edit and access it while offline. With POP, when you check your email, the server checks for any new email and downloads it to your local machine, by default ''deleting it'' off the server. If you select POP as a protocol, the port should be 995. 
IMAP 
This protocol ("Internet Mail Access Protocol")is best used when you are accessing your email from many different machines, and want to ''leave your email messages on the server''. If you select IMAP as a protocol, the port should be 993.
 

Both/either protocols should be set to use SSL (or STARTTLS) encryption and normal password authentication.

==Configuration for Sending Mail (SMTP)==
After entering your choice of POP (port 995) or IMAP(port 993), make sure that the SMTP server is boggs.mayfirst.org, the port is 587, and a plain ("Normal") login authentication is required. Then you can go ahead and click the '''Create Account''' button. Your email client software should now be correctly set up.
 
We advise that you double check your account settings.

[[File:Thunderbird09.jpg]]

(Whichever email client you use, there should be some menu item that let's you view "Account Settings"...)

[[File:thunderbird08.jpg]]

In these settings, select the "Edit" button for SMTP or "Outgoing" mail.

[[File:Thunderbird07.jpeg]]

Here you can verify the Server Name, Port, Connection Security, etc. 
For that matter, you can also edit/correct any of the other settings as well, in case something was entered incorrectly. 
For example if you select the "Server Settings" for your account, you can adjust the settings for POP or IMAP.

[[File:Thunderbird05.jpeg]]
[[File:Thunderbird06.jpeg]]

Have fun!

==Avoiding Duplicate Email Addresses==
Sometimes people send emails to multiple lists, and we get many duplicate emails. In order to remove these duplicates you can install this plugin https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/remove-duplicate-messages/ .

Occupy Boston Summit Notes - Overflow Room

2011-11-19T22:53:59Z

Ross: Created page with "=These Notes Are From the Overflow Room= ==Needs Cleaning Up== 5. What story do we long for future generations to tell about Occupy Boston? I WILL - Organize my own area - Somerv..."

=These Notes Are From the Overflow Room=
==Needs Cleaning Up==
5. What story do we long for future generations to tell about Occupy Boston?
I WILL
- Organize my own area - Somerville
- Organize women's march on December 4
- Continue organizing the white people at my organization who are committed to anti-racism
- Organize artists
- Free School University - classes and teach-ins in the winter, and bigger in spring -- and then 6-week summer sesion with certificate to model free education that UMass doesn't do it
- Bring antiwar movement and Occupy mvoement together as one movement
- Attend to personal feelings of hopelessness and frustration that arise in myself, and remember that there are places like this where you don't have to feel that way
HIGHLIGHTS
* Once upon a time, Occupy Boston in solidarity with the rest of the Occupy Movement, triggered a shift in how we think about power. And the transfer of power from the elites to the people resulted in concrete changes to our existence - people and marginalized people for the betterment of society. And there's so much more!
* Occupy helped American society confront the problems with capitalism. We were the spark to reimagine the system. We had a peaceful revolution that reformed our politics and economy and bring attention to those who were ignored. We helped catalyze economic democracy that swept the globe, and we helped make authority obsolete. We pushed the limits of what was possible by breaking down the left-right dichotomy.
* Continuing with historical revolutions, it was a spark to end isolation and begin an age of true unity and democracy.
* Tell stories about Occupy - stood together against injustices of our time. The future should know that we made a difference by standing together.
* Occupy Boston provided a springboard to end the competitive tactics of patriarchy and unify a group of the 99% by localizing awareness on a national scale. And provided a turning point in the nation's previous agenda.
* Democratically arranged society to self-govern without hierarchy or oppression. Found ways to overcome previous people's movement's mistakes like ego and concentration of power. One person suggested that they hope people are so peaceful and harmonious that they won't even have to remember!
* We changed the system and achieved economic equality and social justice and a classless society that everyone now has equal access to education, health care, housing, nutritious food, and love. That everyone was heard or included. That my mommy brought me to every march and meeting.
* That we rehumanized society for everyone and not just the few. We backtracked the development of an empire. We reorganized the distribution of resources through our government, as well as we stopped global warming.
* An international movement came together. All they had to do was talk to each other respectfully. Conflict resolution and problem solving. They saved the environment and the world. They loved one another and lived happily ever after.
* Ross rocks!
Additional Points (Big Room you don't have to read it!)
* Future political leaders came out of the movement
* From all points of the world, people came together to reverse the tide and change the world
* We abolished consumerism.
* The baby in the room is making noises and waking up. =) The next generation is trying to speak for us!
* Occupy movements shifted what we were satisfied with. The amount of suffering we were willing to tolerate or that we were willing to ignore around us.
* People became responsible for what their dollars do.
* We know the 1% ... but we also have to look at the 49% and 50%. The 50% should make the same as the other 50%. So everyone can get equal income.
* Make civic engagement relevant so that everyone felt their voice was worth contributing whether one way or another, whether speaking with legislators or demonstrating, but everybody became civically active.
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4. What must we do to take Occupy Boston to the next level?
We will report back live while we hear yours.
* Neighborhood assemblies like in Spain
* Build on our groups that we've already mobilized - students, unions, veterans, anti-war movement, to move toward national general strike
* Bridge-building with people of different ethnicities
* Narrow down what is attainable now and figure out long term through popular education
* We need a multi-prong approach: hold current site as long as possible, look for permanent indoor sites for winter, and have spontaneous action and spread of smaller Occupations all over
* Effective broad communications of Occupy Boston's decision-making - invitations, meetings, etc.
* Make case on basis of information and not just ideology - facts speak for themselves
* Announce there's a trans awareness workshop tomorrow at 11 - Transgender Day of Remembrance tomorrow - PLEASE RESCHEDULE OCCUPATION ORIENTATION!
* Cement relationships with Occupy the Hood and Ocupemos el Barrio and repair relationships
* Community accountability process to address oppressive language and behavior in camp
* Connections with other organizations that share our values for specific projects such as service projects,protest actions (e.g., foreclosure demonstrations)
* Tell the story better
* Assess what we've done
* Simplify our message
* Educate - pass things out at T stations, make newsletter and newsletters
* Maintain set of diverse campaigns - follow where our success is and change where success isn't
* Help people connect with us in working groups
* Protect camp / winterize - and prepare for its destruction by extending connections
* Work against evictions - people are suffering, we want to stop it - identify what kind of abuse that leads to one of the most terrible forms of suffering such as evictions, how do we go about that, do we camp out at home that's being targeted for eviction or do we demand that the banks be prosecuted who are illegally doing these robo-signings and illegal committing mortgage fraud, etc. or do we identify new laws?
* Find ways to include people who are not in Boston participate who are in the communities
* Cleaning out the camp
* Have a bat signal like in New York
* Increase non-violent direct action to interrupt business as usual in places of power (mic checks) - last night some of us showed up at Newt Gingrich's book-signing - he canceled, packed up, and left
* Increase communication nationally and internationally
* Direct action organized like a flash mob - get in, get out; coordinate with other cities (e.g., BofA)
* Reaching out to towns that we normally wouldn't like Brockton
* Stealthily expand during the winter
* During the winter - occupy foreclosed homes or abandoned buildings - collaborate more with City Life
* Have a mass action like the one in Oakland where they shut down the port - possibly Verizon, having solidarity with labor and unions to get that accomplished
* Figuring out how a strategy for the election cycle in 2012
* Use Credo
* Moral corage
* Focus, focus, through four elements: Goals, demands, strategy, tactics - figure out what's achievable now, and in a year it'll be twice as ambitious - get demands and figure out how to accomplish it through strategy and tactics
* Every action should be focused against 1% - make it very clear
* All the problems we are facing - racism, sexism, ablism, all of those things are subsumed under the 1% - keep our eye on that
* Should produce a "I'm part of the 99%" bumper sticker
* Occupy a school like DC just did (they posted a couple minutes ago)
* Everyone's lifes and experiences are valid, but the conclusions they draw may not be
* We think that to take Occupy Boston to the next level, we need an agreed-upon protocol for the shifts (e.g., same protocol for breakfast/lunch shifts at food tent) that are occurring at the camp itself
* Using service as a means to organize
* Resurgence in spring
* Philadelphia conference next summer
* Teach in for lower schools (grade schools and high schools) not just college level
* Difficulty between inclusion but not wanting to speak for people who we are not, and having demands that are summarized in a good way
* We need demands because people want to know is this train going somewhere? And am I going to be on this or am I not wanted?
* Thanks!
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3. WHAT DO WE NEED NOW?
* Organization
* Connecting with other groups
* Better information about how people who are not camping can participate and help
* How to avoid the message being distracted, the media being distracted from message by behaviors that are noteworthy on the media
* Strategic plan with list of outcomes
* We have to be careful not to thing that we as the movement consisting mainly of middle-class and white and more male than female people, plus homeless contingent, represent the whole 99%, and so just generating wishes based on our perceptions, maybe exclusive rather than inclusive. More creatively involve people who may not identify as Occupy but who are actually part of 99%
* In light of all the egregious stuff continuing to occur, we do need a few demands to slow or stop that such as "Prosecute Wall Street"
* A winter plan, which might be to occupy a closed school or closed library
* Leave the square on our terms
* Continue to educate (broadly, not just social media)
* Draw attention to specific legislative actions - repeal or support
* Build democratic workplaces
* And support more individual economic action - be more conscious how we use money
* More conversations like this
* Supporting candidates or focusing on specific legislation
* Supporting other groups that may be occupying foreclosing buildings - City Life, Mass Uniting
* Getting numbers - petitioning for support for camp, reaching out to broader community for suport
* Massive winterizing tent at once, so cops can't stop us
* Organizing Red Cross and union presence
* Set up a Christmas tree to set up at campus so cops can't bulldoze it
* Restore the social programs and economic programs that we've lost in the last 50 years
* Win what we have not yet won
* Intergenerational dialogue
* Active listening
* Accountability
* Take money out of politics
* Taking buildings
* Guerilla occupations
* Demonstrating what we have accomplished, the things that the liberal discourse doesn't recognize as accomplishments such as rebuilding community, mutual aid
* What to do when we win a victory
* Thinking of demands that don't put a stress as liberal reformism -- create real change, not bolster existing institutions
* Non-police ways to deal with disruptions at camp
* A process to communicate internally that addresses oppressions and hierarchies at the camp and in the movement
* Addressing divisions that are emerging so we don't fall apart
* Support folks in the camp - see what help they need
* Building means for accurate external communications - newspaper is good start, but don't rely on media
* Cut down statement of purpose to a concise three points
* Write more op-ed pieces to combat negative press
* Personally communicate message to everyone we know everywhere
* Clean up the camp
* Minimize the ways they can marginalize us
* Reaching out to suburbs
* Sustainable movement beyond camp to execute political campaign
* Organizing nonviolent direct action
* Mobilizing and inspiring people
* Proactively address communities of color from decision-making with more transparency and communal dialogues - discuss Occupy the Hood and other occupations outside of white suburban areas so we can better address issues that affect all of us not just a few of us
* More organization and a few basic concrete demands
* Not divided by recognizing our commonality
* Understanding global system that's oppressing us and our connection to movements around the world
* Recognize that an overtly angry tone can turn people off from our message
*DONE!* THANK YOU MAIN ROOM WE LOVE YOU. =)
Thanks Ross for reading it.
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2. === VALUES WE WANT TO LIVE BY ===
* Nonviolence
* Inclusion
* Justice
* Environmental sanity
* Balance
* Solidarity
* Citizenship
* Change
* Compassion
* Listening
* Collective bargaining
* We don't have to accept what's given, we have choices including DIY, celebratory, creative, agile, strategic
* Two short ones but important -- anti-racism, changed that to equal rights for all
* Acknowledge complexity of problems that we face
* This is a big one, good job to us -- recognizing and communicating the fragility of the livelihoods of our friends, neighbors, and families
* Clarity
* Focus
* Discipline
* Transparent, democratic decision-making
* Addressing existing divisions so they don't weaken us further
* Anti-oppression
* Respect, equality, fairness, compassion
* Peace and prosperity for all not just few
* Economic justice
* Fairness
* Fairness in wages
* Access to education
* Access to healthcare
* Respect
* Civility
* Shared humanity
* Participation in government
* Love and respect
* Building trust through transparency and openness
* Acknowledging historical and current realities of oppression and the way that makes up the 99%
* Solidarity
* Treating others the way you want to be treated
* Actively participating
* Community
* Becoming more socially useful - Starting with the movement transferring into the rest of the world
* Share resources with all communities
* Moving towards health care food and medical for everybody
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1. === STORY SO FAR ===
* More than just economics
* People empowerment
* Class, race, gender
* Short discussion about whether we're the left or not
* No issue is secondary to another, including more of oppression and environmental issues
*
* Corporate power is what dominates
* It's okay not to have one answer figured out, we're setting up a process that'll take time
* Occupy Boston is supporting marginalized communities which are so often segregated from our culture
* Democracy is too strong to be (trounced by?) capitalism
* People are fed up -- started with banks and corporations, branched out to other inequalities
* Inclusion and family-like

Occupy Boston Summit

2011-11-19T22:53:12Z

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'''''Watch this space for updated information'''''Attending?  Please let us know so we can plan better by sending RSVP to: [mailto:obsummit@gmail.com obsummit@gmail.com]
 __TOC__
==Summit Flyer==
[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/images/a/a3/Occupy_Boston_Summit_flyer.pdf Download the flyer and spread the word!]
[[File:Occupy Boston Summit flyer.jpg|frame|none|Occupy Boston Summit, Nov 19, 2011, 2pm-6pm, Josiah Quincy Elementary School, 885 Washington St, Chinatown]]

==Working Draft Agenda==
'''Occupy Boston World Café Summit'''

Saturday, 19 November 2011, 2:00pm-6:00pm
Quincy Elementary School cafeteria, 885 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts

''Note: Other community members, including families with children, will be present in the school during our event. Please be respectful at all times!''

;Purpose
:The purpose of the summit is to have a community-wide discussion of the challenges and opportunities we face. It is a chance bring together camp residents, working group members, and anyone else who identifies as part of Occupy Boston to share ideas about how to make this movement strong and sustainable. It is an opportunity to harvest the collective wisdom of our OB community and to think creatively about our future.

;Event Hosting team
:Bhavin Patel, Susan Barney, Alex Ingram, Nicole Sullivan, George Lee, Mariama White-Hammond, Maureen White, Angela Giudice, Katie Gradowski, Bil Lewis, Greg Murphy, Susie Husted, Ester Serra Luque, Allison Nevitt,

;Facilitation team
:Andrea Nagel, Melinda Weekes, Cynthia Parker, Jen Willsea, Deborah Gillburg

===What are we talking about?===
*Using a process called World Café, we invite you to a dialogue about these very important questions:
*What is the story of this movement?
*What are the values that we want to live by?
*What do we need now?
*How do we take this to the next level?

[[Summit_Notes]]

==The World Café Process==

The World Café a flexible facilitated process that is aimed at creating collaborative dialogue, sharing mutual knowledge and discovering new opportunities for action. The approach enables dynamic conversations to catalyze a group’s collective intelligence around the questions and issues that matter most to the people in the room. The conversations are held in small groups, around café-style tables, and upon the completion of one conversation round, people move to new table to spread what they are learning. In between the successive rounds of discussion, the large group ‘harvests’ the patterns that arise and the ideas, questions and themes that start to link and connect. The broadness of the questions allows participants to generate the content of the discussion. Folks can voice what's on their hearts and minds throughout the conversations. Please bring your reflections about what has happened with Occupy Boston this week and over the past two months!

''Via http://www.theworldcafe.com/method.html :''
<blockquote>
Drawing on seven integrated design principles, the World Café methodology is a simple, effective, and flexible format for hosting large group dialogue. 

World Café can be modified to meet a wide variety of needs. Specifics of context, numbers, purpose, location, and other circumstances are factored into each event's unique invitation, design, and question choice, but the following five components comprise the basic model: 

1) Setting: Create a "special" environment, most often modelled after a café, i.e. small round tables covered with a checkered tablecloth, butcher block paper, colored pens, a vase of flowers, and optional "talking stick" item. There should be four chairs at each table. 

2) Welcome and Introduction: The host begins with a warm welcome and an introduction to the World Café process, setting the context and putting participants at ease. 

3) Small Group Rounds: The process begins with the first of three or more twenty minute rounds of conversation for the small group seated around a table. At the end of the twenty minutes, each member of the group moves to a different new table. They may or may not choose to leave one person as the "table host" for the next round, who welcomes the next group and briefly fills them in on what happened in the previous round. 

4) Questions: each round is prefaced with a question designed for the specific context and desired purpose of the session. The same questions can be used for more than one round, or they can be built upon each other to focus the conversation or guide its direction. 

5) Harvest: After the small groups (and/or in between rounds, as desired) individuals are invited to share insights or other results from their conversations with the rest of the large group. These results are reflected visually in a variety of ways, most often using graphic recorders in the front of the room.
</blockquote>

http://www.theworldcafecommunity.org/video/world-cafe-guidelines

http://www.theworldcafe.com/overview.html

'''Process Guidelines:'''
*Focus on what matters
*Be curious - Listen to really understand
*Step up, step back
*Speak and listen with heart and mind
*Use and link ideas of others
*Make ideas visible - play, scribble, draw on the table covers
*Have FUN!

'''How To Improve Communication:'''
*Be Curious and Open to Learning:Listen to and be open to hearing all points of view. Maintain a attitude of exploration and learning.
Balance Advocacy and Inquiry: Seek to learn and understand as much as you might want to persuade. Conversations are as much about listening as it is about talking.
*Show Respect and Suspend Judgment: Setting judgments aside will enable you to learn from others and contribute to others experiencing being respected and appreciated.
*Seek Alignment rather than Agreement:Alignmentis shared intention, whereas agreement is having a shared belief or opinion.
*Be Purposeful and to the Point:Notice if what you are conveying is or is not “on purpose” to the question at hand. Notice if you are making the same point more than once. Do your best to make your point quickly with honesty and depth.
*Own and Guide the Conversation or Process: Take responsibility for the quality of your participation and the quality of the work conversations by noticing what’s happening and actively support getting yourself and others back “on purpose” when needed.
*Be Excellent to Each other:Share what’s important to you. Speak authentically; from your personal and heart felt experience. Be considerate to others who are doing the same.

==Call for Occupy Boston Summit==
Date: '''November 8, 2011''' 
Subject: '''Call for an Occupy Boston Summit Nov.19'''

'''Hello Occupiers,'''

There have been many conversations in various working groups recently about the challenges facing our Occupy Boston community, especially as winter approaches. There seems to be a general feeling that we are at a critical moment, a moment when we need to ask ourselves some key questions about how to make the Boston branch of the Occupy movement sustainable, so that we can continue to have space to address the widening inequality in our society.

In light of this, many of us have been discussing the idea of gathering our community for an "Occupy Boston Summit" to address some of these key questions about where we are headed. It would not be a GA or a decision making session, but rather a community-wide discussion of the challenges and opportunities we face. It is a chance bring together camp residents, working group members, and anyone else who identifies as part of Occupy Boston to share ideas about how to make this movement strong and sustainable.

This idea has been discussed over the past few days by many people active with Occupy Boston: Mariama White-Hammond, Susie Husted, Alex Ingram, Nicole Sullivan, Noah McKenna, Katie Gradowski, Chris Williams, Carl Williams, Bhavin Patel, Angela Giudice, Allison Nevitt, Greg Murphy, and others in Facilitation and Anti-Oppression. All together, these folks are active with a cross-section of the working groups: Outreach, Media, Women's Caucus, Anti-Oppression, People of Color, Queer/Trans Caucus, Media, Facilitation, Ideas, Direct Action, Community Organizations, Social, Financial Accountability, and Legal. There is broad support for convening a summit as a "meeting of the minds" to harvest the collective wisdom of our OB community and to think creatively about our future.

I have connected with some skilled facilitators from the Interaction Institute for Social Change who are trained in some innovative techniques for helping large groups address challenges and opportunities in a strategic way. They have volunteered to facilitate a summit on Saturday, November 19, from 2-6pm. A couple of us are looking for an indoor space close to Dewey Square that we could use for this gathering.

As I am one of the many people helping to get this ball rolling, please feel free to be in contact with me about it. Any contributions to make this a positive event for our community are welcome. A flyer including the location is coming soon. Please spread the word!

In solidarty 
'''Maureen White'''

''Posted to numerous Occupy Boston Lists, including:'' 
*Outreach WG
*Media WG
*Transparency WG
*Ideas WG
*IT WG
*Community Organizations/Movement Building
*Anti-Oppression WG

==Directions==
Occupy Boston Summit

Saturday, November 19, 2011 
2pm - 6pm

Josiah Quincy Elementary School 
885 Washington Street in Chinatown

15 minute walk from Dewey Square, 
or 11 minute walk from Downtown Crossing Red Line stop, 
or Orange Line to Tufts Med. Ctr.

WG/OBIT

2011-11-01T20:51:10Z

Ross: /* Occupy Boston Information Technology Group */

Help

2011-10-31T15:18:30Z

Ross:

===general notes on organization===
:This wiki collects information and ideas that can help to grow the Occupy Boston movement. As authors we want to create compelling and interesting content. To a large extent, the wiki organizes itself as we link to each others ideas.

:This wiki (Mediawiki(same software that runs Wikipedia) allows the creation of webspaces for each user and working group.

====personal webspaces====
:As a general guideline, we suggest that you put your developing work, personal manifestos and collected interesting stuff in your user webspace. Consider the main wiki to be a public face of Occupy Boston and as such it should draw in readers to the movement with concise well edited content.

====[[Working Groups]] - pages a workspaces====
:[[Working Groups]] have a public face and can have a group workspace. To have a workspace for the group create a working group account by [http://wiki.occupyboston.org/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup creating a new user account] following the convention User:WG-groupname and create internal working group content as subpages of User:WG-groupname ([[#creating a subdirectory in your webspace|see below]])

====referencing other documents====
=====to link to pages on the wiki=====
:Put a link using double brackets and the name at the top of the page like this <nowiki>[[page name]]</nowiki>
=====to link to pages on other sites=====
:You can create a link to content off site by creating a link with single brackets like this <nowiki>[http://urlofpage.com/page]</nowiki>
====posting a document hosted only on your personal computer====
:Click on 'Upload file' on the left menu bar.
====Adding Notes====
*Notes about format and language often belong right on the page.
*Notes should be in brackets and announced. [Note: This is an example of a note.]

In order to contribute you need to...
===to create a login account on occupyboston wiki===
#click-on the '''''login/create_account button''''' in the upper right corner
#click on "Create an Account"
#Put in username, password and email

===Creating content (basic)===
:Creating your own content is easy. You can edit any page by clicking on '''Edit this page (top right)''' . You can comment on any page by clicking on '''Discussion''' tab. After you add your content sign it by clicking on the '''signature button''' (the second button from the right on top or enter <nowiki>~~~</nowiki>) then '''save page (bottom)'''.[[User:Mcktimo|Mcktimo]] 00:47, 23 October 2011 (EDT)

====creating content in your webspace====
:1st make sure you are logged in.
:To write in your page click on your username at the top of the page. Click on edit this page. Just start writing at the top of the page. Your prior writing will be pushed down and your most current writing will always be at the top of the page. Start a new paragraph by skipping a line. Don't indent(if you want a paragraph to be indented put a : in front of it). Hit '''save page''' (at the bottom of the page) to save your work. Do it often!

{{:creating a user: subpage}}

====making a table of contents and titles/heading====
:To organize your work give each piece of writing its own title. To create a title, type, on its own line: 
<nowiki>==your title here==</nowiki>
=====making <nowiki>__NOTOC__</nowiki>=====
:Put that at the top of your page if you don't want to show a table of contents.

====you cannot erase====
:You can always get back to a prior version of the page by clicking on it in '''view history'''(top right)

====taking notes, creating lists====
To organize your notes you can use bullet lists and numbered lists. To create a bullet list like this
*first point
*another point
*etc
just start a line with an *
 For a numbered list
#first
#second
#third
just start each line with a # symbol (don't skip lines)

====writing a poem====
:If you don't skip a line the text on the next line always 'wraps' to follow the text on the line above. Sometimes that's not cool,like for a poem. To avoid word wrap you can use <nowiki><pre> </pre></nowiki>

:Another way to prevent word wrap is to just skip a line.

==== using the graphical editor====
:A graphical editor is a little slower. It hides the guts of the wiki markup language.

==== moving stuff from Word? ====
:Write in Word. Single spaced, do not indent first lines, skip lines between paragraphs. Copy and paste into the wiki when you are done.

There are many other cool things you can try that create nice pages...

==other help==
===[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing#Editing_Basics Editing and Formatting]===

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents

A lot of HTML will work in the wiki. Try [http://www.tedmontgomery.com/tutorial/index.html editing HTML]

===[[SandBox]]===
:To try out formattng and editing features use this space
===[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images help:images]===

===[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words Magic Words]===
If you want to be able to do some thing like Wikipedia does we may need to add an extension. Find somebody from the OBIT(tech) working group and we'll try to get it set up.

=== Checking occupyboston.org email ===
To check your occupyboston.org email address go to [https://members.mayfirst.org the May First/People Link member page] choose boggs as the server and enter your username and password.

For other email related questions check these [https://support.mayfirst.org/wiki/faq#EmailRelated FAQs].

=== Managing Mailing Lists ===
If you need to manage your mailing list, please read over these [https://support.mayfirst.org/wiki/faq#MailmanEmailListRelated FAQs]. If you cannot find and answer to your question, email obit@lists.mayfirst.org and ask for assistance.

If you need to set up a new email address email obit@lists.mayfirst.org and someone will set up a list for you.

Help

2011-10-31T13:52:16Z

Ross: