WG/OBIT

Occupy Boston Information Technology Group

Welcome to OBIT, serving Occupy Boston's information and technology needs!

Best Contacts: obit@occupyboston.org

Mailing list w/public archive: obit@lists.mayfirst.org (info)[1]

IRC channel: #OccupyBoston on irc.indymedia.org

Internal IRC channel: #OccupyBostonIT

To Register a Support Ticket

Online Chat (fastest way to get support)

Discussion

Working Group Meetings

If you would like to jump right into OBIT, come to one of our working group meetings.

We've been meeting at 3pm Sundays, generally over lunch at Boloco (Copley Square). We usually have email discussions prior to meetings; you can check by looking for recent messages on https://lists.mayfirst.org/pipermail/obit/

Projects and Implementation Details

• Email Account Cleanup
• Mailing List Cleanup
• SOPA/PIPA Proposal
• Improving Occupy Boston Groups
• WG/OBIT/Wikispaces Migration
• WG/OBIT/Mediawiki Organization
• Todos
• project ideas
• Crowd Sourcing Platforms List for discussion
• IP Ranges blocking for voices.occupyboston.org
• Mediawiki Host Move

Meeting Notes

2011

• October 19
• October 21
• October 30
• November 6
• November 13
• November 16
• November 20
• December 21

2012

• January 18 (OBIT/Media)
• January 25
• February 1
• February 8
• February 12
• February 19
• February 26
• February 29
• March 4
• March 7
• March 9 (Wiki Teach-In Planning Meeting)
• March 11
• March 14
• March 15 (Wiki Teach-In Planning Meeting)
• March 21
• March 25
• March 28
• April 15
• April 18
• May 6
• May 13
• May 20
• May 30
• Jun 10
• June 14
• June 21
• June 28
• July 1 (v2dev hackathon)
• July 5
• Oct 11
• Oct 14
• Nov 4
• Nov 18

2013

• Jan 20
• Feb 3
• Feb 17
• Feb 24
• Mar 3
• Mar 31

How Tos

• How to Post an Article on Wordpress
• Spurious Mailman Unsubscribes
• IRC Guide
• Mailing List Management Help
• Email Creation for Tech Admins
• Configuring Your Email Client for OccupyBoston.org email accounts
• Email Help (includes Thunderbird Example)
• HowTo: make a link!
• draft help file Mcktimo 23:05, 23 October 2011 (EDT)
• IRC Meeting Conventions
• Using Ices2 to stream.
• to sign up for a list
• Creating a MediaWiki Development Environment
• Creating a groups.occupyboston.org (v2) Development Environment
• Creating a occupyboston.org Development Environment
• Getting Started With GnuPG

Internal Procedures

• Obit Email
• WG/OBIT/Services
• Mediawiki Deleted Page and Spam Account Cleanup
• Updating Drupal Installations
• Mailing List Archive Howto

Members

Ross is here

Randy is too. All the other OBITeurs are zombies?