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Thank you so much for starting this thread. I am going to my first DSA meeting on Thursday. 
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Ace of Baes posted:I will add everyone who posted to the OP when I get home tonight, glad to see so many DSA goons! Apparently I may be running into you at the CO DSA meeting on Thursday. Quick question, to show up to a meeting you have to be a dues paying member, correct? If so, I'd like to sort that out beforehand.
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Thanks for the quick response. I definitely will, was just trying to figure out if I needed to sort that out for my wife and I before we went. Already have a bunch of reoccurring donations set up to progressive causes and the DSA is certainly welcome to their 
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Greatbacon posted:There's currently work underway to formally organize a chapter in Denver. Oh man, this is super helpful. Making it to the Boulder meeting on Thursday was going to be a pain. Was going to be late no matter which way I sliced it. Excited for the Denver DSA! My wife and I will definitely be there on Saturday.
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Ace of Baes posted:Went to a DSA meeting last night in Denver, pretty good turnout, was a social meet so got a little drunk with a bunch of socialists, good times. Ah man, my wife and I were there. I thought you were strictly a Boulder man. I'm sure we ran into you. Also yeah, it was definitely a good time. Looking forward to the next meeting.
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jarofpiss posted:we also got a young turks interview but no confirmation on which turk This is awesome. Should be good exposure.
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Feb 6, 2017 03:09
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I am now officially a DSA member. 
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MShadowy posted:Don't have a facebook, but that's good to hear. Thank you; I'll try and get down there if I can. You can also follow them on Twitter at @thedenverdsa. I had a good time at their social meeting this weekend too. Definitely come out if you can, it's a good feeling to start to get involved.
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FCKGW posted:Followed, maybe someday ill have enough courage to make it to a meeting Just go, no courage necessary. I'm about as antisocial as they get and it was a great experience.
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It's pretty straight forward. We're taking the party back for the working class. Next question?
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Ace are you at this DSA Denver meeting? I'm here with my wife, shirt with a tree-like thing on it.
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MShadowy posted:Just got back from the Denver DSA meeting; glad I had a chance to participate. Got pretty hot in that little room with all the people attending, but that's fine. I think I count 4 Goons in the Denver DSA (including my wife.)  We should meet up next time.
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MShadowy posted:I'd be glad to; and I guess as to a hint to my identity. Ah, you and I talked. My wife and I were leaning against the wall across from you once we shuffled the rooms. Love your Starsector stuff! We'll have to catch up next time.
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Wow, and I thought Denver's was going quick. That must be awesome. You guys be sure to get poo poo done while the rest of us catch up.
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Top City Homo posted:In honor of the budding revolution I would like to remind everyone that you can only build a mass organization with an actual infrastructure This is really awesome. We recently started discussing software and infrastructure at our DSA meeting. Apparently it is a requirement from DSA national that a chapter has the ability to rapidly reach out to members (via text, call, etc) for flash gatherings like airport protests. We formed a small committee to start setting that up, but our chapter is just getting started and there is such an obvious need for infrastructure in general. Action Network seems to imply that it is free for "small groups," but I couldn't find the definition of that or pricing otherwise. To me it definitely seems like the way to go. It integrates with a bunch of stuff, including CallHub. Also it looks like SalesForce has a 10 user license available for non-profits. I think DSA chapters are 501(c)(3), which sounds like it qualifies. I will definitely post some guides once we start making more progress. I think having the right infrastructure in place is probably one of the most important things we can do. I'm actually surprised that DSA national does not have something in place for its chapters.
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Doorknob Slobber posted:Does anyone have any examples of sites that use this for this purpose? I'm thinking of building a site for my county and want to see some examples of how this looks when its set up. That link is to their developer info. Their main site has a link to an online interactive demo - https://www.oxwall.com/demo As far as ActionNetwork goes, I heard back from them and there's basically no limit to a "small group." It's just what features you need. The "paid" version has a $10/month minimum charge, which comes with 10k emails. After that it is $1/1k emails. So, ah... ActionNetwork seems like a no-brainer to me. I think that doing highly customized or technical stuff for local chapters is a mistake. By the nature of being volunteer, the turnover is generally going to be higher and supportability should be a huge factor in choosing a solution.
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If the DSA wasn't a political organization it would be a 501(c)(3) instead of a 501(c)(4) and would make things a whole lot easier. It is a 501(c)(4) and can therefore endorse candidates, making it a political organization. [Edit: A charitable organization must stay out of political campaigns, while a social welfare organization can participate if campaigning is not the primary function.]
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Ruzihm posted:New signup page for DSA chat: https://dsachat-register.herokuapp.com/ I thought they were switching to Rocketchat or something?
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Hmm... I wish they enforced some sort of standard for usernames. Like Real Name - Chapter or something.
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Our local chapter is doing a book club and the first book is the ABCs of Socialism. Seems like a good place to start. It's a quick read.
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On the whole tech side of things, I am starting the process of getting our chapter set up with Action Network and CallHub. Things still need to be officially decided and all that, but I will try to take decent notes to share once we really dive in.
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El Mero Mero posted:
This is awesome, thanks for posting it!
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logikv9 posted:caught up Sorry, I may be retarded but I don't see mine. Am I missing something? 
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Oh, okay. I'm not retarded! YAY!
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The infrastructure thing is such a huge problem. There's actually a sign-up here to volunteer with the National Tech Committee. Anyone has anything they could contribute should sign up.
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Is there any decent argument for doing your own web design and hosting your own poo poo instead of just using SquareSpace / Wix / Weebly?
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Our new chapter has an outreach committee that plans to do those things. I think it is a pretty common idea, and a pretty good one!
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Speaking of RocketChat, are they still really behind on invites? Had applied like 2 weeks before the swap to Slack, never got a response. Applied using the new RocketChat link about a week ago, no response.
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Anyone at this Denver DSA meeting?
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Fullhouse posted:I got one in literally 5 minutes, it's supposed to be an automated process. Make sure you're using the email address you're registered with and try again Well, apparently 3rd times a charm. Not sure how it didn't work before. I tried before they sent out their whole "moving to RocketChat" memo out, so maybe it wasn't quite ready yet. Now to find out how well it handles "family" memberships, because I am pretty sure my wife's email address wasn't asked for in the registration process.
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And thus the democratic in democratic socialism.
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... You think not posting the registration link to DSA RocketChat on SA is going to stop the FBI from infiltrating the DSA? 
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I mean, Goonfleet has a stricter vetting process. You can exactly be a big tent party and  spooks at the same time.
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Oh noes I found one dsausa.org
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GlyphGryph posted:The specific security concern you are bringing up is not. You are literally trading massive amounts of utility for zero security. Thanks for taking the time to type this out. I'm too lazy. unbutthurtable posted:This is not a secret, goddamn. I'm just saying not to put it on a public forum. I'm fairly sure the RockChat invites are automated now.
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A picture... of a screen... of a tweet?!?!
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Good lord. You notification bar is the worst thing about this. Are you running loving antivirus on your phone?
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HBar posted:New chapter map from young harrington: Colorado is a bit of a clusterfuck right now, otherwise there would likely be a few more pins around Boulder. There's some kerfuffle about how DSA was formed in the state and bringing up other chapters besides Boulder involves some awkwardness.
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