[Imc-alternatives] how to get involved in crabgrass

[Jay]

(from Daniel, one of the crabgrass developers)

hi,

I'm daniel, part of riseuplabs, and a project manager for Crabgrass. 
Crabgrass development is being undertaken by a handful of 
organization and individuals. Its already a pretty kickass piece of 
software, but there is no shortage of development needs and wants.

Whos working on Crabgrass?
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Riseup folks are steadily developing crabgrass, squashing bugs, 
adding new features, and plotting towards the goal of building a tool 
to empower directly democratic networks.

Radical Designs is actively developing crabgrass for a client called 
Greenchange. They have been key in building our collaboration 
workflow as well as adding features, and fixing bugs. Radical Designs 
will be adding a bunch of new social networking features to crabgrass 
in the coming months. Also, the Brattelborro Collective is developing 
calendaring for Crabgrass as part of Greenchange develeopment.

Many other individuals have participated in security patches, bug 
fixes, and feature changes. Of note is a developer who is developing 
Cragrass for use by the UNDP in Europe and Central Asia.

How to Get Involved
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OK, now that you got the basic lay of the land, here are the steps 
for jumping in.

1. Create an account at we.riseup.net and request to join the 
crabgrass-dev group. Be explicit when requesting access to this 
group. Tell us who you are, that you received an email from daniel 
(me), and whatever else you want to add by way of introduction.

2. On the crabgrass-dev homepage you will find information regarding 
crabgrass installation. check em out and feel free to ask questions 
of the crabgrass-dev group.

3. Once you have crabgrass installed locally, check this page out if 
you're looking for ideas of projects to work on. Don't feel 
restricted by these ideas :) 
<https://we.riseup.net/crabgrass-dev/discrete-crabgrass-projects>https://we.riseup.net/crabgrass-dev/discrete-crabgrass-projects

We've had a great response to the newsletter. Many skilled folks are 
steppin up. Its a good time to get involved.

Best,
Daniel
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