Hi Beautiful Humans of #WeAreTwitter!

I think this group could really grow some legs, but it's going to take work. Two reasons for my optimism: 1) The strategizing session at the #PlatformCoop conference last weekend, & 2) @BonnieOWong's recent proposal to organize from the bottom-up and organize those Twitter-users feeling even less safe than before post-Trump election.

If we're not just blowing steam on one mad rush to buy twitter, I believe it critical that we turn a critical and thorough eye to group culture and formation. Bonnie also mentioned some group formation strategies that you'll also see quoted below; and I'm going to start off with a proposal asking people's relative commitment levels. I think it may also be prudent that we go through the (always amusingly challenging) decision-making process of choosing a name collectively.

Some strategy points I want to amplify from Bonnie:
> - I would intentionally and actively seek out/recruit people who have a better idea of sub-communities within Twitter, like black people, women, people from the LGBTQ community, aboriginal communities and others that I've missed
>- I would find someone to lead a group that specifically addresses the hate issues on Twitter
>- I would recruit people to lead the conversations on functional areas, such as campaigns/community management, M&A/capital raising, a team specifically to engage with current Twitter leadership, a team specifically to engage with major Twitter shareholders, a team specifically to engage with Twitter staff, a team just focused on revenue generation.
>- For each of these teams have at least two co-leaders, hopefully with shared vision, but enough differences in perspectives to ensure bases are covered
>- I would establish a means of communication - a weekly debrief and way of distributing actions
>- Goals would be set collectively - small and achievable so that each week we could experience progress

in case it helps for people to assess commitment, here are

Current #WeAreTwitter Initiatives

1) couple folks are working on Livestream Panel initiative e.g. @maira & @carbonpenguin [coordinating loomio-thread]

2) forming a Platform Acquisition Co-op sub-group to look more primarily at the goal of forming an institution by which to purchase Twitter or another somesuch "death star"/ substantial p2p media platform, initiated by @samtoland here: [coordinating loomio-thread

and perhaps most interestingly,
3) @bonnieowong 's suggestion that we begin to organize in solidarity with the groups who receive the worst effects of TWTR's unfettered bullying & harrassment culture. This dialogue is currently in #talkingshop for now, but I hope that a Loomio thread is soon begun/ recycled to at least work towards building a culture of diversity, inclusion, as well as access and ownership (or perhaps this channel will begin to serve this way...)

4) #WeAreTwitter Petition [coordinating slack-channel]

you can edit this list of initiatives by hitting the "edit" button just under the title of this thread :) Please add any initiatives you're aware of!