Abstract and preface

This page formulates responsibilities of the admin collective.

This group is for long-term organization. For faster responses our mailing list might be more suitable: ISM admin collective list. Just write to its address, no subscription needed! The list is being moderated but any (non-spam) requests will be distributed to the collective.

Sense and principles of the admin collective

The communication infrastructure of the ISM (international student movement) is maintained by the admin collective as a platform to inform about activities, political developments, and repression in connection with our struggle against the increasing commercialization of education (as well as all other aspects of our lives) and for free emancipative education. At times it can also be used to inform about other issues related to the struggle for emancipation (e.g. struggle against fascist ideology, patriarchy, racism, trans-/homophobia etc.).
The ISM admin collective remains dedicated to facilitating the flow of knowledge from the front lines of the education struggle and under no circumstance will result to the promotion of party politics or conspiracy theories.
The collective shares no messages of people that are not respecting the basic principles of the ISM, but it also doesn’t see itself in a position to judge the methods used by others in the struggle since conditions are different around the world. For an international platform it is essential to respect the evaluation that each group makes of their strategies in the struggle on the local level. Summarizing, we share information and take no stance on the use of tactics throughout the wide education movement.
The collective aims to put news of developments/protests on the local and national level into a global context when reporting about them.

There are dozens of tasks belonging to the admins collective responsibilities. This we.riseup.net-group is for those who take care of some of these tasks. By joining the group you are not automatically responsible for all listed tasks. Except for keeping this (and only this) we.riseup.net-group up to date.

All members of the collective need to support our self-conception.

Once you are a member you can file tasks, edit wiki pages, have long term discussion et cetera. Consider subscribing to the admin collective’s ML ASAP (as soon as possible) if you haven’t done yet so.

Maintenance of communcation infrastructure

Fassbook

There is a dedicated council for tasks on FB.

Following pages are administered by some of the administration collective:

Each page needs people regularly doing some research on activities and developments related to the struggle and share these as well as updates/announcements communicated on the global ISM mailing list (e. g. invitations to chat meetings).

Twitter

There’s one general twitter account: https://twitter.com/ISM030. Tasks include

Mailing lists

Some of the used mailing lists are moderated.

Tasks for all the MLs:

Inviting to chat meetings (via)

Website administration

→ see also website

Drupal till 2015

Joomla since 2015

The site is not yet done (2015-01-25): https://ism.uebergebuehr.de/

Crabgrass Maintenance

Last but not least several we.riseup.net-groups have to be kept alive:

For some of those groups there are seperate administration councils you have to be member of to do any administrative tasks. Those include approving or rejecting member subscription requests (if applicable), changing the group’s image/name/description, and so forth.

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