Yeah, it is read-only for me too, so, i guess it’s for everyone.
dmitrykleymenov
wolf4earth
professorsnapper
Thanks to @wolf4earth for sorting out some config issues! I’m grateful.
As a way of starting to make the Discord server a bit more hospitable, I’ve added a channel for folks to introduce themselves & their interests, and one for thumbnail sketches for projects, seeds for ideas, etc. Swing on by!
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jhefreyzz
professorsnapper
That’s an emphatic yes! It’s all pretty humble at present, but as the Paul Kelly song goes, “From little things, big things grow”…
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professorsnapper
For those interested, another couple of books which are highly relevant to this whole caper:
People Powered: How Communities Can Supercharge Your Business, Brand, and Teams
The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation (Second Edition)
Both books are written by Jono Bacon, who some here will remember as community manager (or some similar title) at Ubuntu for many years - I remember reading an interview with him in Linux Format magazine on the topic many years ago. I will be adding both of these books to my burgeoning reading list, because I’m sure what Jono has to say can help us avoid some unnecessary mis-steps & pitfalls, and put us on The Happy Path… 
And these books could make for good candidates for a book club, no?
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professorsnapper
HI Marcin,
I wonder if there’s any possible application for Proca in assisting Developers for Good itself? And is it open-source? Perhaps this warrants a discussion… 
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marcin
Hello,
Yes, Proca is a drop-in element but also a building block of tools for organisations, informal groups and communities to engage their members in online action.
An action tool cycle is this:
- present a relevant online action to people who care about something
- facilitate the action
- perhaps collect action data and/or member email/phone to get back to them
There is some abstractions and heavy lifting here that every action tool should implement - Proca is a toolbox that packages these mechanisms and complexities, so you don’t have to reinvent the wheel.
For example: how to handle scale (wave of interest after viral social media video), privacy/GDPR, member action screening, sync to CRM, collect donations via Stripe/PayPal, sending thank you email in the right language when your audience is multilingual and many similar details.
Proca is Free Software - so an organisation can host their server, or Elixir for Good can, or if neither want to bear the maintenance cost, we do suck paid hosting (this being our business model).
- Website: https://proca.app
- ExDoc: https://docs.proca.app (need some care definitely)
Last but not least: Proca is not meant to fill every need. For example, if a group needs a survey on their website, then maybe it’s better to embed Typeform, as they have really beautiful and polished surveys
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johnhitz
I tried to join the Discord server via the link you posted last week. It says “Invite Invalid.” Do you have a new link or did you move the channel?
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professorsnapper
Hi @johnhitz , neither! Or at least, to the very best of my knowledge. @wolf4earth has kindly been helping in setting up the Discord server - this is an ongoing process - and last time we spoke, things were working fine. I’ve lodged a detailed support request with Discord, who have proven to be pretty quick on the turnaround and helpful too, so I expect we’ll have this resolved soon.
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