IzyaKatzmann

hi, I've been pretty happy with macOS recently on my m1 MacBook, really only because I've been paying for software from awesome devs who make great apps (plenty are open source, so most I use are not paid) and I've found my productivity increase like a lot.

It's like I'm fighting less with the computer and the OS, and sorta working together with it. Since it's a mac though it's still a pain. When I install things with brew or software straight from the dev I need to do this dance to be able to use it (since it's from an 'unidentified' developer).

I wanted to try out Asahi, I saw that there was a new version released recently, any folks here who daily drive it and could share their experience? This is currently my main machine so I'm a bit hesitant in swapping over (I guess I could dual boot?) and school is out atm so I have a bit of time to troubleshoot and feel comfortable in a new environment.

thanks in advance~

EDIT: I am mostly familiar with Debian/ubuntu, I run stuff headless and SSH into it, like at the moment I have a proxmox 8 server and some raspberry pi's that I use to host stuff. I have a windows 11 pc which I use for playing some games and to run certain kinds of software.

Background

Hi all, I'm part of a small NGO which has a long history but small membership due to some unfortunate events in the past. The membership was almost in the thousands across the country it's in, and now it's only in the dozens. Other orgs siphoned off members, a split happened (which didn't go anywhere) and there was a scandal that saw more people leave or resign.

This is all to say that the members of the NGO are a bit older and not very knowledgeable about technology. We use forms and take minutes during our meetings. We have in-person events, including educational, discussion, helping out other orgs, pamphleting, putting up posters, and use social media and to advertise.

Our membership is growing again but this time we are looking to be organized. Using stuff like a shared events calendar and a mailing list (right now it's a bunch of emails in a word doc that are copy pasted in gmail). Logging our experiences during events and creating maps for our postering runs. Ideally we'd like to self-host what we can since some folks donated hardware.

The Ask

My question is what would be a good approach to creating a cohesive tech stack? Things are disjointed right now and I've been working on stuff on my own but I'm a bit lost and was looking for advice. I'll write what I have done so far.

Specific Tools

Proxmox Server – to manage different machines as we add to it

MediaWiki – I set one up to have members add entries for their experiences during events for a repository of unstructured qualitative data, I used docker and cloudflare zero trust (adding emails to a whitelist and with a country whitelist) to limit who can access the wiki along with permissions for each user, not sure if this is good security practice, the mediawiki is in its own container in proxmox

OpenStreetMap – I haven't set this up yet but I wanted to annotate the different routes people could take when putting up posters, I haven't looked into if there's a street view type feature where I could add a photo to each point to show how the posters should be placed

Radicale – This would be for having better access over a shared calendar

Prospective Tools?

Guides – We do stuff like brew beer in small batches to sell at some of our events, we spent a bunch of cash on printing logos on sticker paper to put on the bottles, we learned along the way how to do it cheaply and would like to ensure that knowledge stays with us next time around, I think this might work as a section in the mediawiki but idk

Closing Thoughts

There's other stuff too like secure storage and maybe like an equivalent of wikimedia for our art/visual resources. Places to have our slideshows from our educational events and list of people to go to for different things (e.g. I and another person can make logos and simple art stuff). We also use whatsapp and signal atm and that seems to work but there is some interest in something like slack or teams for structured conversation.

If you haven't noticed I don't really know what I am doing and I'm a bit in over my head. I am having a ton of fun even though it's frustrating. I get that planning everything out isn't necessarily the best idea but it reduces my anxiety a ton to know there's some kind of a roadmap.

Thanks in advance!!

I'm part of a local organization in the imperial core. I like the people there and they are all very well read and have a good understanding of theory, much more than myself.

The methods used to organize seem a bit dated and I'm not quite sure why. To give an example, people are expected to contact one another to let them know about whether events are happening or not. I think this is great, when I first joined this helped make it feel more personable. It felt like there was already a development of camaraderie since there was a name and a face behind every message that I knew. This doesn't always work though, since some members don't always remember and don't remind others and there isn't a definitive list of members. It's more so word of mouth and the different people who are in someone's recent text messages.

Something like this could definitely be more well organized right? When I brought up working on some kind of spreadsheet, mailing list, or calendar they told me that they relied on sort of a network effect (they used a different terminology) where some people will let others know and then those people will let others know, etc. I struggle to see how the two methods are incompatible or mutually exclusive. If the concern is about leaking information, there are authentication methods which could be used to silo off information.

The only sort of conclusion I can come to is that there is a (rightful) distrust of technology. What I don't get is why all of it is thrown out the window. It could even be done in analog, at least some bookkeeping would be nice. Some of it might have to do with party discipline, or lack thereof. I really think it might have to do with being set in one's ways and being very willful about the need to adapt in the modern era.

Would anyone have any other ideas for how to organize in a different way? Just for brainstorming, I don't think a perfect method would be made here, it's nice to entertain some ideas though.