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# Ways To Participate

## Reading
- Spend some time with the collection!
- Start or join a reading group
- Lurk on Hackmd, Zulip, etc. :slightly_smiling_face:

## Contributing Materials
- Submitting publications
- Updating metadata
- Being interviewed

## Discussing
- Attend weekly meetings
- Send messages in chat
- Ask questions
- Propose ideas
- Share links

## Archiving
- Add publications to Omeka
- Track down missing metadata
- Fix incorrect metadata
- Come up with a taxonomy and new ways of navigating the archive

## Researching / Learning
- Search for missing publications
- Look into related histories

## Connecting / Communicating
- Contact groups whose publications are in the collection

## Writing/Editing
- Write blog posts
- Edit blog posts
- Send tweets
- Come up with a social media strategy
- Come up with an editorial calendar
- Solicit blog posts from writers
- Interview people

## Design
- Help design the site
- Brainstorm ideas for features

## Development
- Build features
- Contribute back to open source software
- Help build the site

## Care work
- Correspondence and coordination that supports our functions
- Discussing and modifying our organizational model and structure
- Project, task and schedule management
- Defining and clarifying responsibilities and roles
- Teambuilding, including working on familiarizing new people with our procedures
- Celebrating each other
- Resting

Start a document about what we can do for other groups, we’ve talked about ways of participating a little and we can aggregate. Abstract + concrete :slightly_smiling_face:) (think this is also helpful w/“impostor feeling” – clarifying and affirming our own collaborating capacities, and help others answer the question “what do we need” a little easier)

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Works Cited

https://wiki.guerrillamediacollective.org/index.php/What_is_Care_Work%3F

https://civiclaboratory.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/clear-lab-book.pdf