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Originally shared by Andrew Pam Decidim helps citizens, organizations and public institutions self-organize democratically at every scale. Via Sam McLeod at Infoxchange. https://decidim.org/

Originally shared by Lars Fosdal Life after Google+ Wordpress.com (Primary) https://larsfosdal.blog I am setting up camp at WordPress.com, and importing my old G+ content there. Whether this will be my permanent home, still remains to be seen. If you use WP and/or use a Gravatar, it should be easy to follow me there. I also have a firehose RSS stream :P Twitter (Tweeting from WP) https://twitter.com/LarsFosdal LinkedIn (For work related stuff) https://www.linkedin.com/in/larsfosdal/ Mastodon (Present, but not very active) https://mastodon.social/@LarsFosdal MeWe (Present, but not very active) https://mewe.com/i/larsfosdal PlusPora (Present, but not very active) https://pluspora.com/people/38b79450adbb013646c2005056268def GoNevis.com (Testing) https://larsfosdal.gonevis.com Openbook To be decided. #varde #ward #INUKSHUK #roadpost #NoticeOfLocation

Originally shared by Eric Buijs I know that a lot of owners of G+ communities are still looking for alternatives. I wrote a brief post about the FLOSS options that I came across, and in some cases experimented with, the last couple of months. http://homehack.nl/floss-tools-to-create-a-forum-or-community/

Shift ownership to Enterprise or Google for NonProfits? On behalf of my community (e-NABLE: a global network of volunteers free open-source 3D-printed prosthetics), I am exploring the following strategy: * Enroll my 501(c)3 non-profit in Google for NonProfits. (done) * Activate Google Plus for e-NABLE .org (done) * Establish jschull@e-NABLE.org as moderator of our existing consumer G+ community. (done) * Wait two weeks so I can transfer ownership of the existing community to jschull@e-NABLE.org) (waiting) * declare victory and survive the consumer G+ shutdown * keen an eye out for better alternatives This required some tedious administrative work with G+, GforNP, and G domains, but as far as I can tell, it seems like a viable strategy. I'd appreciate comments Note: my non-profit's mission is (in part) "to provide free open source 3D printed prosthetics for children and underserved populations through a network of volunteers." I am toying with the idea * of exp...