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The Taskforce Wiki, bits of information that make our work easier.

Who are we?

We are the internet.taskforce.is. The taskforce is a volunteer rapid response team dedicated to creating a platform to defend the internet. In addition, we create bespoke campaigns to support our advocacy goals.

We work with groups like the EFF, Mozilla, Fight for the Future, Free Press, Access and other similar organizations to coordinate and help make our internet advocacy campaigns more effective.

visit us

• internet.taskforce.is
• @tfrce

Coordinating Channels

• IRC: Say hi on the ##rritf IRC channel on Freenode.
• Mailing list: Google Groups
• Collaborative documents: Internet Taskforce etherpad
• Wiki: Check and update the Wiki.
• **Status Meetings: view the agenda and minutes on the wiki

Teams

The Internet Taskforce is nominally divided into two teams.

Platform Team

The Platform team is responsible for developing a platform to help the people quickly build campaigns.

Campaign Team

This is a rapid response team of designers & web devs that can be launched within 24 hours in response to any issue.

Projects

Current Campaigns

1. StopWatching.Us Coalition
   • created the website to organize the rally in Washington, D.C.
2. 1984Day
   • created the website for the Restore the Forth rallies across the country
3. Defund the NSA
   • a calling campaign to get people to call their Representatives to support the Amash Amendment.

Platform Products

1. A self-hosted social counter server
   • receives live data from Facebook, Twitter, & Google+

Future Road Map

####The Proposed Activism Platform

• Legislator call tool
• Formageddon
• Tweet/Facebook Commitments
• Facebook App
• Activism meme-generator
• Editorial tool
  • helps volunteers write editorials for local newspapers, and aids them in getting them published
• Personal video tool
  • allows users to upload a quick video explaining why they care about a particular issue
• Volunteer tool
  • allows an organizer to create a list of roles and tasks, the number of people needed to fill each type of roll, and then recruit to fill those roles
• Mobile apps

Join us

We are looking for top notch developers and designers join our platform project to build the infrastructure to build our needs.

Help us create a platform to defend the internet by volunteering at taskforce.is

Contributions are also needed for ad-hoc internet advocacy campaigns that are spun up by our rapid response campaign teams.

Check CONTRIBUTING.md for additional information.