IT Circle is looking for people who can join our circle and help us maintain our website platform and other IT systems! We are looking for people who have a solid general knowledge of computing platforms and networks, and who like to tinker and learn. Here are some skills that indicate that you might be a good fit for this role:
- Understanding of the elements of a website platform stack (bonus points if you have worked with WordPress administration before or if you have helped configure a CRM)
- Comfort interacting with Linux systems, particularly on the command line
- Basic programming skills, particularly scripting for automating repetitive tasks and workflows
- Understanding some of the tensions around the performance, user experience, accessibility, resilience, and security of IT systems
IT Circle is part of the SoFA Network, where we share in the mission to empower people worldwide to practice collaborative governance through sociocracy. Within SoFAN the aim of IT Circle directly contributes to the communication needs of that worldwide community served by a worldwide organization. In additional to your technical skills and affinities, we are seeking people to join us who are excited about sharing sociocracy with the world and who either already have some experience with sociocracy or who are willing to learn sociocracy.
In addition to this, as a circle we recognize that every technology decision that we make has political implications. We want to use those decisions to help empower people and shift our culture away from oppression and towards harmony and resilience. One immediate consequence of this is that we prioritize free and open-source technologies, or technologies maintained by organizations with similar values, when they meet our needs sufficiently well.
We are a small organization, so while we can offer some compensation (of about 17–20 USD/hour), this is obviously less than in the broader capitalist market and it is only for limited hours, which makes a portion of this work a gift to our community and our world.
Given all this, would you be interested in helping us with maintaining our website platform and other IT systems? If you want to discuss this with us, please send @IT-Circle a message here or with an email at <it.circle@sociocracyforall.org>.