This article is for new members interested in joining the Tech Circle, one of the main circles of Activist Handbook. If you're looking for a different circle guide, you can find all of them here.

If you would like to take up a role at Activist Handbook, check out how to join.

About this circle #

Summary: Tech circle is in charge of smooth functioning of our website, choices of apps we use in our day-to-day communication, technical support for our users and development of the project Rebel Tools.

If you would like to contribute to the development of Rebel Tools, check out how to join our project.

We use open source code and our long term goal is to assemble a group of dedicated hacker-activists who will work on development of free and secure online apps for activists all over the world. We're constantly improving Activist Handbook's functionalities and working hard on training our members in web development.

Role definition: You can find the exact purpose, domain and accountabilities of this circle in Airtable.

As a volunteer for Activist Handbook, you should understand Holacracy and all of its components in order to be able to work with cross-circle cooperation.

Make sure to check out the Our Organisation page for more information about Holacracy.

Circle guides #

The following guides are relevant to all members in the Tech circle:

• 🎓 Web development for rebels
• 🔐 Security training
• Website

Role guides #

We have written a guide for each role within the Tech circle:

• ⭕️ Tech coordinator
• 🦋 Rebel Tools coordinator
• 🖐 Tech supporter
• 👩‍💻 Tech trainer
• 🎓 Tech student

You can find descriptions and vacancies for these roles on our airtable.

Tech stack #

• Google Domains: Domain & email forwarding (with custom name servers) to our Chatwoot account
• Cloudflare: DNS provider & DDoS protection
• DigitalOcean: Hosting of our website

Related articles #

• Digital tools

External resources #

• Technical support by Wikipedia
• Google Drive folder