After a first quarter hunting for contributors, making the project attractive on Github and speaking with many XR coordinators around the world, we have to admit that it is not going as fast as required. Most of us are busy and trying to get out of the neoliberal world we are cogs of. It takes our time and our energy. We needed to find a way to get stronger, faster.

The project is now entering a new stage. Current features will be merged into a fork of the OpenCollective platform, called OpenCollective Community (https://opencollective.org, but nothing fancy yet on this page). Our first goal is to make sure that everything possible on the Rebels Manager is possible on OpenCollective Community, and make it possible to install the platform on a server.

Then we will turn it into the platform for sustainable communities. Not just for Extinction Rebellion but also for other movements (eg. Fridays for Future) and for any kind of community (eg. Transition Towns). The platform will allow communities to manage members, expenses/budget, email campaigns, events registrations, a public website, fundraising campaigns, etc.

We will do this all together, as ALL TECHIES have to rebel now before it's too late. In the coming months, we will organize to make sure that developers can join the project and team up with designers, documentation writers, financial contributors and so on to work on meaningful features.

Each community will have access by default to features like: members directory, subcollectives (local groups, affinity groups, etc), conversations, expenses management, email campaigns, events and todos.

Each citizen will have a Community profile where anyone can see which communities this citizen is part of, what are her/his skills and what this member is currently doing for the communities (= todos). Forget about LinkedIn, stuff you do for the real world will be on your Community profile.

Then groups of developers and designers will be created, funded and coached to make new features happen: CMS for publishing a website, surveys, file drops, inventory management, press releases, SMS, collaborative notes, wikis, decision-making tools, etc. Anything the communities need to ACT right here, right now.

We have 2 videos we want to share with you. These ones make us feel confident that we are on the path to the system change we all aim for.

• Coalition of the Willing, published in 2011. This is exactly where we are going.
• Audrey Tang, TEDx Talk (2019). Audrey Tang is the Digital Minister of Taiwan. She is using AI and technology the right way to promote social innovation and empower democracy. Food for thoughts!

I hope that you'll be able to join us, as developers, funders or by making great use of your awesome skills.

Love and rage.