Online Tools for Communicating with Other Rebels
This book describes the tools you can use to communicate and collaborate with other rebels. In particular it focuses on Mattermost, UK Forums and UK Cloud, as well as the Hub that links them all together.
If there is any information missing from these pages please either contact the Digital Discussions Application Team on Mattermost or email tech@rebellion.earth.
READ THIS FIRST
This document is a quick guide to get you started using XR's online communication tools for the f...
User Guides
Online Behaviour Guide
Remember XR's Regenerative Culture This includes a healthy focus on mutually supporting categori...
Mattermost
Read this document to get familiar with Mattermost. It is used to communicate with XR groups as w...
Using UK Forum
What are UK Forums? UK Forums do slightly different things than MatterMost - here's a summary: ...
Using UK Cloud
What is UK Cloud? UK Cloud is a place for rebels to create, store, and share documents securely ...
Using the Hub
How do I access the Hub? The Hub can be found by typing this address into a browser address bar ...
Accessing the Tools Using a Smartphone or Tablet
All the tools are accessible this way, but may look a bit different. This guide is for those not ...
Compromised Account Procedure
All rebels with an account on the UK Hub, UK Forum, Global Mattermost and UK Cloud which gives th...
Problems Getting on the Hub
There are 5 potential problems. Already have an XR Global Mattermost account? Most users will n...
Group Admin Guides
All the information to manage your Group should be here but if you can't work out how to do somet...
Inviting People to your Group
How to invite people to your group Please watch this video on how to send out Hub invites to ...
XR Groups, Roles and Mandates
XR Groups screen If you click 'My XR Groups' on the Home page, you will see a screen like this...
Add and Edit Groups, Channels & Forums
Groups Edit Group screen This lets you rename your group, or any of its teams, channels, forum ...
Behaviour and Good Practice
Encouraging Good Behaviour and Practices for Group Admins (WIP) General responsibilities of Grou...
Setting up a new group on the Hub
This document takes you through the process of creating a new group on the Hub. See also How ...
How to set up a Telegram-Mattermost link
We have a Matterbridge service, which enables you to link a Telegram channel or group to a Matter...
Deactivating or reactivating someone's account
Explains how to deactivate an account if someone is arrested or loses their phone or other device...
Placeholder Hub Groups
Placeholder Groups represent groups who do not use the Hub, so they appear in the Hub Circles dia...
Hub Admin Guides
Extra Information
Library (UK Cloud)
What is it? The Library is a shared read-only area for all Rebels on UK Cloud. You can view and ...
Privacy and Security
How private is your data on the XR communication services? Data on our new services is held in a...
A Note on Usernames, Passwords, and Profiles
Comments (Henry) Think this belong in GDPR/Privacy bit, but also needs updating This documen...
Our Vision of a Connected XR
How are you communicating with people in your working group? Are you using WhatsApp? Or Telegr...
When to use the Forums instead of Mattermost
What is the difference between chat and discussion? Chat (Mattermost) and discussion (Forums) ar...
Mattermost Moderation
What is Moderation, why do we need it and who does it? These questions arise with any open chat s...
Drafts
The Vault
Note: This document is a draft because a policy for adding new people to the Vault remains to be ...
Add and Edit Groups, Channels & Forums (draft)
Groups Edit Group screen This lets you rename your group, or any of its teams, channels, forum ...
Accessing the Tools using a Smartphone or Tablet v2
Introduction Lots of rebels do not have access to a computer and instead rely on a smartphone or...
Archive
This is where we store the old docs so they won't get mixed up with the new ones.
General Culture and Expectations
Comments (Henry) Maybe we should put a link to this at the bottom of the Comms Hub book? Or ma...
OLD: Using the UK Forums
Forum or MatterMost? The reason we have the Forums are because they do slightly different things...
OLD: The Hub for Group Admins (formerly Tech Champions)
Covers Group Admin tasks on the Hub - sending invites to people, editing your group info, adding ...
OLD: Using the Hub Admin Interface
Introduction The Hub's purpose is: To invite people to the new services, and set up the user'...
OLD: Compromised Account Procedure
All rebels with an account on the UK Hub, UK Forum, Global Mattermost and UK Cloud which gives th...
Why it's better to use the Hub
The UK Hub is our tool for organising our communications. Some people are just using Mattermost f...
Mattermost for tech champions
Mattermost is our chat platform, and is very similar to Slack, for those who have used it. It re...
UK Forums for Tech Champions
How UK Forums is organised Our UK Forums are on a platform called Discourse. This is extremely ...
UK Cloud for Tech Champions
Logging in, and the files display This is the login screen -- when you received an invite to t...
Setting up a new working group on the new services
What are the new services Mattermost - chat room service, similar to slack UK Forums - forum...
How to Organise on the New Communication Services
If you are a Circle, major Working Group, Regional Group, Affinity Group or Local Group, you will...
Videos to help with getting your local group onto the Comms Hub
Some video content to share with your local groups to help get them on board with the new system...
The Hub Home Page
When you log in to the Hub you will go to the Home Page by default. Only the icons that are rele...