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
Mattermost
Read this document to get familiar with Mattermost. It is used to communicate with XR groups as w...
UK Forums
What are UK Forums? UK Forums do slightly different things than MatterMost - here's a summary: ...
UK Cloud
What is UK Cloud? UK Cloud is a place for rebels to create, store, and share documents securely ...
The Hub
What is the Hub? The Hub is the tool XR UK uses to connect lots of the programs (e.g. Mattermost...
The Vault
The Vault is a password manager hosted by XR. It is a place for rebels to securely store the pas...
Accessing the Tools Using a Smartphone or Tablet
Lots of rebels do not have access to a computer and instead rely on a smartphone or tablet to do ...
Compromised Account Procedure
All rebels with an account on the UK Hub, UK Forum, Global Mattermost and UK Cloud which gives th...
Online Behaviour Guide
Remember XR's Regenerative Culture This includes a healthy focus on mutually supporting categori...
Problems Getting on the Hub
Listed below are several of the most common problems people have when they sign up to the Hub. If...
Group Admin Guides
All the information to manage your Group should be here but if you can't work out how to do somet...
The XR Volunteer Agreement
How to sign the Volunteer Agreement, and to check other people who have access to personal data h...
Inviting People to your Group
How to invite people to your group To get to the Hub, type - auth.extinctionrebellion.org.uk - ...
Add and Edit Groups, Channels & Forums
Groups Edit Group screen This lets you rename your group, or any of its teams, channels, forum ...
XR Groups, Roles and Mandates
Read this guide to learn how to use the Hub to manage your group's mandates, roles, members, etc....
Behaviour and Good Practice
General responsibilities of Group Admins Group Admins have a responsibility to make sure that ...
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
Why we have the Hub
How are you communicating with people in your working group? Are you using WhatsApp? Or Telegr...
Privacy and Security
How private is your data on the XR communication services? Data on our new services is held in a...
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...
Meeting Links - back up advice ...
Find Meeting Links when Mattermost is down Usually, you will find useful information, like zoom ...
Library (UK Cloud)
What is it? The Library is a shared read-only area for all Rebels on UK Cloud. You can view and ...
Data Planning Impact Assesments
Data planning for Personal Data in XRUK What is this document for? For training and awareness...
Drafts
A place to put draft pages for this book.
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...
Add and Edit Groups, Channels & Forums
Groups Edit Group screen This lets you rename your group, or any of its teams, channels, forum ...