What is the Hub?
The Hub belongs solely to XRUK and is designed and maintained by our XRUK Digital teams. The Hub is used for a number of different things however it's main purpose is to store our UK group information:
- which groups exist
- the group members
- role-holders
- group mandate / scope / group agreement
- group and member's contact details
- policies
- domains
The Hub helps maintain transparency by showing our Self-Organising System [SOS] - how our groups / teams / circles interact with each other, and who's in a role and gives us their peferred method of contact. This is extremely useful because it makes it really easy to find the right people to talk to. The Hub also keeps track of the structure of XRUK groups - see My Groups.
We also use the Hub to connect many of our other tools and programs (e.g. Mattermost and UK Cloud) that rebels use to organise online.
Watch this video for a general introduction to the Hub and its benefits and also view a PDF version with clickable links of the slide presentation used in the video.
How do I join the Hub?
You can request a Hub invite to your group from your Hub Group Admin. If you don't know who this is, please email tech@rebellion.earth - let them know the name of your group and another person in your group who can vouch for you.
Why do we need it?
The Hub does some really important things:
- It creates accounts for rebels on all of XRUK's connected tools so you can sign in with the same username and password on the Hub, Mattermost, UK Cloud, UK Forums, Rebel Toolkit, Rebellion Academy and our Customer Relationship Managment [CRM] platforms.
- It automatically adds rebels to all the chat channels, Cloud folders and forums for all of the XR groups they are a member of.
- It can temporarily suspend the accounts of rebels who are arrested so the authorities cannot get access to our platforms even if they take the rebel's phone or computer.
Futher info on how to join and use the Hub and Mattermost here.