Resolution on the Discontinuance of the Use of Slack by the Wyoming Democratic Party for Communicating with County Parties.
Whereas the Wyoming Democratic Party (WDP) consists of volunteers across a large geographic area;
Whereas those volunteers represent the entire range of skills related to computers and information technology;
Whereas WDP staff spends an outsized amount of time on educating, training, selling and pushing the use of technology tools;
Whereas WDP desires to “meet people where they are”;
Whereas WDP desires to retain communications and a knowledge base for and by all those in the conversations for reflecting and planning;
Whereas several County Parties are already managing their own communications systems;
Whereas County Parties require simplification of communications tools;
Whereas the onboarding new volunteers needs to be streamlined;
Whereas the number of complaints about certain communications tools far exceed the celebrations; and
Whereas the number of logins and accounts required to participate in WDP communications is burdensome; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, that the Johnson County Democratic Party:
- urges WDP to discontinue the use of Slack as a means of communication between the WDP and County Parties;
- urges the WDP, should it find it needs an asynchronous chat tool, to replace Slack with one of the other services also already in use, such as Zoom, Google or email or with one that does not require the creation of an account, such as Signal or WhatsApp.
- urges County Party Executive Committees to communicate at least monthly with all other County Party Executive Committees and to do so outside of non-federated proprietary tools and systems (e.g. Facebook, X, TikTok).
Passed unanimously Sept 3, 2024 JC Dems CCC meeting.
Mover: Lois, Precinct 03-01
Seconder: Suzi, Precinct 03-02
Johnson County Democratic Party Meeting Agenda