Organisational Structure of XR
A page for each Working Group (that wants it), explaining what they do.
Introduction to XR Structure
Extinction Rebellion UK is organised as a set of Working Groups. Many of these cover the whole of the UK, and there are some that just cover nations and regions. There are also Local Groups.
The groups are organised using a Self-Organising System (SOS), which defines their relationships and how they are run. For more on SOS, see Self-Organising System on the UK web site and the Building Teams book.
For a list of all the groups and their mandates, look on the Hub. This also shows the relationships between the groups.
The groups are also sometimes called circles.
There is also a public list of all the groups and their mandates on the Organism Diagram. This supersedes GlassFrog which similarly shows the groups, their mandates and their relationships, but is out of date.
This book is a place where any group can create a page with a description of what they do, how to work with them and how to contact them.
If you are planning a page for your group, remember that the Rebel Toolkit is visible to the Internet, so be careful what you include, eg no personal email addresses or Zoom passwords, or links to documents containing such things.
The Rebel Toolkit is intended as a place that ordinary rebels can contribute to, which is relatively easy to update. The main Extinction Rebellion UK web site already contains a lot of more formal information about Working Groups and their work -- a good place to start is https://extinctionrebellion.uk/act-now/resources/.
Digital Team - Contact and Guidance
Do you have a project in mind which has a digital side to it? You are in the right place. This is a page about how and why to get in touch with the Digital Team.
1. Digital Team Intro
We would like to hear about your Digital projects or concerns, and see how we can work together to make them better. Click here for the link to our mandate (it's short and sweet)
2. The Digital Circle holds quite a few spaces. Here are a few of the main ones:
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XR UK Website
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XR’s Communication Hub (The Hub) / XR UK Cloud / XR UK Forums / Mattermost (via XRGlobal)
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Local and specialist group newsletter lists (Action Network)
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Password Vault
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XR UK Volunteer Website
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Rebellion Academy
3. How to get in touch
Three ways:
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Fill in this short form This is possibly the easiest and best way to get in touch initially. We'll get back to you.
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Go to our Mattermost Tech Reception channel (You'll need a Hub account to access the Mattermost Receptions channels. If you don't have a Hub account please read this Hub Starter Page useful)
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You can send us an email directly via tech@rebellion.earth
WordPress theme:
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UK Website Team are able to provide a WordPress theme that can enable a local group to create an XR branded website quickly. You will need a developer with some experience of WordPress.
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Please make yourself known on Mattermost Tech Reception channel and we will assist you in thinking about that.
4. What Digital Does
Success Stories:
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The Website - It enables a lot of groups to function within that space - one entry point, curated space, multiple responsibilities.
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Action Network - The mass email system we use to communicate with the movement and collect information. We manage this system on behalf of XR.
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Evolving more planning about personal information (Data Planning and GDPR) we hold with as much respect as we give each other in person
5. Good reasons why the Digital Team shoud be included.
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A shiny new website - but without the resources to maintain it long term - how does it stay secure?
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A new web address - but in 1 year's time will someone remember to renew the domain name?
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Data gathering but without proper consent - will that get us a complaint when the data is used?
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A new tool or service - does it run on renewable energy? Can people log in easily using their Hub login? Is someone else already doing something similar?
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Content (We'll make sure your content is safe and available, and you can put new content up.)
What Digital doesn’t handle:
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Finding the budget for new tools (But we can advise - if we think there it's a general XR need we could take it onboard and make it a wider project)
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Digital Actions. (The Actions Circle oversees these, though we can all get involved!)
See Also
The Digital Discussions Applications Team (DDAT) are part of the Digital team with responsibility for the Hub and a number of other systems. There is more information on the What do DDAT do? page.
Integrated Budget Group
See the book Integrated Budget Group which explains how budgets, money and funding are organised in XR.
It is not the intention to encourage every working group to have its own book on the Rebel Toolkit, as that would be too unwieldy. But now that the Integrated Budget Group has its own book, we have made this page in order to help people to find it.