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OK, so either option, we probably need something like this:
Directors: somewhere between 3 - 10 directors of the CIC/not-for-profit/Ltd company or whatever we decide to take over administrative decisions for the site
Supporters: At least 250 people willing to donate £10 every 3 months to ensure the sites financial security
Admins/moderators: 5 - 10 power users who can keep the site clean and troll free
Legal compliance: People to help with policies/toolkit if we need to comply with the OSA
Tech: Team of x number of devs to keep the site running. Offer from @duncs to build a new React frontend, @cyclotron3k make the site easily deployable and just generally make the maintenance easier for everyone.
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Happy to donate whats mentioned above, or more if needed
Spend a lot of time on here so i could be a admin/mod (got loads of spare time with my current job)
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I think before you can even strategise on what is needed there need to be multiple people working through the Ofcom guidance as well as the legislation. That is unfortunately going to be hundreds of pages. The interpretation as applied to LFGSS needs to be documented somewhere. Possibly there then needs to be some actual legal advice.
It seems like it would be very easy to put together a moderation team as there are plenty of highly-engaged, somewhat-responsible users. I would suggest way more than 10 though, as we probably need round-the-clock cover. With 10 mods, if the only US moderator is on holiday and a troll shows up at 3 AM, no one's going to catch it.
A one-off crunch effort on the tech side to build things like a report function, checking content, etc. is probably easily achievable too, with a smaller amount of ongoing maintenance effort
Edit: the guidance does say that a single named person needs to be accountable for online safety as well. So someone has to take that burden.
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Good work.
We will also need named people for Co Sec duties and Finance for this org.
Jakub96
frankenbike
skydancer
Out of the jurisdiction of the OSA doesn't really mean anything if UK people continue to access the forum because it's designed with extraterritoriality in mind, although in practice risk of enforcement is probably lower. Ultimately someone has to be responsible for running the thing and it's not going to be Velocio (even if servers get moved overseas). So someone still has to step up to actually keep the place running, then we can discuss implications of moving operations overseas.