# Infrastructure Patterns for Volunteer Communities ---  --- ## volunteer groups are different - Nobody has to be here (_eo ipso_ : we're all volunteers!) - _Many_ people have _a little_ time - Decisions are rarely top-down --- ## so, supporting volunteers is different - work to systematize lore - distribute control wherever you can - turn your threat model inside out --- ## a shopping list of things almost everybody needs - collaborative document writing - meetings, chat, calendar (comms) - some kind of structured data management -- CRM, wiki, a large collection of spreadsheets... ---- ## auxiliary requirements - monitoring (and alerting) - email notifications (outgoing, maybe incoming) - identity and access management - secrets management --- ### let's put some of these on a VPC! https://github.com/itihas/box