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== Target Audience ==

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=== Profile ===

You are in the right place if you are a ''technician'' working as IT staff or as a volunteer at a movement-aligned organizations, where you are tasked with:

* identification,
* evaluation,
* configuration,
* customization and
* ongoing maintenance and support of software and hardware that supports your group’s mission.

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=== Proficiency Assumptions ===

You should be at least at ‘power user’ level, comfortable with:

* config files
* command line directives
* IT operations basics
** Web, Internet, and cloud concepts
** basic security

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=== Unique Challenges ===

You likely need to deal with constraints that technicians in corporate, government and military settings don’t worry much about:

* shoe-string budgets,
* deplatforming risks, and
* ethical considerations

See [[New Submissions]] for further discussion of how these criteria factor into our structured protocol for recommending new products and services.

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