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Proposal Details

Proposal ID	1276
Proposal	Establish Basecamp for GPUS Committees and Staff, With Opt-In Option for Caucuses and State Parties
Presenter	Steering Committee of GPUS, YES Caucus, North Carolina Green Party, and Illinois Green Party
Floor Manager	Wissam Charafeddine
Phase	Closed - Adopted
Discussion	11-17-2025 - 12-08-2025
Voting	12-09-2025 - 12-15-2025
Presens Quorum	Two Thirds of Active Accredited States/Caucuses
Consens Quorum	Two Thirds of Yes and No Votes

Background

Over the past decades, the Green Party has adopted a patchwork of digital tools—often ad hoc, committee-by-committee, and state-by-state. As some of these platforms have aged, the result has been a fragmented digital environment spanning national bodies, committees, caucuses, and individual members. This fragmentation increases friction for collaboration, buries institutional knowledge across multiple logins and archives, and raises barriers to onboarding new volunteers.

Compounding this challenge, certain legacy systems are reaching end-of-life or losing active support. Notably, the Party’s Mailman listserv service is scheduled to shut down on January 1, 2026, which will further disrupt continuity and communications if no replacement is in place.

To spark a genuine organizational renaissance—recruiting new members, engaging volunteers, and elevating our collective capacity— we must consolidate our digital platforms and standardize the way we organize work. A unified, modern, and accessible platform will simplify onboarding, preserve institutional memory, and give every member— across generations and tech comfort levels— a clear, consistent place to participate and contribute.

A Taskforce was established combining members with expertise nominated by Steering Committee, in addition to representatives from the MIGP (sponsor for original initiative), YES Caucus, Media Committee, and Diversity Committee. The task force scrutinized over two dozen platforms and recommended the adoption of Google Groups as our replacement for Mailman Listserv. Under the justification of ensuring the continuation of official party business, the Steering Committee voted on October 26th to transfer all Committee business to Google Groups, to become the email list GPUS communication platform.

The task force recommended BaseCamp as a digital communication platform for GPUS committees, staff, and as an opt-in option for caucuses and state parties. The party’s scarcest asset is member time. Basecamp turns that time into traction—clear decisions, owned tasks, living documents, and steady onboarding, and although Basecamp can be used totally in lieu of any email communication, Google Groups will secure a secondary way for “broadcast email” needs.

For state parties and caucuses, the Steering Committee has always supported the party held value of decentralization, and non-GPUS led working groups have been rightfully given the autonomy to make decisions that best supports their group. As such, state groups and caucuses have adopted their own platforms that work best for their individual needs.

The existing GPUS voting system for NC votes will be retained.

Proposal

This proposal would:

1. Adopt Basecamp for GPUS staff, National Committee, Steering Committee, all GPUS Committees, and for project collaboration, recommend for caucuses and states, and allocate GPUS funds to establish a GP BaseCamp account with unlimited hubs for the cost of $3600/year.

2. Authorize the SC and members of the Taskforce to determine GP Basecamp Support Team focused on transition, training, and support till the end of 2026, where SC can consider establishing a new volunteer Basecamp support team.

Resources

Implementation: Info Sessions and Trainings have been scheduled by Taskforce volunteers. Transition will begin officially on January 5, 2026. GP members who want to be added to the GP space for testing and experimenting, will be added before then.

Timeline: ongoing

Resources: $3600 cost from GPUS general budget 2026

References

basecamp.com

Green Party Digital Platform Reform Taskforce Findings and Recommendation Report submitted to SC on October 21, 2025:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ihkkDgCbD8sPdHG_af4T7jgYXmtT1EwQVgUnyCvDypM/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.8ombfl2vbiu2

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