Welcome to These Green Mountains. Our immediate purpose is to disseminate information about Hurricane Irene aftermath, clean-up, and restoration efforts.
Video from August 28th, 2011
As time goes on, our focus will widen to encompass the politics, people, and places of Vermont: history, culture, food, forests... anything goes as long as it's Vermont related. While we will focus on the region within Vermont state lines, we will also include information about contiguous areas, since some people work or live on either side of state and national borders.
Daily Kos Frequently Asked Questions - Information About Groups:
For a very basic introduction to groups, please read the DKos FAQ.
Following:
To keep informed of new additions to These Green Mountains' stream, please follow the group by clicking on the wee heart underneath the group icon on the profile page. This way, you won't miss any posts added to our stream.
Group Structure:
These Green Mountains is intended to be a group collaboration. Top-down hierarchies don't agree with me, and I suspect, not many residents of Vermont. radical simplicity collaborated to create the group, and kestrel9000 came on board as a co-administrator. If you would like to join the group as a contributor, or become an editor, please write one of us.
Intra-group Communication:
Please read your Kosmail (Daily Kos internal email) as often as possible for messages from These Green Mountains group members.
Joining, Suggestions, Questions, Etc...:
If you have any suggestions, questions, or would like to join the group, please leave a comment below.
Membership:
If you have a strong interest in Vermont, then please join us.
Korean War Army veteran Ted Wood, 68, an Abenaki Indian, stands in front of a group of veterans he led during grand entry ceremonies at the National Native American Veterans Powwow in Upper Marlboro, Md. Photo: Rudi Williams
More DKos Information On How Groups Work:
This is not a complete list of links to posts written about how groups work on DKos, and how to get the most out of your group experience, but hopefully it will be a good start.
A Really Useful Group Tool You're Probably Not Using
Reprise: On Being a Group Editor
On Bafflements Suffered by Founders & Admins: DK4 Communication
Meta Groupies: Establishing best practices for groups
On Bafflements Suffered by Founders & Admins: Whither the Contributor?
elfling's post of April 15th.
Related posts for groups.
Privacy:
Please respect the privacy of group members. I know that this should go without saying, but don't give out any personal information of any group members unless you have their express permission.
Writing For the Group:
Please allow at least a two hour window around any other post in the queue or recently published post when scheduling yours. This hopefully will prevent important information from being overlooked, and will assure that each post directly for our group gets attention.
Please publish your post during a time when you're available to monitor it by answering questions and responding to comments. If you don't have time, and the information in your post is time sensitive (eg: dates and locations for volunteers helping with clean-up), please ask another member of These Green Mountains to substitute for you. At the very least, if there is no one available to monitor your post, and it is important, time sensitive material, then please go ahead and post.
The marker at the summit of Camel's Rump Camel's Hump.
Photograph of the marker at the summit of Camel's Hump mountain in Vermont. Taken by Sourav Dey and released with his permission for use on wikipedia with copyright retained.