Discussion Prompts

Discussion prompts

Discussions should produce decisions, not extract personal stories. Never post real names, dates of birth, ZIP codes, recovery material, exact locations, health details, or protected provider data.

1. What is the smallest governed pilot that would reduce friction?
2. What typography, language, and replacement process make a recovery card usable?
3. Which fields belong public, private, or nowhere?
4. How can mutual aid be moderated without harassment or voyeurism?
5. What context makes provider response visibility fair and useful?
6. What must work on borrowed phones, kiosks, paper, and screen readers?
7. Which HMIS/victim-service data must never cross the boundary?

Close each thread with the decision, owner, review date, unresolved risks, and a link to the resulting change. Keep participation voluntary and accessible.

Sections and formats

GitHub categories are flat, so we organize them into three visible sections:

Welcome & orientation

• Announcements — Announcement format: official project updates, decisions, releases, and review dates.
• Q&A — Question/Answer format: questions about the prototype, limits, handbook, and participation.

Design & governance

• Pilot Design — Open-ended discussion: the smallest safe pilot, success measures, and stop conditions.
• Safety & Privacy — Open-ended discussion: boundaries, moderation, recovery, threats, and harm prevention.
• Provider & Government Practice — Open-ended discussion: provider workflows, accountability, HMIS, and coordination.

Community experience

• Community Experience — Open-ended discussion: accessibility, dignity, field use, paper, and lived experience.
• Ideas & Improvements — Open-ended discussion: proposals with benefits, harms, data, owner, and stop rule.
• Community Polls — Poll format: limited, non-sensitive preferences after context is provided.

Do not use polls for identity, trauma, eligibility, a person’s case, or a safety decision. Polls measure a preference; they do not replace consent, accessibility testing, lived-experience review, or governance.