We need your help: finding a new platform (or funding) for WildHub Socials 🌱
Dear community,
As some of you know, our WildHub Socials have been hosted in Gather, a wonderful space originally created by @Lucy Tallents at VerdantLearn. These socials are a place for us to connect, network, and recharge as a community.
However, Gather has recently moved to a paid model (I found out only today when trying to access it), and we now need to explore options for hosting our socials going forward — whether that’s finding a new platform (or funding) to continue using Gather. Next week’s social is scheduled for Wednesday 24th September, so this is an urgent request.
👉 We’d love your help!
Do you know of free platforms that would allow us to host interactive community socials?
Have you seen creative solutions for continuing to use Gather without incurring the full cost?
Here are Gather’s current costs for up to 10 concurrent users:
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Subscription (always open space): $150/month (or $120/month if paid annually).
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One-time reservation (per event, 1–5 days): $30 per day — which works out to about $3 per person per Social if we have 10 participants.
📌 Full details: Gather 1.0 Pricing Overview
We’ll also be hosting next week’s Social (co-hosted with @Fleur Morton and @Fairuse Akter), so your suggestions could directly shape how and where we meet!
Please share your advice and experiences in the comments below — your input will be invaluable in helping us find the best solution together.
My background is mainly in species conservation, education and capacity exchange. I researched mother-young interactions in gorillas and chimpanzees, in captivity and the wild. After that, I worked for three years in Indonesia, where I developed and implemented youth ambassador and community engagement programmes on local and regional scales. I co-founded WildHub, a community of nature conservation professionals, in 2020 and work as their Community Lead. I am furthermore on the Advisory Board of the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) at the University of Kent where I obtained my PhD on capacity development for conservation in 2022.
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From what I have seen on an initial look, there is a platform similar to gather called Work Adventure offering a space for free for up to 15 participants, it looks fairly good if this number limit is alright, here is the link: https://workadventu.re/
Has anyone used this site before at all? Let me know what you think!
Thanks for that suggestion Fleur! Let's look into that beyond this week's social. Would indeed be great to hear if anyone has used this site before.
What features do you need? Would something like Google Meet work? Or do you want everyone to be able to have side conversations? (Sorry I haven’t attended a social before)
Hi Hannah, thanks for your questions. Yes, ideally, it would give us the ability to have side conversations too. Thanks for thinking with us! Perhaps that we'll use Google meet as an interim solution for now.