= Evaluation of last years priorities = Last year's priorities are listed on our [https://mayfirst.org/en/priorities/ web page]. Our priorities for the year are broken into four major areas: 1. Education Our most prominent technology education initiative was the [https://defendourmovements.org/ Defend our Movements] web site, which provides detailed information on digital security practices uniquely framed for movement organizations. Launched in collaboration with the Center for Media Justice, Defend Our Movements gained a lot of media attention and we received a lot of positive feedback (as well as critical feedback which helped further improve the site). The proejct also included a help line which we staffed. Although it did not generate a lot of phone calls, it did provide unique opportunities to connect with activists struggling with security issues and learn more about our movement's needs. In addition, the Mexico office conducted several workshops on using the control panel and other aspects of May First/People Link's technology [please add more]. Despite the success of these projects, technology education, was our least successful priority. Our members made explicit requests around developing a technology training curriculum, inovlving our members in designing needs and training priorities, identifying barriers to people adopting technology, and targeting technology used by children and media makers. Ultimately, our staff and Leadership Committee were not able to put together the resources to make all of these aspects of this priority happen. 2. Increase members involvement Until this year, the only opportunities for member involvement in the organization have been the membership meeting, the leadership committee, occassional workshops and interaction via conferences and movement meetings. This year, for the first time, we implemented a new vehicle called "Need to Know." Organized monthly, Need to Know is a webinar series that brought together our membership with speakers on a wide range of topics relevant to technology and the movement. It provides a forum for members to get together in real time, ask questions of the speakers and learn more about May First/People Link. Topics this year included: Google, the Technology of Surveillance, and the Spectre/Meltdown crisis. In addition, in keeping with the priority of using alternative media to reach a bigger audience, we made the Need to Know available as a podcast, along with another podcast-only series called Points Taken. Points Taken is a series of interviews with movement organizers about their work and use of technology. 3. Strengthen Technology capacity of the organization We made signficant progress on this priority, but not exactly in the way defined in our membership meeting. In the membership meeting, we identified decentralization as an important theme. However, over the course of the year - and as we collaborated through a coalition with other alternative providers - we shifted our focus to shoring up our general infrastructure. As part of this program we developed an [https://support.mayfirst.org/wiki/infrastructure-2018 ambitious plan] for re-building our infrastructure in a way that is faster, more flexible and more efficient. We organized a member webinar on the topic and we've already made significant progress and expect to complete the project by mid 2019. Through this project, we did signficant research around new technologies related to containers and network filesystems. In addition, the Brooklyn office has joined the NY Mesh network, although we are still waiting to be properly connected. This innitiatve is building a network for connecting to the Internet that is independent of the major phone and cable companies that have a near monopoly. We are actively studying ways to support this innitiatve and others like it so we can build an independent net from your computer to our servers. 4. Organize