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Update: Share files in Terraso with your community (and beyond) 

By Derek Caelin

We just updated Terraso to make sharing information with your community and networks easier. Now you can share your files with anyone, even if they don’t have a Terraso account. 

To get started, simply go to your group or landscape in Terraso, find a file, and select theicon to share the link. 

a popover in a landscape or group. The user can set the privacy settings for a file (members only, or anyone with the link) and copy a link to share.

We built this feature with our collaborators at LandScale, an organization dedicated to growing landscape success by validating impact claims. People going through the LandScale process told us they wanted better tools to share files and information—with each other, with LandScale, and with the investors and stakeholders who need to view their validation claims. 

This aligns with the consistent feedback from Terraso users who have expressed a desire to do more with their files while maintaining essential control over access. To address this, we’ve enhanced Terraso to streamline file sharing, enabling your team to easily access and utilize them for analysis. Additionally, you can adjust the access permissions of files to make them available to everyone, just your group members, or specific landscape members. These permissions can be modified at any time, ensuring you retain control over who can access your community’s data. 

Thanks to everyone who helped us design and build this feature. We will continue to improve Terraso with the guidance and feedback of our users and partners. 

Author

  • Derek Caelin is the Product Manager for Terraso at Tech Matters. Derek is a technologist who has spent years training activists and civil society organizations in developing countries and conflict zones on how to use digital tools to communicate, mobilize, and organize. Derek is particularly focused on creating, researching, and sharing open source technology so that all people can benefit from free, collectively produced software. His writings on community-maintained software, games for social impact, privacy, and the effect of tech platforms on society, have been published in Foreign Policy and OneZero. Connect with him on Mastodon

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