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In this experience report, I describe the process that allowed a coalition of interests to come together during the opening months of the global COVID-19 pandemic to provide economic relief for local businesses across the region that had been shuttered by lockdown orders;in particular, this report focuses on the kinds of advocacy necessary at various levels of the coalition: Advocacy for developers and designers, for business owners, and for students. After narrating the genesis of the project and outlining its scope, I discuss problems related to client-based learning projects in web design, explain how the project structure sought to address and overcome these problems, and then present the results: i.e., what actually happened when we tried it and how it all ended up. Finally, the report discusses how this project has changed over time and concludes by reflecting on the nature of community coalitions. © 2021 ACM.
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In our inaugural editorial, we, the incoming Editorial Collective (EC) of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS), describe the digital and social infrastructural work that we have undertaken since assuming editorship of the journal. We also note some of the changes we have introduced in terms of the journal's content and policies. A key argument is that even though publishing infrastructures shape the form and movement of scholarly content in crucial ways, they often remain black-boxed, rendering invisible the time, labor, and skill in developing and sustaining them.