Cautionary Tales - Revision history

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Protected "Cautionary Tales": freezing due to move to coming public intergalactic wiki [edit=sysop:move=sysop]

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Free Geek Neverland

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2009-04-25T15:51:46Z

Free Geek Neverland

MetraBot: Robot: Changing Category:Startups

2009-04-25T01:01:26Z

Robot: Changing Category:Startups

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2008-12-26T22:51:26Z

Free Geek Neverland

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Free Geek Bree or was it Bree Free Geek?

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Rfs: New page: These are fictitious stories based on real life scenarios with names changed to protect the innocent, guilty, naive, and unlucky. These stories are about Free Geeks gone bad, and they're ...

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New page: These are fictitious stories based on real life scenarios with names changed to protect the innocent, guilty, naive, and unlucky. These stories are about Free Geeks gone bad, and they're ...

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These are fictitious stories based on real life scenarios with names changed to protect the innocent, guilty, naive, and unlucky.

These stories are about Free Geeks gone bad, and they're here to make a point. Details have been simplified to add clarity.

These are short pithy tales based on real experience and reasonable worries of folks that have been there and done that. Please feel free to add as necessary.

== Free Geek Emerald City ==

where they let one guy do all the work cause he had all the time even though he acted like a jerk to everyone

== Free Geek Narnia or was it Narnia Free Geek? ==

where infighting caused a split

== Free Geek Neverland ==

where they got so off task that the dragged the whole organization down and cost zillions of dollars and layoffs and whatnot

[[Category: Startups]]

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	These are fictitious stories about Free Geeks gone bad. They are based on real life scenarios with names changed to protect the innocent, guilty, naive, and unlucky.		These are fictitious stories about Free Geeks gone bad. They are based on real life scenarios with names changed to protect the innocent, guilty, naive, and unlucky.

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 Free Geek Neverland (FGN) was large, successful and busy. They were, however, usually short on cash. When Tiger Lilly Associates offered them an expansion grant, they jumped for joy. There was a catch, however. Tiger Lilly wanted FGN to start a consulting program where they could develop software for other struggling nonprofits. FGN saw no problem with this, since it seemed to dovetail well with their mission. Suddenly lots of interested consultants started showing up, hoping for some work. Now FGN was in the project management business.
-The consultants got busy and soon they landed their first big job. This posed a problem for the consultants. If they had volunteers do their computer building work, they didn't feel they could count guarantee the reliability of the final product, and it never seemed to happen on a reasonable schedule.
+The consultants got busy and soon they landed their first big job. This posed a problem for the consultants. If they had volunteers do their computer building work, they didn't feel they could guarantee the reliability of the final product, and it never seemed to happen on a reasonable schedule.
 So the consultants began building computers in their own space and the volunteers kept on working in theirs. Neither group really knew what the other was doing.
-When the big job started to go south, however, FGV found it hard to pay the consultants, and they started to leave the project. This left the staff stretched, trying to manage a faltering project and all the volunteers. Attempts to integrate the two computer building operations failed. Eventually the commitment to the consulting project overwhelmed the organization and nearly killed it off. The only thing that saved them was severe cutbacks in salaries and programs. Several people were even laid off.
+When the big job started to go south, however, FGN found it hard to pay the consultants, and they started to leave the project. This left the staff stretched, trying to manage a faltering project and all the volunteers. Attempts to integrate the two computer building operations failed. Eventually the commitment to the consulting project overwhelmed the organization and nearly killed it off. Everyone on the board burned out over this fiasco and they all resigned. The only thing that saved the organization financially was severe cutbacks in salaries and programs. Several people were even laid off.
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	When the big job started to go south, however, FGV found it hard to pay the consultants, and they started to leave the project. This left the staff stretched, trying to manage a faltering project and all the volunteers. Attempts to integrate the two computer building operations failed. Eventually the commitment to the consulting project overwhelmed the organization and nearly killed it off. The only thing that saved them was severe cutbacks in salaries and programs. Several people were even laid off.		When the big job started to go south, however, FGV found it hard to pay the consultants, and they started to leave the project. This left the staff stretched, trying to manage a faltering project and all the volunteers. Attempts to integrate the two computer building operations failed. Eventually the commitment to the consulting project overwhelmed the organization and nearly killed it off. The only thing that saved them was severe cutbacks in salaries and programs. Several people were even laid off.

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 So the consultants began building computers in their own space and the volunteers kept on working in theirs. Neither group really knew what the other was doing.
 When the big job started to go south, however, FGV found it hard to pay the consultants, and they started to leave the project. This left the staff stretched, trying to manage a faltering project and all the volunteers. Attempts to integrate the two computer building operations failed. Eventually the commitment to the consulting project overwhelmed the organization and nearly killed it off. The only thing that saved them was severe cutbacks in salaries and programs. Several people were even laid off.
+[[Category:Free Geek Intergalactic]]

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 == Free Geek Bree or was it Bree Free Geek? ==
-where infighting caused a split
+Barliman started a Free Geek in the quaint village Bree after visiting the mothership. He didn't know much about how to start an organization but really like the idea. He recruited a few volunteers to help him get started and things went well for a while. They even got a location in an attic space and were receiving donations and rebuilding computers, but when his term at the university was up, he moved on and decided to leave the organization in the capable hands of his new recruits.
 == Free Geek Neverland ==

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 == Free Geek Neverland ==
-where they got so off task that the dragged the whole organization down and cost zillions of dollars and layoffs and whatnot
+Free Geek Neverland (FGN) was large, successful and busy. They were, however, usually short on cash. When Tiger Lilly Associates offered them an expansion grant, they jumped for joy. There was a catch, however. Tiger Lilly wanted FGN to start a consulting program where they could develop software for other struggling nonprofits. FGN saw no problem with this, since it seemed to dovetail well with their mission. Suddenly lots of interested consultants started showing up, hoping for some work. Now FGN was in the project management business.
 [[Category: Startups]]

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-These are fictitious stories based on real life scenarios with names changed to protect the innocent, guilty, naive, and unlucky.
+These are fictitious stories about Free Geeks gone bad. They are based on real life scenarios with names changed to protect the innocent, guilty, naive, and unlucky.
-These stories are about Free Geeks gone bad, and they're here to make a point. Details have been simplified to add clarity.
+They're here to make a point, so details have been simplified to add clarity. They are short pithy tales based on real experience and the reasonable worries of folks that have been there and done that. Please feel free to add as necessary.
-These are short pithy tales based on real experience and reasonable worries of folks that have been there and done that. Please feel free to add as necessary.
+== Free Geek Lilliput ==
 == Free Geek Emerald City ==
-where they let one guy do all the work cause he had all the time even though he acted like a jerk to everyone
+Dorothy, Em and Henry Gale got together and decided to start a Free Geek. Dorothy and Em were busy and able to come to meetings. They even could kick in a bit of cash to get things going. Fortunately, Henry had a lot of time on his hands to contribute, so things seemed to start off well.
-== Free Geek Narnia or was it Narnia Free Geek? ==
+Unfortunately, Henry couldn't get along with any of the volunteers. He'd yell at them. One time he even kicked a hole in the wall. Well, reasoned Em and Dorothy, we can't do this without him. We don't have the time.
 where infighting caused a split
 == Free Geek Neverland ==