User:Kathey - Revision history

Kathey: added personal information

2011-07-28T17:06:46Z

added personal information

Kathey: Updating activity notes.

2011-05-06T17:50:00Z

Updating activity notes.

Kathey at 23:12, 7 August 2009

2009-08-07T23:12:15Z

Kathey: /* Background on the Free Geek Council */

2009-08-07T18:35:44Z

Background on the Free Geek Council

Kathey: /* Recent history of Funding Group activities */

2009-07-30T23:15:09Z

Recent history of Funding Group activities

Kathey: /* Next steps for Funding Group, and help needed from Community Council */

2009-07-30T23:08:45Z

Next steps for Funding Group, and help needed from Community Council

Kathey at 22:58, 30 July 2009

2009-07-30T22:58:42Z

Kathey at 22:40, 30 July 2009

2009-07-30T22:40:54Z

Kathey: /* Next steps? */

2009-07-30T21:51:48Z

Next steps?

Kathey at 21:50, 30 July 2009

2009-07-30T21:50:36Z

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		+	For more information about me: http://rating.nfshost.com/index.php/SutterVita
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	== Board and Council Transition ==		== Board and Council Transition ==

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		+	Currently I am helping Freegeek transition it's Board merge with Council. I am posting committee work on this wiki in my own and other topic discussion pages. --[[User:Kathey\|kathey]] 17:49, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
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	== Presenting to Council ==		== Presenting to Council ==

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	== Governance Documentation Review ==		== Governance Documentation Review ==
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	Free Geek is an extraordinary example of workplace democracy. This ''governance documentation review project'' supports democracy by making the Free Geek governance structure more transparent. If democracy is governance by the people, then the people need to know where their own power is, eh? Maybe one good outcome of the review would be a pretty power chart with "you are here" signs all over it. We'll see how it develops.		Free Geek is an extraordinary example of workplace democracy. This ''governance documentation review project'' supports democracy by making the Free Geek governance structure more transparent. If democracy is governance by the people, then the people need to know where their own power is, eh? Maybe one good outcome of the review would be a pretty power chart with "you are here" signs all over it. We'll see how it develops.

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 === Background on the Free Geek Council ===
 General information about the Free Geek Community Council role can be found here:
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 *[[Community Council]]: The place to find meeting minutes
 *[[Founding Document of the Council]]
 == Long Term Planning ==

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 *(April 2009) [[Grant Writing Triage]] & [[:Category: Grantwriting]]: Our first step was to document what should be done when a grant opportunity arises.
-*(May 2009) [[Meta Fund Raising]]: Our next step was to step back and look at all the factors affecting funding decisions. And there are lots!
+*(May 2009) [[Meta Fund Raising]]: Our next step was to step back and look at all the factors affecting funding decisions. And there are lots. Our board member, Marie helped with this, by presenting twice on this topic, once for Funding Group, and once for an open staff meeting. Thanks Marie!
 *(June) [[Free Geeks not Freemasons]]: I took a perspective "step back" to state something about "freedom" in Free Geek.
 *(June-July 2009) [[:Category:Long Term Planning]]: From June 3rd to July 2nd 2009 I read and studied connections between wiki pages, creating links between grants, funding, big picture, long term planning, strategic planning, space use, and other topic documents.
-*(July) [[General_Priorities]] & [[Talk:General_Priorities]]: Most recently we have been comparing (A) recent Council brainstorms on Free Geek direction, and (B) previously established priorities documented by the (now retired) [[Optimization and Priorities group]]. Renee did the line by line comparisons and documented the differences in tables on these pages. Yeay Renee! We also started our first interviews with Free Geek program area folk. The store was the first area we interviewed. We (I) asked Luiz: Which of these (five?) wiki pages about store plans and priorities are the most up to date? Which ones have good formats and ideas, even if they need updating? How can we help you update these planning documents? (The Funding Group could use help in fulfilling the task-list generated by those meetingsf)
+*(July) [[General_Priorities]] & [[Talk:General_Priorities]]: Most recently we have been comparing (A) recent Council brainstorms on Free Geek direction, and (B) previously established priorities documented by the (now retired) [[Optimization and Priorities group]]. Renee did the line by line comparisons and documented the differences in tables on these pages. Yeay Renee! We also started our first interviews with Free Geek program area folk. The store was the first area we interviewed. We (I) asked Luiz: Which of these (five?) wiki pages about store plans and priorities are the most up to date? Which ones have good formats and ideas, even if they need updating? How can we help you update these planning documents? (The Funding Group could use help in fulfilling the task-list generated by those meetings.)
 === Next steps for Funding Group, and help needed from Community Council ===

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 === Next steps for Funding Group, and help needed from Community Council ===
-  '''Funding Group needs to know the answer when potentially large donors ask:'''
+  Funding Group needs to know the answer when potentially large donors ask:
- "What direction is Free Geek going, and how does it plan on getting there?"'''
+ '''"What direction is Free Geek going, and how does it plan on getting there?"'''
-Council is the place for these kinds of big picture questions about Free Geek direction. So Funding has found itself joining the stream of the ongoing Council discussions on the general direction of Free Geek.
+Council is the place for these kinds of big picture questions about Free Geek direction. So Funding has found itself joining the stream of the ongoing Council discussions on the general direction of Free Geek. So what are the questions we are taking to Council? There are a bunch of large questions to address, but:
-So what are the questions we are taking to Council? There are a bunch of large questions to address, but the ultimate goal is to better prepare funding folk, (and anyone else) to answer the question:
+ the ultimate goal is to better prepare  funding folk, to answer this question from potentially large donors:
-Then when people and institutions with resources hear the answers, we can answer their next question:
+We already know how to answer the question about how to help, from most people:
-:'''"How can I help?"'''
+But big donors want grant applications, so they can get answers to the big questions about where Free Geek is going, what it will accomplish, where its coming from, and its likelihood of success.
 === Background on the Free Geek Council ===

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 === Recent history of Funding Group activities ===
-The Free Geek Funding Group was born in March 2009, as a spin-off from Public Relations (PR). The Free Geek Funding Group has been meeting weekly, every Thursday morning at 10 AM, since April 2nd and working for roughly 4 to 6 hours Thursdays, in our out of the building. Meetings have been for reports about previous work, and discussion with staff about current Free Geek operations affecting Funding. Most of the working-time is spent on reviewing existing documents, updating links and writing overviews of Funding related processes.
+The Free Geek Funding Group was born in March 2009, as a spin-off from Public Relations (PR). The Free Geek Funding Group has been meeting weekly, every Thursday morning at 10 AM, since April 2nd and working for roughly 4 to 6 hours Thursdays, in our out of the building. Meetings have been for reports about previous work, and discussion with staff about current Free Geek operations affecting Funding. Most of the working-time is spent on reviewing existing documents (between meetings), updating links and writing overviews of Funding related processes.
-*(1) [[Grant Writing Triage]] & [[:Category: Grantwriting]]: Our first step was to document what should be done when a grant opportunity arises.
+*(April 2009) [[Grant Writing Triage]] & [[:Category: Grantwriting]]: Our first step was to document what should be done when a grant opportunity arises.
-*(2) [[Meta Fund Raising]]: Our next step was to step back and look at all the factors affecting funding decisions. And there are lots!
+*(May 2009) [[Meta Fund Raising]]: Our next step was to step back and look at all the factors affecting funding decisions. And there are lots!
-*(3) [[Free Geeks not Freemasons]]: I took a step back to state something about "freedom" in Free Geek.
+*(June) [[Free Geeks not Freemasons]]: I took a perspective "step back" to state something about "freedom" in Free Geek.
-*(4) [[:Category:Long Term Planning]]: From June 3rd to July 2nd 2009 I read and studied connections between wiki pages, creating links between grants, funding, big picture, long term planning, strategic planning, space use, and other topic documents.
+*(June-July 2009) [[:Category:Long Term Planning]]: From June 3rd to July 2nd 2009 I read and studied connections between wiki pages, creating links between grants, funding, big picture, long term planning, strategic planning, space use, and other topic documents.
-*(5) [[General_Priorities]] & [[Talk:General_Priorities]]: Most recently we have been comparing (A) recent Council brainstorms on Free Geek direction, and (B) previously established priorities documented by the (now retired) [[Optimization and Priorities group]]. Renee did the line by line comparisons and documented the differences in tables on these pages. Yeay Renee!
+*(July) [[General_Priorities]] & [[Talk:General_Priorities]]: Most recently we have been comparing (A) recent Council brainstorms on Free Geek direction, and (B) previously established priorities documented by the (now retired) [[Optimization and Priorities group]]. Renee did the line by line comparisons and documented the differences in tables on these pages. Yeay Renee! We also started our first interviews with Free Geek program area folk. The store was the first area we interviewed. We (I) asked Luiz: Which of these (five?) wiki pages about store plans and priorities are the most up to date? Which ones have good formats and ideas, even if they need updating? How can we help you update these planning documents? (The Funding Group could use help in fulfilling the task-list generated by those meetingsf)
 === Next steps for Funding Group, and help needed from Community Council ===
-|'''Funding Group needs to know the answer to this question when potentially large donors ask the question:'''
+ '''Funding Group needs to know the answer when potentially large donors ask:'''
-:'''"What direction is Free Geek going, and how does it plan on getting there?"'''|
+ "What direction is Free Geek going, and how does it plan on getting there?"'''
 Council is the place for these kinds of big picture questions about Free Geek direction. So Funding has found itself joining the stream of the ongoing Council discussions on the general direction of Free Geek.

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 == Presenting to Council ==
-Council has been reviewing previous priorities and updating them in a number of the last 4 meetings (now July 2009). Now the funding/long term planning background work we have been working on (Mateo, Renee, Luiz, Tony, Richard and myself) should go to council. Here is a little of the preparation for that presentation:
+The Funding Group (Mateo, Renee, Luiz, Tony, Richard and myself) is ready to present its background work to Community Council for direction on next steps. --[[User:Kathey|ks]] 22:40, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
-*[[Grant Writing Triage]] & [[:Category: Grantwriting]]: Our first step was to document what should be done when a grant opportunity arises.
+=== Recent history of Funding Group activities ===
-=== Next steps? ===
+The Free Geek Funding Group was born in March 2009, as a spin-off from Public Relations (PR). The Free Geek Funding Group has been meeting weekly, every Thursday morning at 10 AM, since April 2nd and working for roughly 4 to 6 hours Thursdays, in our out of the building. Meetings have been for reports about previous work, and discussion with staff about current Free Geek operations affecting Funding. Most of the working-time is spent on reviewing existing documents, updating links and writing overviews of Funding related processes.
-:'''"What direction is Free Geek going, and how does it plan on getting there?"'''
+*(1) [[Grant Writing Triage]] & [[:Category: Grantwriting]]: Our first step was to document what should be done when a grant opportunity arises.
 Council is the place for these kinds of big picture questions about Free Geek direction. So Funding has found itself joining the stream of the ongoing Council discussions on the general direction of Free Geek.

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 === Next steps? ===
-:"What direction is Free Geek going, and how does it plan on getting there?"
+''':"What direction is Free Geek going, and how does it plan on getting there?"'''
 Council is the place for these kinds of big picture questions about Free Geek direction. So Funding has found itself joining the stream of the ongoing Council discussions on the general direction of Free Geek.
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 Then when people and institutions with resources hear the answers, we can answer their next question:
-:"How can I help?"
+''':"How can I help?"'''
 === Background on the Free Geek Council ===