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Revision as of 10:50, 4 February 2009
This time line was started as a brain storm at the July 1, 2008 Priorities meeting. [1]
2008
- Start
- Timeline started in June/July 2008
- Add propagation hours -- Done in 2008
- Hire Prebuild intern -- Altered in 2008: Prebuild now fully covered
- End of summer
- Remove Store internship -- Done in 2008
- Add a second Store Coordinator -- Done in 2008
- Redistribute hours creating better staff coverage in receiving. (AKA responsible receiving) -- Done in 2008
- Thanksgiving
- November 27
- Phases we'll start this year:
- Holiday Store hours {Thanksgiving - Jan 2009} -- Postponed in 2008: until production catches up with demand
- Solidify more corporate donations {start - Jan 1 2009} -- Changed to "Actively recruit more corporate contracts" (but more corporate pickups are already happening)
- Outreach to schools {Thanksgiving - July 1 2009} -- ???
- In the last quarter of 2008 these things also happened:
- Economic Meltdown caused a crash in commodities prices, lowering recycling income
- This helped lead to The Weirdness starting early
- We dropped our monitor fees to $7 (due to approaching eWaste legislation)
- We had a few large collection events
- We sent out a fundraising mailing (basically a dud)
- We participated in the Give!Guide program at Willamette Week (a modest success for us)
- A contract with the City of Portland went into effect. We are now getting regular deliveries of computers from the City most every week.
- Economic Meltdown caused a crash in commodities prices, lowering recycling income
2009
- eWaste legislation kicks in
- Jan 1, 2009
- Digital TV conversion
- Along with eWaste legislation will lead to more TVs received
- Could happen in February. May be postponed a few months
- The Weirdness
- So many variables and unknowns it will be difficult to make predictions. This was anticipated to start around Jan 1 and end three to six months later. It actually came early, due to the economic meltdown and seems to have ended by February 1, 2009. The one big unknown is when the economy will normalize.
- Phases we'll start this year:
- Recruit more volunteers as needed and of whatever kinds needed {until the end of time}
- Capital campaign for building {starts after economic normalization, or a solid big corporate sponsor, or eviction and lasts until we move in to new building}
- Actively solicit more corporate contracts {Jan 1, 2008 - end of year (or ongoing)}
- Establish Free Geek Intergalactic, Inc.
- Create a legal entity to manage Free Geek startups and trademark enforcement issues. This entity would evenutally be controlled by multiple Free Geeks, not just ourselves.
- Potentially do this in the fall.
2010
- Capital campaign coordinator???
- We might decide to hire someone to help coordinate a capital campaign. Currently, even having a capital campaign is delayed until the economy normalizes or other events force our hand.
2011
2012
- Move into new building (end of lease), around Feb 2012, give or take
- If the economic crisis continues, we might find this date being put off.