Trends and Attributes
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External Trends
- ewaste legislation
- basel action network
- change in tech:
- desktop -> laptops
- CRT -> LCD
- Printers -> AllInOnes
- PDAs and phones
- wifi
- more corporate donations
- more free geeks
- more irritating pseudo free geeks
- more recycling competition
- continued growth
- flattening growth
- increasing cost of transportation
- more and better FS/OSS
Internal Attributes
- messy (getting better?)
- increasing benefits for staff
- two strong programs
- constant flow of volunteers
- diverse income stream
- gobs of hardware
- crappy project management skills
- could be better at customer service:
- store
- receiving/donations
- tech support
- volunteer management issues (good and bad)
- growth in paid staff
- FS/OSS community involvement
- solid core of volunteers
Pages in the Big Picture category describe visions of where Free Geek can and should go. They are meta-thinking about the organization as a whole. It is similar to the category of Long Term Planning. The difference may be that Long Term Planning has the details, where the Big Picture talks at a higher level of analysis, but with lower resolution.