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The overall question is ''"How will Free Geek survive and fulfill its mission and live up to its principles over the next five years?"'', but here we are talking about administrative tasks. In other words, we are asking how Free Geek's structures and such will support the principles and mission. | The overall question is ''"How will Free Geek survive and fulfill its mission and live up to its principles over the next five years?"'', but here we are talking about administrative tasks. In other words, we are asking how Free Geek's structures and such will support the principles and mission. | ||
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| + | === Meetings and committee structure === | ||
| + | As Free Geek has grown, its staff has delegated a number of decision making tasks to standing committees. The same can be said of the community council. The recent establishment of the [[Optimization and Priorities]] group and the [[Space Cadets]] are examples of this. | ||
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| + | If Free Geek continues to grow, there could be a restructuring of the staff into three or four sub-collectives that have more autonomy regarding their hiring and schedules. It is likely that the board would establish a few standing committees as well, for example a formal budgeting committee. If this pattern of decentralization continues, there will need to be more emphasis on communication between the various groups. For instance assuming a larger number of collecitve members, it will be impossible to require them all to attend at a weekly meeting. This would mean more substantive decisions would get made at the committee (or sub-collective) level. In turn, this would require the coordinating group (currently C7) to transform into a more representative body. We would have to get better at posting concise reports to our email lists and also develop better habits of reading those reports. | ||
== SWOT == | == SWOT == | ||
Revision as of 08:54, 3 August 2007
Intro
This page should address the following areas, looking ahead 3-5 years.
- HR
- Funding
- Budgeting
- Bookkeeping
- Meetings
The overall question is "How will Free Geek survive and fulfill its mission and live up to its principles over the next five years?", but here we are talking about administrative tasks. In other words, we are asking how Free Geek's structures and such will support the principles and mission.
Meetings and committee structure
As Free Geek has grown, its staff has delegated a number of decision making tasks to standing committees. The same can be said of the community council. The recent establishment of the Optimization and Priorities group and the Space Cadets are examples of this.
If Free Geek continues to grow, there could be a restructuring of the staff into three or four sub-collectives that have more autonomy regarding their hiring and schedules. It is likely that the board would establish a few standing committees as well, for example a formal budgeting committee. If this pattern of decentralization continues, there will need to be more emphasis on communication between the various groups. For instance assuming a larger number of collecitve members, it will be impossible to require them all to attend at a weekly meeting. This would mean more substantive decisions would get made at the committee (or sub-collective) level. In turn, this would require the coordinating group (currently C7) to transform into a more representative body. We would have to get better at posting concise reports to our email lists and also develop better habits of reading those reports.
SWOT
| Good (for Free Geek) | Bad (for Free Geek) | |
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| Internal (to Free Geek) |
Strengths: Strengths are advantages we have that are internal to Free Geek and helpful to achieving the objective. (Good things we do.)
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Weaknesses: Weaknesses are problems we have that are internal to Free Geek and harmful to achieving the objective. (Things we do poorly or not at all.)
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| External (to Free Geek) |
Opportunities: Opportunities are advantages we have that are external to Free Geek and helpful to achieving the objective. (Good things that will or could happen to us.)
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Threats: Threats are problems we have that are external to Free Geek and harmful to achieving the objective. (Bad things that will or could happen to us.)
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See also Trends and Attributes | What do we want to do?