Nonprofit Assistance Program Proposal
Issues list
- Change Name?
- Nonprofit Assistance Program?
- Resources we have available:
- Software
- Open office
- Media Wiki
- RT
- Hardware
- Volunteers
- who know stuff
- who want to learn
- Programs:
- Build
- Grants
- Tech Support
- Education
- Adoption
- Software
- Demand by NPs for training
- Admin Literacy
- Teaching them vocabulary
- Basic Skills
- Backups
- Admin Mailing list
- ?
- User Training (of various apps)
- Admin Literacy
- What are our goals
- How is this financed?
A basic rough proposal
Collaborative Technologies should:
- consider changing its name
- (to dissassociate itself from seeds of a bad reputation inside and outside of Free Geek)
- re-invent itself as a a way to package existing Free Geek programs for Nonprofits
- Hardware Grants, Technical Support, and Education would be the three corenerstones of the new program
- initially add to that package only a few very easy to do things
- a slightly expanded distro with a few extra packages that we already understand could add to our existing software and make a Nonprofit distro that is supportable, teachable, and much more useful to nonprofits
- survey the nonprofit community about what additional services would be useful
- The survey should only offer small, reachable steps beyond what we can currently do. Surveys are as much a marketing tool as they are information gathering, so this needs to be done carefully.
- plan and maintain three stages defined by short term, medium term, and long term goals
- As we complete each goal, we should adjust the phases. The short term stuff is on the plate right now, but the medium and long term goals give us a sense of direction.
Short term Goals
- Hardware
- We can deliver,grant Spec computers,Firewalls, Diskless Labs,cabling,networking,printers
- Software
- Linux(debian), Standard Freekbox Applications, Samba, Webmin, CUPS
- Education
- Training on freekbox standard(adoption style) webmin. on site training or here
- Tech Support
- during Tech support hours. Trying to increase as much as possible
- financing
- fee for diskless lab,education (System Admin,Vocabulary, on site Training),tech support(small monthly fee?)
- staffing
- Current staff and volounteers
Medium Term goals
- Hardware
- all of the above plus.
Enterprise level (fail over, redundancy, etc..) Scanners, cameras?
- Software
- all of the above plus.
off the shelf non customized database app. (front end to windows DB or vice versa)
- Education
- all of the above plus.
Training on non custom DB
- Tech Support
- all of the above plus.
regular working hours
- financing
- all of the above plus
monthly fee for support charging for education, enterprise level
- staffing
- all of the above plus.
part time coordinator internship
long term Goals
Hardware
all of the above plus.
Software
all of the above plus. Custom Applications (DB)
Education
all of the above plus.
Tech Support
all of the above plus. on site support
financing
all of the above plus. Charging for on site support open source software development grants
staffing
all of the above plus. full time staff