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comcom budget 11-12 discussion-1
Wiki modificadas recientemente September 6, 2010 por pierre
- This page is hosting a first phase/input on discussion around Comcom budget 2011-2012
- It is started with an input by Jason in the last days of august - and is landmarked by a chat on september 1
see other page discussion 2 structured around groups
starting mail from jason and inputs
Dear all, this is the period of the year when we need to start planning for the next one, while we struggle to work through the remaining events of 2010 and the preparation for Dakar. The Resource commission - through Nicolas Haeringer who is in charge to work on the fundraising plan - is asking each commission to send their proposal in terms of budget necessities (see his message below). This time it will be for the next two years. We have a close deadline for the proposal on the 10th of september. But I think we can work on specific parts later. As we plan for the post-Dakar - I think we should start by looking at what we have, in terms of existing tools and working groups, and how to consolidate it - as well as taking into account all the suggestions which emerged in the last IC meeting. I see 4 main focuses of our work for the future:
>> See inputs in italics on those four items started wiht name of person making the input
- 1) Prioritize our targets of communication in the wsf process: 2
- 2) Social media and crowdsourcing 2
- 3) Memory and documentation 2
- 4) Innovative ways to inter-connect wsf participants around the world 3
- 4A ) Fostering participant to participant email interaction 3
- 4B ) Fostering participant to participant live intercommunication 4
- 5 - connection between websites 6
- B) Covering the costs that allow us to be a working group 6
- C) Decentralising work and collaborations 6
1) Prioritize our targets of communication in the wsf process:
- Then there are journalists of various sorts, who have covered the forums in the past and of which we should have a general database
[Pierre] In comcom, besides “ communicating as media”with “targets” or “communicating as WSF facilitating groups” ( such as sending bulletin etc..), we are also dealing with internal communication processes - see part 4
2) Social media and crowdsourcing
[Pierre] Openfsm is a free software tool that offers an option for networking between participants in self organized spaces with more emphasis on collaboration, than on merely networking
Recently search by location option has been introduced which allows to find people in a given country or city
3) Memory and documentation
[Pierre]Short term Dakar
This consists in allowing any individual participants and any collective participant to tell briefly in his/her respective participation form
- intentions before the event ( which 5 activities the person intends to participate in, which will be an invaluable information for activity organizers) ,
- summarized feedback after the event about the event in general , and about a list of up to say 5 activities he/she has participated in , and some outcome he/she is endorsing supporting , giving links to the activities and outcome forms ( which allow to navigate the program base ) , and link to documents she./she has made which are in other websites such as wsftv.net , foro de radios, ciranda, world socialforum.info, openfsm.net -
the registration /interaction/ memory module of the event is containing the feedback part of the participation form (which become then more than a merely administrative form, and more than a line for a diffusion list for communicators )
All this was not existent in Belem site …
This amounts to adding some fields in the participation form of individuals and organisations
This would a very effective channel for active memory of the event closely linked to the content of the event , and that is why the registration module of wsf2011 could be named “ registration , interaction and memory” module-
[Pierre]Next two years
4) Innovative ways to inter-connect wsf participants around the world
4A ) Fostering participant to participant email interaction
[Pierre]Short term Dakar
Here we can make out three contact processes :
the typical messages suchas
-entity C proposes to join the co –organizers of an activity 567 , currently organized by entity A and B
-organizers of activity 437 propose to organizers of activity 298 to merge the two activity into one
-promoters of outcome 231 propose to organisation D to come and join the group of promoters of this outcome
This amounts to adding some fields n the participation form of activiities outcomes/proposals and organizationss
All this was very difficult to make in the Belem site
We need to have this in the Dakar site This would a very effective channel for agglutination process, and that is why the registration module of wsf2011 could be name “ registration and interaction and memory ” module-
[Pierre]For the next two years,
4B ) Fostering participant to participant live intercommunication
[Pierre]Social forum expanded initiative Is about extending an event I-e providing possibilities to people and groups who are not coming in the center event to participate actively and in a self organized way in the process of this event, in the same way s in the center event, registering in the same registration system as participants and organisations ,an d using three main modes
- local activities associated to the center event at the time of it ,
- distance encounter activities between groups participating in the extended event and mainly with groups present in the center event ,
- activity of collective distance participation of groups into activities organized elsewhere and mainly in the center event
[Pierre]Short term Dakar
The political decision was taken in July seminar to extend the Dakar event , and to integrate it in the regsitration process with no formal difference made between partiicpants in dakar or out of dakar , whether
- now comes time of implementation keeping in mind that we aim a quantitative and qualitative leap in scale of distance participation if compared to belem expanded
[Pierre]Next two years
Next two years are spanning until the next central WSF event , in the middle many significant events forming the basis for wsf2011 and wsf2012 processes
Tasks here can be of several nature
5 - Connection between websites
[Pierre]The index memory contained in the participation form described in part 3 would de facto connect many websites though the links edited in those forms by their owners
On the administrative/budgeting part:
A) Fixed costs and avoiding duplication In particular:
- we now have a common dedicated server (in Germany) where we are trying to concentrate both the development opensource codes of the websites software (SVN), so new people who want to contribute can have access to it, as well as the websites that have been developed.
- The idea is that instead of having the wsf websites in many places, we can have 2 powerful servers, backed up, maintained and mirrored - and pay less in total. But this implies a stronger coordination among the working groups, the tech people, the wsf office - and the will to do it...
B) Covering the costs that allow us to be a working group
C) Decentralising work and collaborations
[Pierre]Collaboration spaces
Some collaboration spaces are currently openFSM in connection with above ComCom work lines above
WSF software support community – where members of comcom and free software actors can cooperate ( tool design and support for line 2 3 4A 4B)
Social forum extended initiative : where sfex volunteers with previous experience and willing to facilitate development of self organised live intercommunication in places others than their home place/event can get together (for line 4B)