<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Suresh Fernando</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:suresh2323@gmail.com">suresh2323@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:06 PM<br>Subject: [OK] Creating a 'Dating Site' for the Climate Action Movement!... reviving Project Matching<br>To: <a href="mailto:openkollab@googlegroups.com">openkollab@googlegroups.com</a><br>
Cc: <a href="mailto:Cooperationcommons@googlegroups.com">Cooperationcommons@googlegroups.com</a>, <a href="mailto:coalition@googlegroups.com">coalition@googlegroups.com</a><br><br><br>Hi Everyone,<br><br>I have some exciting news! I will be working with the <a href="http://cotw.cc/wiki/Coalition_of_the_Willing" target="_blank">Coalition of the Willing</a> project to create a <i>'dating site'</i>
for the Climate Action Movement. The objective is to create a
technology platform and associated processes to enable climate action
projects to identify each other and align in a swarm like fashion.<br>
<br>See <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1kLA1g58tMZbb0-4uqkZU5vDkMMoHpdziOWk_qMkeYIk" target="_blank">Tim Rayner's description</a> of the Coalition of the Willing Project!<br>
<br>There are many projects with similar objectives that wold be better
served if these projects connected with one another. By coordinating and
converging on common goals, climate action projects could achieve the
critical mass necessary to bring about massive social and systemic
change.<br>
<br><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-US"></span>The theory
underlying the 'dating site' was developed under the OpenKollab umbrella
along with the contribution of many of you that are still on this list.
The details can be found in this <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sureshf/openkollab-project-matching" target="_blank">presentation </a>as well as <a href="http://wiki.openkollab.com/wagn/ProjectMapping" target="_blank">here.</a> I have also attached an executive summary describing the project.<br>
<br>The stages in the development of this project can be found in the table below:<br><i><b><br>To get things going, we are scheduling a Skype chat session to discuss the project</b></i>, answer questions, and to identify those that might be interested in participating. <br>
<br><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"><b>If you are interested in participating in the call, please provide your availability in this <a href="http://doodle.com/3cnvhuixsqyz6sf2%20" target="_blank">Doodle link.</a></b></i><br>
<br><br><u><b>IMPLEMENTATION PLAN</b></u><br><br>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Preparation Phase</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This consists of two tracks that we can work on in parallel:</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% silver;">Technology/Platform Track</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b>Develop Project Ontology:</b> What
information do we want to collect and why? We need to remember that the
function of the information is to facilitate matching.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b>Develop Project Selection Criteria: </b>what
sorts of projects do we want to approach and why?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b>Develop Supporting Collateral Material</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b>Develop List of Suggested Projects: </b></p>
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have that can assist us</p>
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</span></span></span>What databases do we have and what projects
have we been tracking?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b>Develop Web Platform</b></p>
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</span></span></span><i>Input
form:</i> some custom fields based on project ontology that we develop as
well as mechanism to solicit natural language input</p>
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</span></span></span>Ensure that project information that we
collect is visible. This need not be complicated at this stage. Maybe a
simple online spreadsheet is enough.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b>Identify Supports/Partners</b></p>
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</span></span></span>What organizations can we work with that can
support our efforts?</p>
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</span></span></span>Wiserearth, <a href="http://350.org/" target="_blank">350.org</a>� etc.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Information Gathering
Phase: </b>target information from 100 projects. More generally we need to
develop an outreach strategy that might look something like the following:</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b>Identify Information Gathering Team</b>:
those within the COTW project that will commit to forwarding emails about the
project to prospective projects and conducting follow up to solicit the
required information.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b>Subdivide Database Amongst Information
Gathering Team:</b> Clearly it makes most sense for those to contact people
with whom they have an existing relationship. Those that we don�t have a
relationship with can be divided up amongst the group</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b>Send Out Information Gathering Emails</b>:
the Outreach Team can forward emails to the various projects with a
description of the process</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b>Arrange Web Conferences: </b>Conduct
weekly web presentation on PMS in order educate interested parties; partners,
projects etc.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b>Conduct Follow Up:</b> actively solicit
and engage projects in order obtain project information</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">�</p><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888">
<br></font><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><b>Suresh Fernando </b><br><a href="http://sureshf.posterous.com/" target="_blank">BLOG</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/my_videos?feature=mhum" target="_blank">YOUTUBE</a>, <a href="http://openkollab.com" target="_blank">OK WEBSITE, </a><a href="http://goog_1343289408" target="_blank">OK FAN PAG</a><a href="http://www.facebook.com/openkollab?ref=ts#%21/openkollab" target="_blank">E</a>,<a href="http://groups.google.ca/group/openkollab" target="_blank"> OK GROUP</a>, <a href="http://www.wiserearth.org/group/openkollab" target="_blank">OK-WE</a>, <a href="http://sureshfernando.wordpress.com" target="_blank">PHILOSOPHY,�</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/sureshf" target="_blank">TWITTER,�</a> <a href="http://facebook.com/suresh.fernando" target="_blank">FACEBOOK, </a><a href="http://www.facebook.com/tedxvancouver?v=wall#%21/pages/The-Way-Of-The-Warrior/156574347703364" target="_blank">WOTW FAN PAGE</a> <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=412718&authType=name&authToken=GrUl&locale=en_US&pvs=pp&trk=ppro_viewmore" target="_blank">LINKEDIN</a>, <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sureshf" target="_blank">SLIDESHARE</a><br>
<i><br></i><span><span><i>'The counter cultural
revolution was a rhizomatic meshwork of loosely-coordinated,
loosely-affiliated struggles. The goals of these struggles weren�t
always complimentary, but the struggles were aligned and together they
staged a mass offensive to shatter the status quo'</i>. - from The
Coalition of the Willing</span></span><br><br>
</font></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a>� - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br>
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