Re: Our goals?

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On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:40:42 -0800
"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:

Hello,

I am pushing the below to -general in hopes for more interaction.

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> Hello,
>
> As is common place toward the beginning of a New Year, people like to
> reflect and possibly make new resolutions. I was wondering what the
> SPI members would like to see SPI do in the next 12 months?
>
> I was recently inspired by the following:
>
> http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2007Dec-newsletter.shtml
>
> Just seeing how the foundation is communicating not only with its
> members but the general public. I would like to see SPI make a more
> concerted effort toward that end.
>
> I would also like to see us not only embrace more projects but also
> work more closely with existing projects to help their advocacy
> efforts.
>
> What would others like to see? What ideas do you have?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
>
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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am pushing the below to -general in hopes for more interaction.

Likewise:-

> > As is common place toward the beginning of a New Year, people like to
> > reflect and possibly make new resolutions. I was wondering what the
> > SPI members would like to see SPI do in the next 12 months?

- Take less than a week to publish its board meeting logs and notify
the members what was voted through [in development];

- Set up robots for periodic tasks so that there's a default service
when the responsible person is unexpectedly unavailable, with regard
to past resolutions like 2007-01-16-iwj.5. For example, the agenda is
pretty formulaic and just needs details adding to the skeleton in
Article Six of the by-laws. That could be done gradually in advance
and then sent automatically by cron or something;

- Produce a periodic newsletter and an annual report rounding up news;

- Sort out the web site - all key topics within three clicks of home,
hunt and kill bad wordings like "member projects" and fix the
incredible appearing/vanishing menu items - but keep its current good
accessibility features;

- Recruit more members and donors, promoting SPI to our community and
other interested (moneyed?) communities with similar values;

- Report how much money each project has each month [this seems to be
in development too] and encourage them to spend it - it doesn't do as
much good sat in the bank account.

Season's greetings,
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