[pp.int.general] [pp-eu] Party IT systems.. - the back ends..

[Justus Römeth]

Mailing Lists (plural) and Redmine certainly helped us, but in the end
party-wide communication is just very iffy or nearly impossible with a
certain size. There certainly is no 'one-size-fits-all' approach,
especially as soon as you start to attract 'offliners'. Having great
elected party officers with big teams of volunteers behind them certainly
helps keeping somehow track of things happening.

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Andy Halsall
<a.halsall at pirateparty.org.uk>wrote:

> Hey ho,
>
> Looking for some ideas on coordination and campaigns support from an IT
> perspective.  I've been evaluating Things like groupware packages, civicrm
> and
> other crm packages and a couple of project apps, but haven't found anything
> that ticks even most of the boxes yet.
>
> I wondered what people were aware of that might make the following easier:
>
>        1a. Inbound Communications (tracking inbound communications to
> teams and
> making sure that follow ups happen and can be handed between people).
>        1b. Outbound Communications (the ability to drop out mailings to
> groups
> based on some criteria - location, membership, interests etc..)
>        2. Task management, the delegation of and acceptance of 'stuff that
> needs
> to be done' within a team.
>        3. Reporting on and tracking of the effectiveness of our actions,
> whether
> that's a specific campaign or event.  This should also include things like
> donation and membership payments being linked to a 'thing' if there was a
> thing that caused the donation/membership.
>
>
> At the moment we are using calendars, forums and mailing list and a wiki,
> but
> as we get more people coming in for contact it's getting harder to use
> sensibly and delegation is not as simple as it could be.  Essentially we
> are
> making our lives harder than they need to be when it comes to organisation
> online.
>
> We also have a mild issue in the way we are organised for elections, that
> is
> to say because it's all FPTP and very local much of the time, we have to be
> able make use of this to get pretty granular, down to areas that are
> essentially small town sized, especially for issues, whilst still being
> able
> to task national resources for support...
>
> So, any ideas? What are others doing?
>
>
> --
> Andy Halsall
> Campaigns Officer
> Pirate Party UK
> +44 (0) 7505111705
>
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