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

[Justus Römeth]

Yeah great officers/volunteers would not just drop out ;-)

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Andy Halsall
<a.halsall at pirateparty.org.uk>wrote:

> On Monday 28 May 2012 18:21:56 Justus Römeth wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I've looked at redmine and it didn't seem to fit, or rather would introduce
> fairly large admin overhead and make it hard to simply delegate stuff out
> (providing a system only works if it gets used after all, we just shut
> down a
> feng-office install on the basis of non-use).
>
> > There certainly is no 'one-size-fits-all' approach,
> > especially as soon as you start to attract 'offliners'.
>
> True.
>
> > Having great
> > elected party officers with big teams of volunteers behind them certainly
> > helps keeping somehow track of things happening.
>
> Yeah that's kind of where we have been, the problem comes if people drop
> out,
> we lose where we are with stuff, which is less than helpful.
> >
> > 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
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> > >
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> Andy Halsall
> Campaigns Officer
> Pirate Party UK
> +44 (0) 7505111705
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