Yeah great officers/volunteers would not just drop out ;-)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Andy Halsall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:a.halsall@pirateparty.org.uk" target="_blank">a.halsall@pirateparty.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Monday 28 May 2012 18:21:56 Justus Römeth wrote:<br>
> Mailing Lists (plural) and Redmine certainly helped us, but in the end<br>
> party-wide communication is just very iffy or nearly impossible with a<br>
> certain size.<br>
<br>
</div>I've looked at redmine and it didn't seem to fit, or rather would introduce<br>
fairly large admin overhead and make it hard to simply delegate stuff out<br>
(providing a system only works if it gets used after all, we just shut down a<br>
feng-office install on the basis of non-use).<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> There certainly is no 'one-size-fits-all' approach,<br>
> especially as soon as you start to attract 'offliners'.<br>
<br>
</div>True.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Having great<br>
> elected party officers with big teams of volunteers behind them certainly<br>
> helps keeping somehow track of things happening.<br>
<br>
</div>Yeah that's kind of where we have been, the problem comes if people drop out,<br>
we lose where we are with stuff, which is less than helpful.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">><br>
> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Andy Halsall<br>
><br>
> <<a href="mailto:a.halsall@pirateparty.org.uk">a.halsall@pirateparty.org.uk</a>>wrote:<br>
> > Hey ho,<br>
> ><br>
> > Looking for some ideas on coordination and campaigns support from an IT<br>
> > perspective. I've been evaluating Things like groupware packages,<br>
> > civicrm and<br>
> > other crm packages and a couple of project apps, but haven't found<br>
> > anything that ticks even most of the boxes yet.<br>
> ><br>
> > I wondered what people were aware of that might make the following easier:<br>
> > 1a. Inbound Communications (tracking inbound communications to<br>
> ><br>
> > teams and<br>
> > making sure that follow ups happen and can be handed between people).<br>
> ><br>
> > 1b. Outbound Communications (the ability to drop out mailings to<br>
> ><br>
> > groups<br>
> > based on some criteria - location, membership, interests etc..)<br>
> ><br>
> > 2. Task management, the delegation of and acceptance of 'stuff<br>
> > that<br>
> ><br>
> > needs<br>
> > to be done' within a team.<br>
> ><br>
> > 3. Reporting on and tracking of the effectiveness of our actions,<br>
> ><br>
> > whether<br>
> > that's a specific campaign or event. This should also include things<br>
> > like donation and membership payments being linked to a 'thing' if there<br>
> > was a thing that caused the donation/membership.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > At the moment we are using calendars, forums and mailing list and a wiki,<br>
> > but<br>
> > as we get more people coming in for contact it's getting harder to use<br>
> > sensibly and delegation is not as simple as it could be. Essentially we<br>
> > are<br>
> > making our lives harder than they need to be when it comes to<br>
> > organisation online.<br>
> ><br>
> > We also have a mild issue in the way we are organised for elections, that<br>
> > is<br>
> > to say because it's all FPTP and very local much of the time, we have to<br>
> > be able make use of this to get pretty granular, down to areas that are<br>
> > essentially small town sized, especially for issues, whilst still being<br>
> > able<br>
> > to task national resources for support...<br>
> ><br>
> > So, any ideas? What are others doing?<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > --<br>
> > Andy Halsall<br>
> > Campaigns Officer<br>
> > Pirate Party UK<br>
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Pirate Party UK<br>
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