Projects: Formation and Status

The primary activity of this project is producing, posting and managing Youtube Videos and maintaining the Youtube account.

When the need for an organized effort to accomplish a task is identified in the PFC Council, it becomes Project that the Project Formation Team clarifies and writes up for Volunteers in the Assembly to help complete. The PFT Leader solicits among the Volunteers to have a Project Leader take responsibility for it and choose a team to manifest the objectives of the project.

The Project Formation Team maintains an awareness of all the Volunteers desires and needs so as to provide the best people available for each project.

The PFT works with the Council to clarify each project and reports to the council regarding the progress toward the projects goals.

The eight groups on the PFC Council will be providing monthly updates related to the general topics of their Groups. This has been provided in the past, but each Council member has been required to submit their text on a timely basis for it to work. This has created a deficiency in the Newsletter that we can overcome by having a three person team involved in creating the monthly version. Instead of waiting for the Council to supply content, the Newsletter team will have the phone numbers of all Council members so they can have an actual discussion about what needs to be in the Newsletter and the Team will write it, functioning as reporters following up on earlier content and introducing new material.  Other Newsletters wil be sent related to specific activities or content, and they will not depend on the Newsletter team to produce them, but will be the direct efforts of the people involved in that project. This will bring clarity about the Groups and their purpose, which is more like departments in a regular publication, with each Group Leader connecting the topic and sharing news and changes within that domain of knowledge and activity. 

In late 2015 PFC agreed to use the Coeo geo-local social networking website to organize our local groups and enable them to connect with one another. It is an ongoing project with improvements being developed to add new features such as Global Synchronized Meditations. 

We have more than 2500 articles and more than a hundred pages on the PFC site, which has grown like an untended garden, with related content posted without a clear alignment to categories or tags. The PFC mission risks being so defuse that few can understand what we are doing or why. Message integration gives us a means to align and streamline the presentation of the message seen by new visitors and long time members as well.  Danell has instigated this project by herself, but  it can use several more people...

All Council members are invited to write or repost content related to our mission. This has been more organic than we would like, with self-evident responsibilities being assumed as needed. A more organized effort here would be good, perhaps with a team of writers to create articles that address concerns particular to PFC. 

The server project is ongoing since the beginning of PFC. Its members are all qualified and knowledgeable to adjust the settings in the backend of WP. Tiago has been its leader while I have been involved and has the respect of all the IT volunteers, who depend on his integration and understanding to support all the aspects of the PFC Server. The IT Team follows al the activities of PFC, and is ready to add what is needed when it is needed. There are several important positions that remain to be recruited, A database developer would be great, but we are able to meet these needs within the team for now.