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Project Steering Group

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Project Steering Group meetings are currently for Edmund and Paul, with occasional guests.

This page is to record reminders of which preparation to do in advance of the next meeting. For example, which bits of the wiki (and other papers) to read. This will often include reading the frequently updated front page of the wiki.

Agenda for next meeting:
Outstanding Actions
Additional Agenda Items for Quarterly Review Meeting:
Decisions Made
Wiki Pages for which this development group is solely responsible:
Pages for which this development group is jointly responsible:

Actions for Edmund and Paul Before Meeting on 17/11/09:

Review FrontPage and all this page

Agenda for next meeting:

Agenda items include:

Date of next meeting.
Decisions made at previous meeting - are they a correct record?
Actions outstanding from last meeting.
Anything of concern on the Wiki front page? (Read time 5min, discussion 5 min)
Anything else to put on the agenda from Freelending CIC Private Business
Annual Freelending CIC Accounts -prior to meeting with accountant this week
Freelender stories this week.
EJ: Reduction of number of items on the agenda. What is complete? What is no longer relevant? What can be moved to one of the sub-groups? How about moving some items to a new section 'Possible future agenda items' ? Proposal to do all this during the meeting.
What next for freelender.org website, Freelending CIC and other projects? - the possibles that most determine the future of FL, then the probable changes, then the other possibilities and ideas.
PC: Priority of whose feedback we are wanting (and where Paul puts his time -developing funders or users?)
Clarifying the aims of all the development groups
How we work through phases of struggle and inspiration? (What works best to sustain us, and how we'd like to be seen?) PC: Proposal to introduce an additional 'Heart & Soul' monthly group, as transition towns often have, for working with the periods of despair in trying to attend to the issues of sustainability as we see them from our (insufficient) contribution.
PC: Proposed new approach to Mark Boyle (who I've informed on Facebook about LetsAllShare) and proposed new first freelender request to Freeconomy members.
PC: Sharing our Private Documentation with more people eg interested family members, Eric and Mark.
PC: Offering to support Freeconomy structure/participation by inviting others to our (restructured) teleconferences. i.e. what kind of teleconferences can we invite others to? Active recruitment of friends and family to our teleconferences -and changing the time to suit eg by using AgreeAdate.
Anything else arising from the Development Groups (Networking Group, Marketing Group, Website Development Group, Community Conflict Transformation Group, Staff Recruitment and Induction Group or Fundraising Group)

Outstanding Actions

From 10th November 2009:

EJ: Check availability for 14th/16th December meeting with LetsAllShare.com DONE 11/11/09 - I am available
EJ: Create a guest account on CodeTrack and advertise it on the wiki.
EJ: Sort out pay until end of November before the end of November.
EJ: Write the website description for the annual report in the Private Business google doc.
PC: Write annual report by end of November.

From 15th September 2009:

EJ: Move review of website stats from website development group to Project Steering Group. DONE
EJ: Create timesheet spreadsheet. DONE
EJ: Create website release schedule page on wiki. DONE - linked to from Website Development Group page.
EJ: Create accounts spreadsheet. DONE
EJ: Create Steering Group spreadsheet, and include website stats. DONE
EJ: Website updates: Expand Item Comments field to 255 characters, add club codes. DONE
PC: Update FrontPage with date of 21st September meeting. DONE
PC: Update each wiki page to say which Group is responsible for maintaining it. DONE
EJ/PC: Bring accounts spreadsheet up to date.
EJ: Create database queries for website stats (instead of having to manually count!).
PC: Contact NHS trust person.
PC: Tidy up the How we work together wiki page.

Additional Agenda Items for Quarterly Review Meeting:

(Next Quarterly Review Meeting - 8th December 2009)

PC: Quarterly spot check on how we're doing relative to these 6 'yardsticks':
The nature of High Performance Organisations-HPO-SCORES MODEL.doc
PC: How to make an approach for a joint working project (see this article)
PC: Annual return to Companies House and CIC interest satement -see CIC community test
PC: to bring proposed text to follow up the Buddhafield interviewees, including possible follow-up questionnaire.
PC: Proposal that we stick with the freelender name for longer (eg due to its market positioning) & also consider work under a wider title (incorporating some of the 'stuff management' and 'matchpoint' agenda).
PC: Submission of annual report (January 2010?).
Telephone numbers -and paul's advertising
PC: Request from the Community Conflict Transformation Group to spend at least an hour reviewing the page: How we work together and re-structure our aims and value-statements so that we are both confident that we are clear in our communication to others about how this project works and how people can be involved. (Values -Inclusivity & Clarity)
PC: Implementing Equality Monitoring, which is part of what a funder might want from us.
To spend an hour discussing our liability for anything that goes awry.
Website stats; numbers of members, items and transactions.

Jan meeting -festival review

Decisions Made

September 8th

Rename this group the Project Steering Group.
The freelender code will be open source. It will be made open source after the first full release.
Paul's 'StuffManagement' and 'MatchPoint' ideas can form part of a bigger picture, of which freelender is a part.
A future campaign will target contacting lots of groups at once, so that people see freelender in several places in a short space of time. See Marketing Group for more detail.
Freelending CIC will not seek Data Protection registration, insurance, or other legal documentation at present.