Goals
I'm setting goals to stretch myself, so that I strategize how to reach them. Here are some of them. I chose the dates as something to aim for (no specific meaning - just x weeks or months from when I set the goal).
Find 3 more tech interns - 11 May 2011Confirmed one more, for a total of 3. Decided that number of tech interns is good for now. Aim to have 3 or 4 at any one time? => One more for June 2011.- Make outline of a fundraising campaign - 15 June 2011
- Get some mainstream media coverage for Appropedia - 14 June 2011
- Find funding, including: $20,000 in sponsorship - 19 June 2011
- Find 3 corporate volunteers - 19 Aug 2011
- 1 million page views per month for Appropedia (up from ~0.5 million currently) - 19 Aug 2011
Current projects
- Looking for funding - going through lists of potential funders for potential matches.
- Using Google Spreadsheets. Happy to share with anyone who's interested.
- started Appropedia:Supporters/FAQ
- How to raise our profile? (-> traffic and media)
- Identify controversial and current topics, & link from front page.
- -> Need a main page team. This might be mainly a community-building issue - need a few admins as members, so there's always someone who can actually update the page.
- How to identify controversial content? Someone who follows the news and writes content. Talk with Wikinews community.
- Look for journalism student intern to lead this content, or is that stretching too far? Communications intern?
- Identify controversial and current topics, & link from front page.
Interns and volunteers
- How's task management going?
Finding tech interns, setting up the Appropedia:Tech Interns, mid-2011 project.- Blog doc & content internships
- Corporate volunteering:
- keywords: corporate responsibility; try with other keywords such as MediaWiki, green...
- Corporate Volunteering - Organisations
- Check resources: http://www.volunteeringaustralia.org/html/s12_content/default.asp?tnid=16&dsb=300
- x http://www.volunteering.com.au/about_us/index.asp -> seem to need ABN, i.e. Australian orgs only. Fee starts at $50.
- started Appropedia:Corporate volunteering
- UN: http://www.onlinevolunteering.org/en/org/register.html