Commitments

Introduction

This page is dedicated to keeping track of commitments of volunteers regarding work towards completing the Village Construction Set (GVCS) in as timely a fashion as possible. The motivation behind this page is to foster accountability and to help people clarify realistic goals and expectations. The aims of this are several:

• To show commitments to an outside audience - where the outside audience gains insight into how effective the GVCS team is in terms of delivering results.
• Provide transparency to the GVCS development process
• Help volunteers plan their work more effectively by having an explicit chance to write down their goals

How Does This Work?

In order to keep people to their promises regarding volunteer work, the process is as follows. Please see the first entry for Marcin Jakubowski for the template of all the information required.

• All volunteers set up an entry on this wiki upon being requested to do so by Project Managers or the Factor e Farm Core Team.
• The entry consists of the written goals that volunteers commit to for the near future. The goal is to clarify realistic expectations, in as much detail as is possible to write down in a short description.
  • Date of promise
  • 1 month goal
  • 6 month goal
• The volunteer or someone else goes back to the entry after 1 month and after 6 months, and reports back - whether the goal has or has not been reached. If the goals have not been reached, it is useful to comment why.
• Comments - it is useful to keep track of comments, as these may provide insight into why things do or do not get accomplished. This is useful both for the development team and for an outside audience studying organizational effectiveness.

The point of this is both