A True Community Gathering - NABUUR Camp 13-14 February 2010, Amsterdam
By Siegfried Woldhek • Posted on February 16, 2010 • Comments: (1)
The NABUUR Camp has come to an end. It has been an extraordinary and productive event thanks to the 25 participants who came from different corners of the world (13 nationalities present) to jointly move NABUUR forward. Three participants missed the event due to difficulties with visa and flights.
Bringing together different users and developers into one space proved to be very effective. Much progress was made with improving pages and processes on the site under construction. Posts from other participants will show the progress made. Had there been more developers matters could have been taken even further.
And there was more going on than the valuable building of pages. Now that there no longer is a central staff, it was key for the maintenance and further development of NABUUR that several concrete tasks are picked up by volunteers. We’re pleased to report that hey have been. 7 teams have formed, to:
- Organize the selection of qualified board candidates before June 1
- Organize users platform for regular solicited & unsolicited advice to the board
- Organize maintenance of infrastructure: webservers, security upgrades, spam protection, etc, etc
- Website group: organize the further development of the site in close cooperation with the users, testing, migration, launch
- Quality: organize mechanisms that make sure that the villages or projects indeed exist, that the lively villages and projects are shown on top, as well as the most productive Neighbours, experts, documents, lessons learnt, etc
- Social media/news/project/launch: organize the connections of the site with the many other important sites out there
- Support / helpdesk/ welcome team: organize the care for the lost souls
Every group needs to make sure that the task gets done rather than trying to do it themselves with an undersized team, most groups will therefore welcome new members to share the burden of the work. New working environments will soon be set up, for now you can join us on http://nabuurcamp.org .
Most if not all participants felt that it would be useful to have more camps in the future. This would need a separate group willing to identify an agenda worth coming for, to find the organizers, to set up the process, etc.
Many thanks to all the participants!
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