Internal Coordination

[borderlesslove]

INTERNAL COORDINATION - WORKING GROUP COMMITTEE

 

Introduction

Internal Coordination will take a new shape and form going forward. As of now, our top priority will not be developing and maintaining communication infrastructure, although it will be an aspect that we will keep on our radar. Instead our top priority will essentially be lending assistance to committees and projects where needed. In summary, Internal Coordination will be a “working group committee”, where members of IC will have the ability to seamlessly move to and from different committees, be involved in as many projects as they want, and commit their energies specifically to the tasks that are needed to help make all projects and events a success.

 

Who it is for

As a member of IC you are removing yourself from the main duties an responsibilities of a committee member. No longer will you be “specialized” in any area, instead you are more or less a freelance volunteer for Occupy Chicago with enough know how to communicate and function with others in Occupy minus being bogged down by emails, and committee politics. This structure will be perfect for the “casual” occupiers, and those who are limited in the number of hours they can dedicate per week to Occupy (in the 1-10 hour/week range)

 

Benefits

By participating in IC you are freeing yourself up to work in any committee you want to

 

All other committees will have a smaller core that gives them greater confidence in who they can rely on to attend meetings  

[borderlesslove]

The purpose of the internal coordination committee is to oversee committee activities and to aid in the organizational infrastructure, scheduling, and inter-committee communications.

We hold weekly meetings every Sunday at 6pm (new location TBD), and weekly think tank sessions every Wednesday at 6pm at Roosevelt University library (Michigan and Congress, located on the 10th floor)

You can contact Internal Coordination at icchi@googlegroups.com or one of the following POCs (Persons of Contact) for Internal Coordination

David
Trevor

We have committee minutes and reports from the last couple weeks, so if you are new we would be more than happy to update you.

We are currently implementing a new infrastructure for IC and Occupy Chicago so we are playing a lot of things by ear right now but hopefully we will have a more clear view of the week ahead in the next few days.

[Daniel Flack]

I apologize I missunderstood,Dan How can I help? I do believe that all executive summaries should go to all committees though,and all will be in the loop.Not just the press(whats given to them) and I/C.Just looking for checks and balances but doing it clumsily.

[OccupyThisHeart]

Hey this is PAul @occupythisheart

A lot rides on @IC_CHI.

For exmaple, I am with press. We want to be the MEGAPHONE but for occupychicago and not our individaul voices. how to do that? the best way is
through Internall Coordination-

Press needs to know everything that is going on for info purposes-
the best way is for all CMTES to be giving executive summaries to IC
that can organize it and give to Press so we have some fucking refrences.

let me know what i can do-

[Chris]

Who is responsible for coordinating news, events, etc.. on social networks and this website?

[borderlesslove]

I apologize I missunderstood,Dan How can I help? I do believe that all executive summaries should go to all committees though,and all will be in the loop.Not just the press(whats given to them) and I/C.Just looking for checks and balances but doing it clumsily.

We will send out our general report to all committees as well as give feedback to each committee on their individual reports. Of course that requires committees to actually fill out and turn in the committee reports, because without that information we can't organize and coordinate

[borderlesslove]

Hey this is PAul @occupythisheart

A lot rides on @IC_CHI.

For exmaple, I am with press. We want to be the MEGAPHONE but for occupychicago and not our individaul voices. how to do that? the best way is
through Internall Coordination-

Press needs to know everything that is going on for info purposes-
the best way is for all CMTES to be giving executive summaries to IC
that can organize it and give to Press so we have some fucking refrences.

let me know what i can do-

We will be discussing more of our process on Sunday at our meeting if you can make it. We don't want people to be too involved with IC that would take them away from their duties with their primary committee. If you would like to serve as a liaison from Press to IC we'll be fine with that, but we can talk more in depth on Sunday based on how much time you can contribute

[borderlesslove]

Who is responsible for coordinating news, events, etc.. on social networks and this website?

We currently don't have anyone covering that aspect. We are understaffed in IC as we have a lot of different tasks to cover, but we have had more people join recently so maybe we can have some one pick up that task.

If you would like to handle that, by all means take initiate, but please keep everyone else in IC updated. There is a cyclical flow of tasks that we have set up that requires cooperation and coordination within IC so each person's task affects the one following them, and their starting point is based on the task preceding them

[Chris]

There is a cyclical flow of tasks that we have set up that requires cooperation and coordination within IC so each person's task affects the one following them, and their starting point is based on the task preceding them

So 1 task not accomplished or accomplished poorly sets off a chain reaction of failed bureaucracy? That sounds like a serious flaw.

[borderlesslove]

There is a cyclical flow of tasks that we have set up that requires cooperation and coordination within IC so each person's task affects the one following them, and their starting point is based on the task preceding them

So 1 task not accomplished or accomplished poorly sets off a chain reaction of failed bureaucracy? That sounds like a serious flaw.

Except there is no one person solely responsible for 1 single task. There is collaboration with tasks preceding and following each task so there are at least 3 people working on one task and with the availability for more with assistance allocation.

Because it is in the best interest for each task to help others because it will in turn help them as well. The reasoning is so that one person doesn't get overloaded