Hello Brigade Network! I am on the Core Team of a new brigade in Milwaukee, and we are trying to make decisions on how projects either receive extra resource support from or become owned/managed by the core team vs those that simply have dedicated time and space at a hack night. I was wondering if…

Hey @Andrewyaz , welcome to Discourse! You’re posting in the right place-- this is a common topic in the Brigade Network. The current Brigade policies around this have been indexed in this Discourse topic: [image] Project Frameworks/Guidelines/Checklists/etc Projects For …

I touch on this topic a bit in the Civic Cloud proposal: [image] Project Charter: The Civic Cloud Projects About this Topic This topic is a wiki document for the collaborative development of a project charter. Let’s evolve it to a point where it answers all essential que…

Code for BTV, like many brigades, has been struggling with this for years. Right now the struggle has become “are we over-doing it?” There is a lot to be said for clear process, and careful thought going into a brigade making a public commitment to a project. But at the same time, the more significa…

[image] nFlourish: So … and this is a current discussion in our brigade … can we reasonably consider the volunteers, broadly, as a resource to manage? I think this is a really key point, and that no we can’t think of volunteers as “resources” we can manage and impose requirements on. On the f…

I come down in two ways when it comes to the ‘official project’ issue. Common scenario: Newish member in Open Mos Eisley forks an existing project… let’s say oh, I dunno, Luke Skywalker and Adopt-a-hydrant. Newish member starts working on it and finds that it really…doesn’t work the way they though…

Yeah this is also what I will allude to in my response, that I originally “stream-of-consciousness” wrote out in Slack

In a sense I want to blend both the volunteer driven project and the one maintained by the core team, that is alluded to in @nFlourish ’s slack post. And the way I consider doing both is having two sort of project tiers. We let things come organically if they are just ideas someone has, lets say it…

I also love the idea of learning vs working group. Is there a difference in the way resources are allocated to learning vs working groups? After our first hack night, it seems the “too political” question isn’t as much as a concern as I thought it may be (which was mostly a symptom of trying to ad…

So, CHN doesn’t allocate resources to individual groups/projects but rather focuses on the event itself. (We film the speakers in HD and have ASL interpreter.) Most groups resource themselves. That said, not everyone has to do it that way. If you’ve raised money as your Brigade you’re totally allow…

Distinguishing Between Brigade "Sanctioned"/"Official" Projects and other Projects

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Andrewyaz June 14, 2019, 7:54pm 4

Great. Thank you for directing me to all that great institutional knowledge.i will definitely go through the materials and post follow up questions in the thread

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