General IdCommons Action Items

This list was started based on a conversation between Eugene, Kaliya and MaryR on 3/18 and is a place holder to track open/proposed tasks and activities

Operations

Improving infrastucture is top priority - Goal is to have website and infrastructure set up by IIW

• Identify and investigate (evaluate quality and cost) of services that specialize in outsourced operations for non-profits. (Accounting, IT, etc.)
• Follow-up with Fen to see if he has fully connected with Stas about providing sys admin support courtesy of Parity (Eugene)
• Investigate using Mailman mailing lists and getting it openid enabled (also i-card enabled) (Eugene to follow-up with Phil)
• Continue wiki moving work

Holding Space and Brand

• Consider moving identity-gang mailing list to IdCommons branded mailing list once it is available. (Need to consider trade off brand vs. potential disruption on list.)
• Logos for community participants to put on their websites. Five to start - Member idCommoms, member of Identity Gang, etc.
• Need to have online resources that projects can leverage so that we can make this a selling point for a group to come to IdCommons
• Create a Community Outreach and Development Plan (Evangelism that should be done if we can raise the $$$)
• Get existing community members (the next ring of people) up to speed on the current state of IC.
• Identify community members who want to be mentors to new/emerging working groups.
• Create new working group kit (step by step clear outline) (This will reduce burden of getting new groups on-board and encourage new groups to come on-board)
  • Existing autonomous organization
  • Subgroup, or committee, or project of an autonomous organization
  • Groups of people who want to form community groups of IC but have no formal affiliation.
• Website
• Need to fix the working group list on the wiki and correct statuses as errors were introduced during a previous round of edits. (Eugene knows correct content.) Action Groups
• Institute a practice for spending $$ (Short and Long term) Budget Process
• Identify and budget for outsourcing
• Institute a procedure under which money can be given to IdCommons for use by a specific group. (So that there doesn't have to be a stewards vote to disburse the $$)
• Create outreach plan - Identify candidates like Doc Searls.

DONE

• Have quarterly reports be done directly on wiki.

Fundraising

• IIW 2008A sponsor solicitations have already been sent out.
• Review current budget and draft proposed "ideal" budget based on incremental funding (Needed for discussions with potential incremental sponsors.)
• Create interim (pre June) fundraising actions list
• Create IIW 2008B synchronized fundraising plan