Working Groups
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Working Groups are the heart and the muscles of D4CR. Working groups are circles of people making things happen based on the and overall mission. Currently, working groups are:
You can either :
a) Join and contribute to one of the existing Working Groups Anyone can join the working group(s). Browse the WG pages in this handbook to discover the active groups.
or
b) Start a new Working Group: WGs can be started by any of the volunteering to lead a group or nominated by anyone from the community. Is there something that is not yet done within our mission & that your hands are itching to get going with? Then get start a new Working Group.
The person(s) (1 or 2) initiating the Working Group becomes a - wgLs and they can recruit more with more capacity.
Working groups can be temporary or permanent. Working Groups can have related groups or child sub-groups (e.g. Local Chapters has child working groups at each of the locations). It is then the responsibility of the wgL to coordinate and synch in a bigger working group circle through the #wg-all channel and quarterly calls.
Steering members will keep an overview of all active working groups, and clear out the inactive ones on a 6-months cycle.
Read more about the and roles.
Send a message in Slack channel #d4cr-main with subject line "New Working Group". The message should contain:
name of the new working group, e.g. "Financial Working Group"
scope of the group, description of activities and of how the group fits into
list of contributors : a list of people (name, profession, city, country) who are in the group already. Extra karma points for profile photos or links to them.
lead(s) : a working group can have 1-2 leads. The person(s) initiating the WG and sending this email becomes the
statement whether or not you are looking for additional contributors and a way for people to join, if appropriate
Create a page in this handbook sharing basic overview of the points mentioned above (name of the group, scope, contributors & leads lists & how to join if appropriate)
Working rhythm:
Working group lead or another contributor of the group should participate in the open quarterly calls where each wg shares updates about their progress + share a short text that would be put into the internal association newsletter
Use the Slack channel #general to connect and engage all people active in other working groups.
Start a channel using the wg- naming convention, e.g. #wg-mooc (and optionally, if the group prefers, a private Slack channel #wg-mooc-private ).
Start using a dedicated D4CR folder for storing and sharing working files (“if it is not in Drive it does not exist”)
post regular updates in the relevant channel
Involve people in decisions using e.g. thumbs up and down voting or 1-2-3 option voting (see example)
Working Groups primarily operate with the use of the with the steering group and the rest of the community. Anyone outside of working group can send suggestions to a working group - (e.g. for a method in the guide) but it is up to the group whether to take this suggestion on or not.