The Alchemist7 said:
I fully agree. I have been thinking about this for months, what if we would have sort of departments where members can voluntarily join wherever they are talented at and they would receive a sort of status/rank so all members can see that they are part in one or more departments, like for example:
- Internet Activism team, which has the duty to spread JoS by all means they can safely make use of
- New member helpers, which are experienced members tasked to help new people visiting the forum with any information they need to get started in SS
- IT team, members tasked to create JoS websites and mantain the security of already existing ones and other IT related things
- Translation teams, members tasked to translate JoS in other languages
- Moderation team, which would be tasked with approving posts, mantaining the forum `clean` by moving topics if they are posted in the wrong subforums and related moderation duties
A big advantage is that much of this exist already, but not in an organized fashion where such teams are formally delegated or such ranks to exist (yet)
There can also be as you said backup teams responsible to save as much of the JoS offline as possible, in all languages, although regarding backup, I consider members should be responsible to do backup of JoS in their own language, so this huge task won't fall on the shoulders of few people as there are lots of JoS websites in multiple languages, members speaking a langauge should involve in saving offline any JoS website or translation that exist in their language. I am also saving offline everything being translated currently in the Translation subforum but these are more like future projects that will will be manifested as I refer primarily to already established websites. Or research teams that are tasked to research whatever information is needed or requested either by the Clergy or by the activism team or any other `department` or member. Also teams/departments can collaborate like if the activism team nead something translated in another language to use for activism, they can ask someone in the translation team for the relevant language etc. It would be interesting to have all these I think, although as I said a big part of such effort is already manifested for long time.
Much appreciated your kind comments.
And I do agree.
For these intents and purposes, it is a step in a right direction regarding organization and department management.
I wouldn't mind "corporate" structure either, managers of departments directing what may need to be done, even tasks and objectives to be achieved and results to be reviewed by supervisores, in this case being high priests/ess.
This may look ugly (posting from phone) but I'll do my best to illustrate example (remember, it's an example which can be modified for best case usage):
HP (The Director)
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|||Archivist (managing daily/weekly/monthly |||operations, management level)
|||Manager
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|||---- history archivist (operational level)
|||---- JoS archivist
|||---- Human knowledge archivist (math, science, art....)
|||---- Human literature archivist
|||---- Human skills archivist (welding, electrical, machinery, whatever)
|||---- Type here other backup stuff to be archived
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|||Daily meditations& support manager (motivation |||and support to provide assistance for new people |||struggling to do daily meditations)
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|||Activism manager
|||---forum posting
|||---infographics
|||---information warfare
|||---research team
|||---forum marketing team
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|||IT Manager
|||---JoS and forum management
|||---software management
|||---website maintenance and design
|||---communications (main and backup networks)
|||---security teams
Regarding posting review and filtering, I support fully, sometimes someone may post something under emotional charge and can cause unintentional damage to an individual or a group, and also keeps probable spam at bay.
Edit to post reviewer: if the diagram looks like crap, feel free to modify it to look nice.