What Have You Been Working on Today Archive
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| Community Team
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| Steve
| Group Management, Getting new volunteers started
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| Julie
| Group Management, Community Outreach
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| Hillary
| Community Outreach
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| Jelena
| Community Outreach
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| Elsa
| Group Management
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| Shai
| Community Outreach , Group management, Localization/Globalization Group, Connecting the Collective with the Community
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| Anu
| Community Outreach tech side: enabling new ambassadors jump on board soon, improving existing community features
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| Joe
| worrying about the interoperability of CS with other networks and with future efforts like carshare and small projects like Airport surfing
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| Digs
| helps with Community Outreach
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| Bridget
| helps with Community Outreach
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| Guaka
| connecting with other networks |
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| Bruno
| Working on the European collectives projects
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| Julie
| Communications, Editing The War on Them Wiki page |
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| Anu
| Tech Comms |
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| Amylin
| re-defining old concepts |
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| Steve
| Helping with CSC outreach communications |
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| Hillary
| CSC Update Newsletter |
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| Jelena
| CSC Update Newsletter |
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| Shai
| enabling better communications from csc to the community, CSC Update Newsletter |
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| Digs
| helping with communications, sussing out my contribution |
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| Mattthew
| Communications, CSC Update Newsletter |
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| Rich
| Community Voice, Groups Management, some tech |
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| Amylin
| Re-working the home & main pages; upgrading the Couch Store designs
| Photoshop, other shizzz
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| Tristan
| working on web page design and new navigation bar
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| Leo
| Planning out the Design Organizational Structure, Creative Direction of CS, Working towards better community participation.
| Photoshop, html, Illustrator, Dreamweaver etc.
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| Mattthew
| helping with layouts, web design
| teaching CSS and HTML, good taste
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| Shai
| Forming structured design team, Working towards the layouts and re-working the home & main pages; Revamping the SurfShop with better designs; encouraging participation from the community for new products, looking into sourcing external vendors
| graphics, fashion, photoshop, illustrator and other stuff
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| Sharon
| helping with sales and marketing plans for the surf shop
| product driven sales , marketing and pr
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| Casey
| Repairing and debugging the site. Teaching new developers the CS code.
| code wizard
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| Guaka
| free the software
| PHP, wiki, connecting
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| Joe
| a new revision control system & system of code review
| possibly finally releasing my new search mechanism
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| Gardner
| working on various tech projects
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| Tristan
| Rocking out on Flash chat version 4.0
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| Kristen
| various tech projects
| CSS, HTML, basic PHP
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| Anu
| tech projects, community involvement
| PHP
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| Keith
| work towards XHTML
| HTML, CSS
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| Tiara
| doing nifty API/XML/PHP/Ruby coding for a broader traveller's network
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Member Services
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| Casey
| - 2006 Financials, Enhancing Verification system, Created new Group and Organizational guidelines, Personally connecting with each member of the Collective to see if their needs are being met, Finalising Security Policy with Aldo
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| Rachel
| - Member Disputes, safety
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| Jim
| Verifications, CUQ management, Member Disputes, basic programming
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| Shai
| - helps Rachel when needed
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| Donna
| CUQs, Verifications, FAQs
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| Diane
| QuickBooks, setting up financials for CouchSurfing worldwide
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House Team
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| Donna
| Feeding the masses |
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| Hillary
| food shopping, cooking |
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| Jelena
| food shopping, cooking |
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| Bridget
| House coordinator extraordinaire |
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| Tristan
| Making 22 the Cliffs sparkley clean |
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As Yet Undecided Team
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| Callum
| Doing whatever comes to mind |
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Jan 29-31
Collectively:
- Been having some great family style dinners. Bringing collective participants together over a plate of homecooked deliciousness! Made it happen 4 days in a row. Wow. Aren't we on a roll. We're even learning how to shut our laptops and enjoy each other's company instead of half-participating in the online and real worlds simultaneously.
- Meeting up with lots of CouchSurfers- and converting a few newbies.
Within Teams
- Communications/community worked on:
- The ongoing creation/editing of the CSC Newsletter! It'll be in 160,000 inboxes shortly. WHHOOOOO HOOO!
- More groups management- getting Tech (Gardener) to code for ability to merge groups
- CSC outreach group
- Member Services Worked on:
- Fine-tuning Spam filter to allow members to not be falsely identified as spammers
- Fixing individual members issues with Verification
- Implementing new features to help volunteers service user issues more efficiently and effectively.
- Tech worked on:
- improving groups functionality
- Cleaning up code
- Turning HTML into well structured stylesheets
- Lots of meetings- code overview for new developers on tech team
- Discussion on processes of code and features going live
Jan. 20-21
- Weekending! A big group of us headed over to Golden bay for a day at Tata beach. Not a perfectly sunny day, but still good to get out of the house and do something fun. Part of the group came back to Nelson so they could pick Shai* up from the Ferry in Picton. The remaining group had a campout.
Jan 19
Collectively:
- We had a whole house meeting regarding housing and communications
- Inventory of beds taken/available at each house and campground
- discussion of how to integrate new arrivals, finding housing and matching talents/tasks for participants
- brainstorm: best format for releasing CSC NZ news
- We gathered together to eat an amazing meal created by Donna (with the help of Leo, Steve, and Philla) Delish!
Within Teams:
- Communications worked on:
- Updating CSC news (like this wiki page)
- Groups reorganization
- Member services team:
- verifications meeting
- solving system glitches
- researching paypal and other online payment services
- Tech team:
- Collaboration with other organizations
- Feature development process
- Bugs, bugs, bugs...
- Simplified version of CouchSearch
- Location fixes
- Chat v4
Individually:
- Casey spent most of the day building two more computers, which means more workspace for more participants. yay!
- Amylin left the CSC for grand adventures. We miss her!
- daily
- Jan 3-5
- made the new map background on the CS site... check it out under: edit my profile > preferences > latest look
- created icons to depict friend-link strength for thomas's new version of "how do you know..."
- has a stomach virus-- send her a "get well soon" card or flowers or something
- Jan 2nd & prior
- Happy New Year!
- Working on design for Memorial Pages
- Cooking & cleaning like a bandit on speed
- daily
- Communicating within & outside the house (focus: tech) - want to keep one foot deep within the community outside the collective (who I feel more like insiders anyway :) and participate in groups I've been involved in before & in between collectives.
- Dealing with bugs and feature requests - Cockroach & Brainstorm, where I belong :)
- Tech News updates (umm... yea I'll get around to doing it one of these days ;)
- Sun-Thu
- Meetings about Meetings - power of consensus etc
- Wed: Tech Team Meeting - minutes pending
- Greetings
- Getting Giovanni & Walter (new coder dudes) started
- Tools for ambassadors to interact with their local communities
- enabling flagging broken profiles
- Sat March 9th
- Patching our meetings upgrader dude :)
- Talking to people who might want to become involved as developers
- Fri March 8th
- Brainstorming with Joe about tagging profiles (part of this relevant to greetings upgrade)
- Finishing greetings tool modifications
- Administrating new developer accounts
- Thu March 8th
- Language fix tool fix (language tool = to handle update/modify requests on the Missing languages page without having to access the database directly)
- Contact us questions backend improvements (only trusted Ambassadors can answer member concerns so no need to disclose the specifics)
- Greetings improvements (only greeter volunteers have access to this tool - ditto)
- Wed March 7th
- Participating into our Tech Team Meeting + writing up the notes
- Various projects: some action into our product development department
- connecting people interested in improving meetings
- starting up a team for tech team external communications with MATRIXPOINT to tackle the problem of information overflow vs. not enough information to people who need it
- translation: I am often overwhelmed by the amount of communication needed about tech issues to all of our stakeholders, users, admins, bug trackers etc. and don't realistically expect I can keep it up after the collective with limited time & travel plans unless we find a better solution.
- Added some Missing languages
- Sat March 3rd
- Sit-down with Rich to get his local serv running before takeoff
- Introduction to Collective Shopping by Bridget
- Calendar-recreation
- Fri March 2nd
- Patched Jim
- Re-created my calendar stuff (actually making it cleaner code, hooray for subconciousness!)
- Thu March 1st
- Got my local server working again!
- Attended a financial meeting excellently conducted by Diane - some transparency coming up soon!
- Worked on ambassador levels tasks - going live with the next CSC update newsletter
- Feb 28
- Configuration is fun... installing local server environment, downloading & importing databases, re-installing lost software, configuring Eclipse the way I want it, whatnot
- Updating/correcting server package instructions for new developers (in the end, me having to go through this now will probably help future developers so taking a blow for the community makes this (sort of) okay :)
- Browsing Nelson for computer hardware
- CUQs, groups etc.
- Feb 27
- Status check with Promitheus: Ambassador levels are going live in the next few days
- Misc. bugtracking/posting stuff
- Setting up my dev server again - downloads are pain in the ass with our connection!
- Tech team meeting with Casey, Joe & Richard
- Starting brainstorming for the next meeting
- Feb 26
- computer still a bit under the wind (ie no development environment) - Answering contact us questions about bugs and made a surprising Finnish connection :)
- Updating [Answers to some frequently occurring contact us questions] page finally - hoping this helps with CUQs
- Feb 24-25
- Upgrading my computer, discovering some new things about hardware support and data forensics... sigh
- Fri Feb 23
- Calendar discussions with Casey & Tiara: attachements are not really feasible so figured out a workaround & implemented the basic infrastructure for it and it seems to be working yay - somewhat limited functionality
- Upcoming tech team meeting stuff
- Thu Feb 22
- Improving member services back-end interfaces with the overall goal of getting Contact us -questions answered in a more timely manner and by people who know how to answer them.
- Wed Feb 21
- Bugs and bugs and bugs - waiting for new code versioning system to kick in before the patches get released (go patches!)
- calendar stuff - figuring out the inner workings of CS email system with Tiara
- Tuesday Feb 20
- Code versioning system stuff
- Calendar communications
- For general happiness and focus-increasement, I bought a sweetass bike! (it's just for my personal usage and no CS money was used - will hopefully help in keeping head to code in the coming weeks :)
- Fri Feb 16
- Installing new code repositoy system on my computer
- Ponderings on Calendar integration
- Updating the Tech News page to better suit CSC Update Newsletter contents
- Feb 14 - Valentine's day!
- Feb 13
- Meeting with Joe & Casey to resolve some issues and redefine our direction as a team
- Fixing minor things in code causing major and not-so-major headaches
- Feb 11
- Blahblahblah - meetings to address issues bubbling under for quite some time. Looking forward to more.
- Tech Team meeting over quality assurance and goal setting before Kasper went off, with Kasper, Joe, Keith, Gardner, Casey, Tiara
- Briefly Skyping Rico over CS issues
- Follow-up meeting with Casey over issues touched upon earlier
- Starting Tech-people-tech Vocabulary to help the rest of our collectivists to feel a bit more included in tech talk and explain what some concepts mean in CS context
- Checking up Jim's patches, committing them and pointing out some code-cleanliness issues
- Feb 10
- More bugtracker sorting
- taking a HIKE to release stress to be able to deal with the upcoming week!
- Feb 9
- see, hear, SPEAK: voicing concerns over developer issues I've had quite a while
- Attended an excellent all-house meeting which will bring some new stuff to think about in a while...
- Bug-fest ;) administrated couple of people into developer roles, delegated issues, commented some, resolved the already-fixed ones
- Started acting on some initiatives
- "Transitions are bumpy" - the rachel
- Feb 7/8??? (what happened to 8th? Really!)
- Out for a run - gosh it was good and work was a bliss!
- House cleaning day! Yay for less clutter!
- Misc. bug-feature communications in Brainstorm, Cockroach, Greetings, Ambs features...
- Google Calendar API figure-outing
- Enabling more beta-testers for amb levels
- Misc. bug-fixing
- Drafting gatekeeping guidelines for code development
- Feb 6
- Fixing meetings bug (Kasper left some runaway code ;)
- Chat upgrade stuff
- Embedding Fare Finder
- Teaching Jim some CS coding :)
- Feb 5
- Dealing with surprising situations
- Improving coder communication/policy issues
- Fixing ambassador stuff under beta-testing
- Fixing some chat-glitches
- Installing NZ Air Fare Finder module (they kindly provided flight sponsorship for some CSC participants)
- Feb 4
- Facilitating dynamic equilibrium
- BugBugging
- Feb 3
- Debugging ambassador levels
- Feb 1-2
- Helping out with the big bugs on the site
- Announcing new ambassador features for some testing
- Setting up the Staging group to help out with testing site changes
- Answering member concerns, informing about tech issues
- Jan 31
- Final Ambassador levels and beta-release
- Bug-informing
- Nelson Tech Team meeting
- Jan 30
- (tired...) cleaning up the bugs list
- Jan 25
- Composing a group settings edit page to help handle CS communications while travelling
- Kicking Quiche's ass to re-vamp chat :-)
- Jan 24
- New Ambassador levels coding
- Checking up on chat version vamp-up
- Contact us improvements
- Contacting people who have had problems with accessing the bug tracker
- Jan 20 (yea I know is saturday ;)
- Getting Eclipse somewhat running
- Continuing giving outside-in feedback for people who need to hear it, based on last nite's online session.
- Idea to feature process brainstorming in the Brainstorming group and with Kasper and Joe @ the house
- Jan 19
- Meeting about problems with the verification process with Casey, Jim and Donna (part of my community feedback from India mission before I forget...)
- All-house meeting about housing situation and touching bases with people (and uploading another part of my still-outside views)
- Ambassador levels coding
- Online meeting with an outside observer
- Jan 17-18
- Setting up local development environment on my computer to start working on bugs and features again
- Catching up on Cockroach and Brainstorm groups after a month (getting there...)
- Starting tech changes required for Ambassador levels
- Keeping my connections to outside world going
- Uploading some views from the outside to the house (including an in-promptu communications meeting with Julie, Elsa and Steve)
- Observing talks in the house, participate when I've had things to say
- Getting verification bugs pointed out to me by Donna
- (every day)
- Put a smile on the faces of others. I have 3 things I try to do everyday. 1) Try to do a productive thing for the collective. 2) Try to do something productive for me 3) Try to do something fun for me/collective.
- Feb 12
- Went to work at the winery. Checked on the lawn mower since I have not heard back from the repair place since Thursday. I am now figuring out this wiki stuff with the help of Diane. And will take the trash and recycling properly to the curb.
- Feb 11
- Got up early to begin second day of my newly elected responsibility. Took Rachel to work and went grocery shopping... twice. Sundays are not a good to to shop for food. Worked on a rough draft for house guidelines. Set up a duty board and assigned various positions. Tried to sleep early.
- Feb 10
- Did minor shopping detail for Amylin's masterful chili. Went on a hike with 10 or so amazing couchsurfers. Had a fun filled evening at the Quebec house. At various points i spoke with house members on how my new position will work.
- Feb 9
- Started two new jobs. One for myself as a Vineyard Groomer. The other for the Collective. We had a house meeting and it was decided to have a house coordinator which turned out to be me. Way Cool! Later I slinked out with 2 chill cats to the movies.
- Jan 26 - Feb 8
- Arrived here with little idea of what to do. Various things to help include but not limited to... Structuring the trash/recycling system, dishes, morning cleaning, help with odds and ends, if someone not happy I would try to help. Helped Shai with the Localization/Globalization group. For myself I began paragliding lessons and looked for a job. Also working on getting some dentist stuff updated.
- (every day)
- Casey seems to spend a lot of time cleaning up the house. Maybe he is trying to set a good example? ;)
- Learning how to delegate! Making the transformation from programmer to manager.
- Making sure CouchSurfing Collective participants have the tools and support they need to keep rockin' out.
- Paying bills, shopping for the household and taking care of all the little details.
- E-mail, E-mail, E-mail. Daily communications can take nearly all day!
- A personal mission to make sure any broken glass around the collective is cleaned up promptly and thoroughly. NO more chance of broken glass in anyone's feet.
- Feb. 16
- Conference call with Diane and Jesse regarding finances
- Becoming a robot. Most of the day on computer
- Feb. 13-15
- Wading through Email.. like always.
- Reading through/ catching up on group posts
- Post on Finances and transparency
- Meetings, Meetings. Getting people the tools they need for their projects.
- Feb. 12
- Worked with Jim to solve huge Verification process hangup- more programming now means less tedious work later.
- Lots of great chats with collective participants
- Jan. 17-Feb. 11
- Helping Bruno, Diane, Philla, Rachel, Jim, Donna, Bridget, Anu, Tristan, Keith, Joe, Julie, and Shai with their specific projects. I'm humbled to by their skills and amazing abilities to take on important projects and complete them. I am inspired and invigorated.
- Jan. 11- Jan 16
- Fixing worldwide cities database problem (for better couchsearches)
- Major improvements for Spain and New Zealand cities
- 3 million cities will be updated by tonight!
- Setting up new collective housing, ready for more people to move in.
- Reading and responding emails
- Meetings with lots of collective participants
- Dec. 30- Jan 10
- On a west coast roadtrip!
- (every day)
- Quickbooks set up worldwide
- Cleaning, gardening
- March 19 Cleaned kitchen. Interpersonal issues. Meeting to streamline contacts and volunteers. Finalized Quickbooks Chart of Accounts, updated CS chart of accounts, sent out to Admins. Yoga. Attended House meeting.
- March 17-18 Volunteer gardening for City Church Nelson. Updated my blog. Attended church.
- March 16 Communication re: Detmold and Paris Collectives. Work on adding additional accounts to the Chart of Accounts. Helping with Collective interpersonal issues. Brainstormed with Hillary on Guidelines for future Collectives to add to Bruno's work. Created a Free Hugs sign, and had the most wonderful time giving out free hugs in central Nelson.
- March 15 Family emergency. Need to return to the US. Researched and purchased plane ticket. Resolved Quickbooks Chart of Accounts Issues, reviewed Quickbooks Company Preferences with Jesse, identified additional items needing clarification.
- March 14 Worked on setting up Quickbooks. Helped edit the Collective Newsletter.
- March 13 Sent in my US state and federal taxes. Received excellent training from Digs in how to moderate consensus based meetings. Submitted info for the next Collective Newsletter. Advised on banking for the London Gathering. Began entering Chart of Accounts into first Quickbooks company.
- March 12 Advise Bruno on European Collective document, interpersonal issues, meeting with Casey on streamlining the decision process within CS. Work on Quickbooks set up preferences. Attend and take notes for Collective meeting.
- March 10-11 Volunteer with Global Kids, work on bike, church, interpersonal isses, advise Bruno on European Collective document
- March 9 Announce Finance Wiki page to relevant communities, begin work on recruiting finance volunteers. Discuss next steps on Quickbooks with Jesse. Shop and help make dinner.
- March 8 Meeting on how to streamline decisions within Couchsurfing, research the award idea, * March 7 Cycling class, interpersonal relations, organizational structure project, worked with Jelena and Shai and Kristen on setting up a Wiki page for financial projects.
- March 6 Housework, interpersonal relations, research and write up of a discussion document for organizational structure.
- March 5 Provided guidance for the London Gathering coming up soon. Organized the recycling and composting. Read and organized tons of Couchsurfing e-mails from last Thursday. Organized and named the photos I took of the birthday party, dealt unsuccessfully with a laptop issue, incorporated comments from Casey, Donna, and Jesse into the Quickbooks Online proposal, and sent it out to the Admins. Reviewed lessons learned by Mike Pinkerton, as they relate to Couchsurfing. Took Notes for future discussions on Organizational Issues.
- March 4 Church, researched other volunteer opportunites, made dinner for the collective, got to know my new housemates.
- March 3 Recovered from the birthday bash. Put together the BOB trailer and moved my gear over to The Cliffs for a couple of weeks. I have way too much gear for these hills!!
- March 2 Helped make Casey's birthday bash one to remember. My B.O.B bike trailer arrived from the US!
- March 1 Prepare for Nelson Collective Update, give update, answer questions, make notes on issues to be resolved. Submitted Quickbooks Online Proposal to Jesse and Casey. Wrote up what I would like to see on the Financial Wiki page, which Jelena will help me put up next week. Coordinating tax and financial issues with France. Need to find more people who are willing to volunteer bookkeeping expertise, who know Quickbooks Online.
- Feb 28 Coordinating tax and financial issues with France. Background work preparing for financial transparency. Call with Donna on Quicbooks Online set up options, research how to upload data to Quickbooks Online and consolidate data. Researched data backup methods using Quickbooks Online. Writing proposal for Admins on Quickbooks Setup.
- Feb 27 Answered questions on the CS Chart of Accts from Admins, with Donna's input. Studied and requested guidance from others on the issue of setting up Quickbooks completely online or with a combination of Online and Desktop versions. Researched banking issues. Confirmed that Quickbooks Online does not work with any European bank. Had a long online chat with Quickbooks support. Sent out Chart of Accts to Nelson collective in preparation for our update meeting on Thursday. Had doctor appt. (I'm fine!)
- Feb 26 Sent out CS chart of accounts to Admins. Requested a Wiki page from the Admins on Financial Issues so others can see what we are doing and know where they can help, when they have an hour or two. Requested guidance from Quickbooks on how other companies handle multinational Online Setup. Obtained approval for Collective update on financials. Invited the Collective to the update, scheduled for Thursday at 2pm. Requested clarification on US and Netherlands bank accounts. Requested help screening testimonials for ones that really show how Couchsurfing well and truly changes the world. Helped Casey with info for the ABN Amro account. Discussed with Joe the org structure, and how best to work with the current structure.
- Feb 24 Attended the Nelson Festival of Opportunities. Updated my blog.
- Feb 23 Worked on clarifying situation with global bank. Rounded up info for the Newsletter among the Member Services Team. Thinking through the issue of Quickbooks setup.
- Feb 22 Detail review of latest Chart of Accounts, and another long discussion with Donna. We are very close now. Submitted the proposed Chart of Accounts to Casey and Jesse. Thwarted a car thief in Nelson. Volunteered to help Bawana. What's Bawana, you ask? see http://www.hopefoundation.org.in/delhi/rod/del-tution%20centre.htm
- Feb 21 Confirmed that our proposed bank is compatible with Quickbooks Online (Yes!!!). Worked with the Chart of Accounts. Worked with other volunteers for the finance side of things. Made dinner for the collective. Fulfilled my role as status checker for the collective. Took on role as Member Services Info Gatherer for the Newsletter only.
- Feb 20 Reviewed Donna's proposed Chart of Accounts, made notes, sorted out issues with Donna 2 hours on the phone. Reviewed Heather's financial sustainability proposal. Dish duty and menu planning for tomorrow.
- Feb 19 Wrote and sent update e-mail to Admins. Discussed global bank issues with Aldo, met with Joe and Rich re background on CS, researched HSBC bank costs, worked on issues with my laptop, drafted first attempt at a CS chart of accounts based on the Uniform Chart of Accounts for Nonprofits.
- Feb 17-18 Helped re-write the verification letters, edited Haykey's book, rode my bike, painted shelves for a store raising money for children in Bawana, India.
- Feb 16 Read many of the posts on financial transparency. Studied which global banks would be best for CouchSurfing. HSBC looks very good. Studied the Uniform Chart of Accounts for Nonprofits and IRS Form 990. Conference call with Jesse and Casey regarding financials. Am making progress.
- Feb 15 Spent 4+hours working with the computer lease company to set up my laptop. Met with other collective members individually to discuss various aspects of the organization and our work here.
- Feb 14 Confirmed that we will need Excel and Quickbooks. Submitted questions to Quickbooks. Took Donna up on her offer to create proposed reports. Learned about the European bank account. Postponed the meeting among the Nelson Collective on the financials until next week, when I will have more info. Decided to lease a computer to increase my efficiency. Trimmed shrubs and hedges. Made flower arrangments for Valentine's Day.
- Feb 13 Studied the Unified Chart of Accounts and related Nonprofit Tax Form 990. Joined and requested help from the Couchsurfing Finance Group. Rode my bike up the hills from town. Set up a meeting for Feb 15 to share with other collective members where we are on the financial side of things. Participated in discussions on the Couchsurf Shop and logo, and the core philosophy of Couchsurfing, and selecting testimonials that best reflect that philosophy. For me, I want to see more examples of exactly how we are 'changing the world' for the better.
- Feb 12 Researched exactly what Quickbooks Online version does and does not give us in the way of nonprofit reporting. Learned about the Unified Chart of Accounts for nonprofits, and located an excel spreadsheet version of it. Researching what other people who deal with multi currencies work with Quickbooks. Thinking through options for setting up multiple companies or doing something more simple.
- Feb 11 Found a church to attend while here, Nelson City Church. Great group! Also bought some groceries, vacuuming
- Feb 10 Mostly personal time: hike around Cable Bay and recovery from that, and then published my blog
- Feb 9
- Great meeting with Casey to define my assignment, sent e-mails to key people to introduce myself and gather input on Quickbooks ideas. Plus attended super team meeing.
- Feb 8
- Arrive at collective, great warm reception, got settled in, set up my bike as much as possible and started cleaning
Reading group posts and writing what needs written, talking and learning about CS as much as possible
- February 12
- Did status check position, helped carry some mattresses, did some dishes, scoped groups.
- February 11
- February 10
- went on an amazing day hike near Cable Bay. Enjoyed being in NZ.
- February 7-9
- responding to the contact us questions I can answer
- talking and brainstorming about the joys of collective living, and how best to streamline it
- wading through groups and learning as much as I can
- consolidating house guidelines and fleshing out a proposal with people
- facilitated house meeting to consense on house guidelines
- February 1-6
- responding to the contact us questions I can answer
- editing wiki and proofreading the newsletter
- doing a little dinner cookin, house cleanin and BBQ cooking
- talking and brainstorming about the joys of collective living, and how best to streamline it
- wading through groups and learning as much as I can
- January 30, 31
- fixing busted chairs, bought new toaster
- learning and linking up names and groups on the wiki
- January 24-6, Jan 29...
- trying to convince my co-op contacts that they want to throw a fundraising party
- reading group posts and writing news about it
- learning about what collective groups are doing and how to plug in
- ELSA BEAR LEFT... WE MISS YOU :D
- everyday
Answering emails, editing the wiki, reading group posts, making sure everything goes swimmingly in the house, etc.
- January 18- February 1
- on vacation, away from collective. Having Fun!
- recent project
- Teaming up with Julie to do complete overhaul of groups
- Contacting moderators, deleting and combining groups as needed
- Restructuring groups page for easier navigation and usability
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- (every day)
- Cook, clean, shop, cook, clean. Rinse and repeat. Member of communications team.
- Feb. 16
- Worked to change dates of departure flights for casey, jelena, and I
- Tons more research on visa/permit info.. got to get it sorted or I will have to leave in 2 weeks.
- Feb. 15
- The power is off- made use of a beautiful day at the campground
- Shopping and cooking for group Barbie... yum.
- Feb. 14
- Fulfilling my role as a house mediator- confronting issues, looking for solutions
- Spent nearly all day trying to obtain a new visa/ extension
- Feb. 13
- Status checker position- kickin booties!
- Helping Shai prepare delicious Indian food
- Getting CS organized with Jelena- new filing system.
- Working on the rundown/status checker duties list.
- Feb. 12
- Shopping for French dinner ingredients, and falling a little more in love with the old sweet guy who owns the produce shop..He loves CSers!
- Getting 4 new mattresses to the Cliffs from the campground. More beds for more peeps.
- Taxicab duties: moving people around town.
- Receipts/reimbursements for Collective participants
- Gardening @ Cliffs
- Feb. 11
- Living room cleanup and reorganization at Quebec house
- Cleaning and chemicalizing the pool
- naps, movies, and lazy Sunday activities.
- Feb. 10
- Awesome hike at Cable Bay, so very glad I was heavily encouraged to go.
- Feb. 9
- Food shopping and random errands around town with Jelena
- Made pizza with Jelena, Vicki, Sebastion and Casey
- Attended amazing Collective meeting. The best yet!
- Feb. 8
- Paying bills, getting people reimbursed for collective expenses, other financial stuff
- Food shopping
- Jan. 16- Feb 7
- Trying to make sure we eat together as a group for dinner each night.
- Working on Newsletter with Shai
- Communications meetings
- Food Shopping with Jelena for both houses
- appreciating all the cooking Donna and others have done.
- Jan. 11-15
- Setting up second Collective house. Acquiring beds and other necessities so we can house more people.
- Paying bills for power, phone, internet.
- Learning more about teams within the house and working a little on the wiki.
- Cleaning new house, lots of laundry... domestic stuff... blah blah boring.
- 30 dec - 10 January
- Bought Campervan with Casey and Jelena and headed out on a sporadic West Coast trip. Amazing!
- Daily
- Respond to user messages and e-mails
- Answer Contact Us Questions that deal with stuff being worked on at the Collective
- Do my maintainance work for my involvement in CS (I am active in several groups and am an active ambassador so I have to play catch-up every morn...aftern...when I wake up)
- Jan 31st
- Communications with members about the messages problems we were having
- Jan 19th-30th
- Trips to Malborough Sounds and Christchurch
- Jan 16th-18th
- Organizing the North America section of the Places groups
- Jan 14th & 15th
- Brainstorming for the Media Contacts group, discussing a plan to get more users involved in the bread and butter (surfing and hosting) of CS, telling people how much I love and appreciate them, getting ready for campground living, and of course, contacting soon to be CSC participants and other people who want to help CS.
- Jan 6th-13th
- A mix of things really, but mainly taking a mild break from the Collective
- A new group for people who want to serve as CS Media contacts
- Jan 4th and 5th
- Worked on the news at the Community Voice Org group
- Got some translators started
- Worked on making the translations group self replicating and self sufficeient
- Exercised some org ninja skills and made a new group for testing new features, the New Features Playground in the org strcuture.
- Jan 3rd
- Visited the new location addition for the Collective, the MaiTai River Camp and Cabins. Pretty awesome!
- Made the first community news posting stating that you can now submit news to be shown on CS.
- Created a wiki page to try and solve the transparency problem within CS. Central_transparency
- (every day)
- grocery/ utility shopping, making dinner
- Feb. 9
- Keep it organiced...letter's and Reciepts! Staring to learn about Quickbooks **with Diane
- Jan. 15
- organizing couchsurfing reciepts
- Reimbursing members for costs
- Shopping for collective grocery
- got a new color printer for the house
- Getting apostille package ready for shipping
- Organizing the crap out of the refridge. (With HungrySteve)
- major Kitchen cleanup
- Jan. 11-14
- taking inventory of new collective house
- acquiring new furniture and household goods to more effectively house more participants
- Organizing/cleaning up wiki homepage
- Responding Emails
- Joined communication group, learning more about tasks involved
- Dec. 30- Jan. 10
- Off Roadtrippin on the West Coast
1-ish feb - present
- finally learning how to program things myself
- changes i've made include:
- adding a new "volunteer dashboard" to help certain volunteers manage their "jobs" easier
- decreasing the load on the mail spool
- creating new systems for identifying members who were falsely identified as spammers, educating them on why there were, and releasing their accounts from the auto-hold they were put on quickly
- working with Casey to design and implement a MUCH better verification system where we can send out letters with people's codes in them quicker and much, much more efficiently
- conferencing with Admins and other core volunteers all around the world every week
- acting as an official mediator for the CSC crew along with Diane and Hillary
today - 25 jan
- spending the vast majority of time tediously and serving the needs of the CS community by compensating for inadequate programming
- brainstorming ways of encouraging programmers to help fix system bugs already dutifully reported by usability testers rather than focusing on their own enhancements and pet projects (new, confusing, and largely untested CouchSearch pages already live on the website).
13 dec - present
- working with Donna and Casey to streamline the verification process by:
- exploring new methods of securely verifying members' names and addresses
- making it easier and faster to print and mail letters by:
- converting the current system that requires files on my computer to a better, completely online system that may involve multiple volunteers rather than be completely dependant on me and my machine
- redesigning the letter layout to fit within different international systems
- implementing ways of reducing the time it takes for verified members to receive their letter
- helping members missing their verification letters by identifying the problems, fixing them, and resending the letters
- answering member questions through the “Contact Us” forum
- working on a new “canned response” system for answering more common member questions
- identifying problems with the password reset function and helping to reduce or eliminate associated member questions
- exploring ways of increasing the number of verified users (we currently only have 2.4% of our members verified)
- identifying and testing bugs throughout the site and reporting them to the CS tech team
- working to improve handling of member “spamming” problems
- working with Kristen to improve the handling of meetings and the invite messages associated with them
- working to add more tools for Admins and Ambassadors to help easier and more efficiently
- adding and correcting various city names to the geographical database
- every day
- Answering emails and working on the Wiki, learning more and more everyday, that kicks ass :D!!!!
Feb 15 to 17
- Still answering emails I got from the newsletter that was sent out :D
- Spent a day at the camp ground due to power cut (maintenance) for 5 hours!!!
- Went to Rabbit Island for the day (on Saturday) It was great to have a day out of the house !!!!!
- Feb 12 to 14
- Sent out The War on Them letter to the whole community... Spent the last two days answering emails !!!!!
- Had a pretty good Valentin's day :D Gardner gave me chocolate :D THANKS YOU
- Feb 1 to 11
- Working on special project.
- Talking with Rico about special project(which was really awesome!!)
- Helping on editing some guidelines with Shai, Elsa, Sharron and Rico
- Working for The War on Them
- Participated in the awesome meeting we had (thanks Digs, you ROCK :D!!!)
- Trying to catch as many ZZZZ as possible (but have not succeeded yet)
- Jan 25 to Jan 31
- Groups, groups and more groups!!!
- Having meetings with Shai, Hillary and Jelena for the CS Newsletter and the CSC Outreach groups
- Trying to organize all the volunteers that are coming in. Space and work wise!
- A little bit of work on The War on Them Wiki page (got to get to it!)
- Jan 16
- Communications meeting
- Editing 'The War on Them' wiki page
- Jan 9-15
- Total rehaul of groups structure with Elsa
- Consolidating and eliminating groups as needed
- Jan 7-8
- Took TTT'S meditation class (it was awesome!)
- Went grocery shopping, we now have food!
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- after the beginning of January
- Focus on releasing parts of the CouchSurfing code under a free license, so that more people can work on improving it, no more Cockroach and Brainstorm, some more shopping and cooking.
- almost every from the beginning of November till the beginning of January
- Most Days... - My technical project while at the Collective is to convert as much of the code into XHTML ready format as I can. While I enjoy the task, it makes for pretty boring daily updates. So I'm going to try to focus on the fun things instead! This is New Zealand after all...
Keith is out... wandering around beautiful New Zealand
(just for a few weeks)
- Feb 11 - Tech meeting at 10am on Sunday. While the meeting was necessary, the timing was bit early for everyone. New system of code commits should be in place in a couple days. Very excited, it will make my job much easier! Today was the first test of the House Coordinator system. Things seem to be running pretty smoothly.
- Feb 10 - An absolutely brilliant hike through Cable Bay. Whirlpools at the Quebec house. Stars at the campground. Happy happy happy!
- Feb 9 - Big meeting at the Cliffs to establish guidelines for this and future Collectives. Elections held for House Mediator, House Coordinator, I thought it was very successful. Digs rocks. Yeah for consensus.
- Feb 8 - I am so sick of dishes. I am proposing that all meals be eaten out of bread bowls. We are full up - slept in the car.
- Feb 7 - Loaded up the blue car with all of our recycling and did our part for the environment. The recycling center has a giant yellow robot. I want a giant yellow robot.
- Feb 6 - Waitangi Day! Glen (one of our great local CSers) took us to a stunning fresh (freezing) water swimming hole. We all jumped in and felt ALIVE!
- Feb 5 - Superbowl Monday! Lots of fun explaining the rules to Kiwis. Poor poor Bears. Afterwards Donna and I went food shopping for both houses. FYI, Nelson doesn't seem to have V8 juice or couscous. So stop adding it to the grocery list. :)
- Feb 4 - Woke up at 7am for some reason. Decided to clean the kitchen before the morning rush. It only lasted for an hour, but it was sparkly! Made a 'gift icon' for profiles. Send a gift to CS and get yur icon! Everyone went to the campground tonight for a great night of BBQ and guitars.
- Feb 3 - Saturday market in Nelson! At night we all gathered at the Quebec house for an amazing dinner by Donna. It's great having everyone together for meals.
- Feb 2 - Beautiful sunny day so a few of us broke away from the laptops and walked on the beach for an hour. Converted a bunch of pages to XHTML.
- Feb 1 - Yummy wine tasting at local vineyards. Followed by coding fixes. Probably should have fixed the code before the wine.
- Jan 31 - My head is full from Tech meetings. Long but very useful.
- Jan 30 - Fixed my first bug! Yippe!
- Jan 27 - Arrived at the Collective. Everyone is so nice!
- 4th March
- meeting bugs small changes to page
- sorting through emails about new index page
- 1st 2nd March
- sewing stuff for casey party and then the party
- 22nd 30th feb
- hitching south island again
- 17th feb
- layout css for verification letter
- 17th feb
- layout css for verification letter
- 16th feb
- working on layout of verification letter for casey in css and xhtml print version layout for A$ and US letter. more little fixes for new home page.
- 11thfeb - 15th feb
- working with jim on new layout 4 home page for new memebers. including design new home page with info from old page that was developed at Montreal. Making it into css. reviving some old functions. Seeing why it isn't working correctly on live site. the look can be changed once it is all in css - so that actual design details of less important and more a point of discussion.
- 22nd - 26th jan
- css on home page. sorting styles for whole site based on ttt's navigation - ongoing contantly evolving styles. looking around site so as understand the site so can make good decisions about css.
- vacation from collective.
- 30 dec - 17th jan
- Feb 12th onwards
- Leo's working with Shai on Design
- before Feb 12th
- on holiday and a vipasna course
- before Jan 22nd
- Discovering New Zealand and working on all sorts of things
- Feb 2
- Leaving Collective to return home to SF. I'll miss you all so much!
- Jan 28-31
- Meetings, meetings meetings. Coming up to speed on the last two weeks, planning ahead.
- Meeting with Aldo and Kon about how we at Collective can communicate better
- Meetings about how to work more efficiently at Collective and communicate internally
- Helped write CS newsletter about the collective
- Gave sporadic CSS lessons
- Outlined and proposed plan for helping connect CS'ers with volunteer organizations
- Jan 15-28
- Off Hitchhiking around with Kamel. Checking out this awesome country...
- Jan 9 - 12
- Creating CS videos page and related pages.
- Getting TWOT pages up including news item
- Working on new navigation
- Assisting other with their projects
- Jan 6 - 8
- Dec 30 - Jan 5
- Traveling - Not at Collective
Morgan
- Jan. 14
- Left collective. Thanks for all your hard work Morgan.
- Jan. 6-14
- Reviewing database schema. Finding where we can add partial length indexes or remove redundant indexes.
- Writing quick hacks in the code to profile the intensive sections.
- Looking at any queries not using indexes.
- Looking at queries that are locking (and blocking) other queries.
- Trying to encourage people to merge queries and send less queries to the database.
- Wrote a proof of concept caching API that would prevent dirty reads.
- 15/02
- 16/02
- 17/02
- Reading more threads oy! vie.
- conversing about financial plans, groups management, community voice
- 18/02
- Laying out Groups management reorg
- Writing up How To get to antarctica FAQ
- Going back to Christchurch to meet Antarctic folk
- 23/02
- Returned to the collective late
- "So you want to go to antarctica?" talk
- 24/02
- Run 50 mins on the beach with Chris and Andrew
- Discuss futures committee for Couchsurfing and organizational development
- 25/02
- "So you want to go to antarctica?" write up
- Earthlings and dinner at Quebec house
- 26/02
- Tech meeting with Joe, Casey, & Anu
- Run 30 min on the beach with andrew and chris
- Org management/decisiont making discusions
- Groups management layout
- 27/02
- Groups management: places sub-grouping layout for julie
- 12 Feb
- Notetaking, finding areas of the website that need some updates, catching up on meetings, phone calls, & check ins.
- 4-9 Feb
- Policy & Guideline brainstorming/approval, phone calls/emails with the greater community.
- Feb 3
- Looking over policy, communicating with members, assisting in maintaining members' privacy via group posts, & drinking energy beverages.
- Feb 2
- Saw TTT off at the airport! Spent the day mostly in town, ate a My Pie, walked on the beach, updated her wardrobe. If that makes her sound like a slacker, please keep in mind that even when it seems like she's loafing, she's almost always around CSers, talking about CS, brainstorming ideas for safety, interpersonal connections, friend links, keeping the house cleaner, loving people, the referencing system, & basically any other CS related dialogues you can think up. Ask her. She's resorted to talking about herself in the 3rd person as well.
- Tested the numerical limits of group moderatorship on CS by promoting all 109 members of the Anarchists group, to Moderator. Let's watch for their repsonse!
- Jan 31
- CUQs, catching up on group threads,
- Jan 30
- Answered backlogged CS emails, interpersonal communication, updates on the CUQ wiki page
- Jan 29
- Meetings all day to improve policy
- Jan 28
- This weekend, Rachel worked through some Contact Us Questions, fielded safety related phone calls/emails, caught up some more on group posts, brainstormed safety concerns, ate red meat for the 1st time in...eh, whatever, it had been too long, cleaned the kitchen, listened to people, lightly edited some documents, & made tea. She also (finally) got out of the house to attend a pro-Palestine event.
- Jan 26
- Member disputes & safety-related tasks.
- Jan 25
- Found & reported broken admin tools, answered several CS emails, CALLED HER GRANDMA (this is seriously important & don't you guys forget it! :p ), brainstormed community safety with Shai, worked towards solidifying safety team, played taxi for the campground location, cleaned the kitchen.
- Jan 20-24
- Member disputes, catching up on group threads, working out chat moderations, brainstorming on safety.
- Jan 19
- Rach continues to work on member disputes, safety, and smoking less (one of these days she'll quit - really, she swears it - but probably not while she's here!).
- She still hasn't called anyone in her family, but she's hoping to tomorrow. Maybe.
- Made coffee in the morning, washed dishes, praised Tristan for cleaning the house.
- Jan 14-18
- Handling member dispute/safety issues
- Finally catching up on group threads
- Catching up on sleep
- Updated the safety wiki page
- Jan 8-13
- Still fielding an amazing pile of emails from the safety letter.
- Learning how to use new tools to effectively deal with safety concerns.
- Dealing with sensitive safety issues and member disputes.
- Washed all the Towels in the house. Yay!
- Jan 5-7
- I'm currently weeding through the HUNDREDS of emails I've gotten in response to the REDXKING email, responding to the ones I need to.
- Brainstorming on the safety features & concerns, including retaliatory references.
- yesterday I had an interview avec the Washington Post about CS, traveling safely as a woman, & community building/ trust in society. It was great! The article should be out in mid-January.
- Hugs.
- Daily
- Communicating within the house...
- Working on the Communications team, and Design team and helping with the Community team
- helping volunteers to be placed in areas of their interest
- helping out where needed but still getting my work done
- trying to ensure adherence to deadlines
- Posting in groups where needed
- March 13th-18th
- Said a sad farewell and left to see New Zealand...I will miss you guys a lot....thank you soooooooooo much...the collective, the volunteers and CS all rock....xoxoxoxo
- Discussions with Case n Leo on CSC philosophy n brand phiolsophy
- Long discussions w Leo on CS design
- Added Bill to the Design n communication teams
- Worked on the CSC Newsletter update with Rico!...my final one here
- Participated with Joe, Diane and Bruno on a discussion making and CS Org meeting with Casey
- Had Bill join the design team...always good to have volunteers who can help
- Andrew is working on some cool CS logo concepts, Chris rocked out with some great songs
- Had discussions with Casey and Jim and Leo about Design
- Worked hard on Design organization of teams and briefs with Leo
- Made arrangements to travel to see some of New Zealand with Adam
- Said goodbye to Claire! I will see her in India!!
- Read some pretty long posts and responded to emails..
- Picked the courage to start packing...boohoo..I will miss this place
- Rach left with Bob..Digs with Keith..and Bruno too ...I'll miss them
- Working on the NVC ways and find it incredibly effective
- Figuring out couches currently and shirking form packing
- Made a guest appearance as Leo's surfer in Brett's how to couchsurf video...hahahah
- Gave lots of free hugs along with Callum, Eric, Leo, Brett, Hillary, Jelena, Kristin, Chris, Bridget and Andrew and of course the incredible Pooh bear Jim!
- Worked on CS Mumbai problems
- March 6th-12th
- Josh came back, and Gardner, Hannah Keith n DSigs returned...yay!!!
- Worked on CS Communication functionalities and definitions
- Worked on CS Mumbai problems
- Started to figure where I am off to next
- Said happy birthday to Rico!!
- Had some awesome apple pie courtesy Hillary and Adam
- Meeting with Diane, Casey, Joe, Bruno on CS Organization and decision making
- Developed documents on branding for CS with Leo and developed designer questions and answers and guidelines for communication and work on CS Design. These will be posted on the wiki once completed.
- Further correspondence with and looking at the work from the designer submissions.
- Worked with Rico on the Communication guidelines
- Discussions with Diane/Joe/Bruno on CS Organizational Structure..hopefully we'll come to a good agreement on one that works..addressed a lot of real issues and addressed where we see pitfalls and where things are working really well..
- Ate awesome banana pancakes that Leo made and we've started experimenting on some really incredible salads
- Attended a really informative and educational workshop on Non-violent communication. Realized that most of our problems are how we communicate when our needs are not met and we project our perceptions/judgements etc onto others, which certainly doesn't help resolve the situation and learned about how to understand what your needs are and communicate accordingly. If we all did that, its a guarantee it would be better for us all :-) had fun with Kristen, Jim, Casey, Jelena and Hillary and Leo...
- Worked with Casey a bit on CS Branding :)
- Conned Jim into looking into the CS Communication guidelines
- Feb 28- March 5th
- Okay...worked on the CSC Newsletter.Yay it went out on the 4th.Keith coded it, Rico worked with me to do the final edit, Casey sent it out and everyone helped in putting it together...thank you all so much!!!
- Josh left :(...Hill,Jelena and Chris and Andrew became the resident apple pickers and Sharon left :( I will miss her a lot. Thanks for rocking out on the SurfShop marketing proposal...
- Worked on Communications with Rico....again.
- Put out on the CS Communication Newsletter Guidelines for community feedback
- Discussions with Leo on design
- Sent out emails to all design folk on CS to ask them to join the teams and help out
- worked with Casey on the core philosophy of CS
- worked towards opening the guidelines to the community for feedback and critique
- joined the tech team...
- Casey's crazy birthday party was pretty funny and we were up for the longest time!
- Discussion with Diane on the finance after she presented it to all of us
- Discussion with Rich and later Casey about CS Organisation
- Endless discussions with Leo about Design, the world, the universe and everything
- Moved to the Quebec house
- Read and reread the ultralong posts on Localization/Globalization groups which rock..I think the quality of the posts in that group is awesome..you guys rock!
- Answered CUQs to the best of my abilities
- Talked with Anu, Jow and also Casey about forming effective communication guidelines for Tech
- Discussed a bit of the new proposed home page with Kristen, which btw is so much of an improvement on the one we have
- Midnight yoga with Josh
- Feb 20- 27
- Well..firstly extended my tickets cos there is seriously SO MUCH WORK to do..
- Worked on Communications with Rico....seriously, if he were here it would be awesome, its such a pleasure to work with him...can't wait to meet him in Montreal.
- worked on the CS Communication Guidelines
- worked on the upcoming CSC newsletter
- reviewed the design philosophy and the core philosophy of CS
- worked towards opening the guidelines to the community for feedback and critique
- Worked extensively with Leo on design....We've been working really hard and working towards forming all the design teams that will execute the future design projects. We're in the process of identifying individuals who will work with us on the design teams to accomplish the CS Design goals :)
- Worked with Bruno on the Organization of the Future European Collectives
- Discussions with Richard and Chris about CS Organization, and organization structures of non-profits
- Discussion with Joe and Leo on Adventure Economy
- Discussion with Casey and Leo about core philosophy of CouchSurfing
- Discussions with Rachel about community safety and CS Chat
- Discussions on various problems with CS in India
- Discussions with Mikky about various aspects of CS
- Attended Mind/Body/Spirit Workshop and learnt about the didjeridoo, listened to a harp recital, saw leo's face being read and played with a wild black swan!!
- Had some awesome food that showed off Andrew's and Sharon's baking skills
- Had some crazy cocktails courtesy Leo...if you get the chance, he's really good at them!
- Decided to study yoga with Joshua
- Finally met a dude from Antarctica!! Had an enlightening talk about Antarctica and working there from Ben and Richard....wow and now i really know folks who have lived there.
- Met the two Austrian girls- Kristina and Marietta who i will meet again in Vienna!
- Yoga class with Joshua
- Had a spondilitis attack and felt like a stiff necked 90 year old and people were awesomely helpful and some gave the most awesome massages...thanks so much you guys!
- Had some incredible conversations with Sebastian, who sadly left :(
- Feb 19
- Worked with Rico on some of the Communication guidelines..can he plllllleeeease come here
- Answered heaps of emails
- Worked with Leo on website layout and on CS Vision
- Continued to be the convenient vegan
- Ate a pasta dinner.....wahhhh
- Feb 18
- Read thru more of the really loooong posts on Localization/ Globalization group
- Answered heaps of emails
- Design discussion with Leo on website layout
- Plotted really hard to inspire Leo to work..if only he could donate a portion of his mind to the Collective Shai would be really happy as design would move rapidly
- Worked on communication guidelines
- Decided to become a convenient vegan just to be a pain in the a**
- Feb 17
- Rach,Julie, Anu and Shai went to a girls day out to Rabbit Island on the beach and then a drive to freezing Cable bay..yay...no computers for a brief momentary lapse
- Checked in with Rico on News update briefly
- Worked on the upcoming newsupdate to add images after ttt did the html coding..he rocks and Casey sent it out..yay!!!!
- Ate yummy thai food cooked by Sharon
- Feb 16
- Worked really freaking hard on the newsupdate...slept all of 4 hours in 48 hours :( sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepy
- Worked with Rico on News update and why won't he come here..Shai would be so happy..she would get to sleep
- Worked a bit with Leo on design
- Ate an awesome stirfry dinner Richard and Sharon
- Feb 15
- Worked with Rico briefly....i think he's in hiding!
- the power went out and cut rico and me off then went to the campground and worked with all for the draft.
- Read thru more really loooong posts on Localization/ Globalization group
- Worked with Leo on Design guidelines and the design philosophy
- Feb 14
- Elsa left :( Keith too....we'll miss them
- Worked with Rico on News update and drove him nuts:-)
- Read thru the really loooong posts on Localization/ Globalization group
- Answered heaps of emails
- Design discussion with Leo on website layout
- Talked with Rachel about Community Safety
- Brainstormed with Hungry Steve and others on developing the CS Buddy system!!
- Worked on the upcoming newsupdate
- Ate a Finnish dinner cooked by Anu and Haykey
- Feb 13
- Discussion with Casey and Leo on Logos and branding on CS
- Worked with Rico on all communications and draft outlines
- Worked on Localization/ Globalization group to start threads
- Cooked an Indian dinner for all
- Design discussion with Leo
- Worked with bruno on Collectve goals and objectives.
- worked on the draft for the upcoming newsupdate..rara helped we stayed up till 7:30 in the morning
- Feb 12
- Discussion with Casey and Leo on Logos and branding on CS
- Worked with Sharon about the SurfShop
- Worked with Rico
- Worked on Localization/ Globalization group
- Answered heaps of emails
- Design discussion with Leo
- draft on upcoming newsupdate
- Feb 11
- Discussion with Casey to keep him updated
- Worked with Sharon on the SurfShop
- Worked with Rico on communications guidelines
- Worked on Localization/ Globalization group
- Answered heaps of emails
- Design discussion with Leo on logos and site design
- worked on upcoming newsupdate
- Feb 10
- Discussion with Rachel on Community safety
- Worked with Sharon about the SurfShop
- Worked with Rico (?)
- Worked on Localization/ Globalization group to start threads
- Answered heaps of emails
- Design discussion with Leo
- Started work on the upcoming newsupdate
- Feb 09
- Discussion with Anu, Keith and Sebastian about user friendliness for various cultures which don't speak English as a major language and their accessibility on CS
- Detailed look into the Newsletter groups on CS.
- Discussion with Rico on CS Communication.
- Spent a lot of time answering group posts!!
- Working towards structured guidelines for the design and communications team.
- Attended house meeting.
- Feb 08
- Worked with Julie, Rico, Sharon on communication guidelines.
- We cleaned the house...yay!!! Clean house!!!!
- dicussed weblayouts with Joe.
- Brief discussion with Casey on SurfShop and PR
- Discussion with Rico about the communication team.
- Working towards structured guidelines for the design and communications team.
- Feb 07
- Welcome Sharon ...she's awesome and helping on the marketing plan and product assortment of the Surfshop!!! .
- Worked on design ideas for weblayout.
- Discussion with Rach.
- Worked with Elsa and Julie on the guidelines for communications team.
- Feb 06
- Went to traditional maori cookout and trekking, New Zealand is soooooooooo beautiful.
- Worked on Design for weblayout.
- Worked on localization/globalization group
- Discussion with Julie, Elsa.
- Plans on forming a structured design and communications team.
- Feb 05
- Went to traditional maori cookout and trekking, New Zealand is soooooooooo beautiful.
- Worked on Design for weblayout.
- Worked on localization/globalization group
- Discussion with Rach.
- Plans on forming a structured design and communications team.
- Feb 04
- Discussion with Rico.
- Worked on Design for weblayout.
- Discussion and update for Casey.
- Feb 03
- Responding to emails from the Collective News Update.
- working on threads for the localization/globalization group.
- Discussion with Rico about creating templates for future collective updates and Newsletters.
- Barbeque at the camp ground...yummy...music..great time.
- Feb 02
- Responding to emails from the Collective News Update.
- Sending out mails for the localization/globalization group.
- Discussion with Rico about creating templates for future collective updates and Newsletters.
- Worked on Design for layout.
- Feb 01
- The Collective News Update went out!!!whew...thanks Julie, Hillary, Mattthew, Rico, Jelena, Keith and Casey!
- Discussion with Rico
- Went wine tasting around Nelson...
- Finalised draft for the localization/globalization group.
- Worked on content and discussion threads of localization/globalization group.
- Jan 31
- Worked on testing all links to the CSC Update Newsletter with Julie,Digs, Hillary, and Jelena .
- Worked with Mattthew and Keith to implement the tech side of CSC Update Newsletter
- Discussion on Design with Amylin and Mattthew
- Jan 30
- Worked on the CSC Update Newletter draft
- Discussion with Julie on groups and multiple group moderators
- Decided I love the tech team....my computer broke down and Gardner was awesome in getting it back to working condition...
- Met with Casey to discuss the CSC Update
- Started drafting letter for Localization/Globablization group and started building a team for effective communications on the Localization/Globablization group.
- Jan 29
- Finalised the CSC Update Newletter draft
- Long meeting with Rico on the revisions and edits of the CSC Update
- Worked on the designs for the website
- Jan 28
- Worked on the CSC Update Newletter draft
- Safety Issue discussion with Casey, Rach and Anu
- Dicussions on Newsletter with Mattthew, Julie, Hillary and Jelena for the CSC Update newsletter
- Jan 27
- Continued work on the CSC Update Newletter draft
- Community Safety issue discussion with Rachel
- Continued work on design
- Started defining Localization/Globablization group
- Jan 26
- Fleshed out the letter and acquired the list of whats been accomplished by people
- Cooked Indian food, taught everyone to wear saris
- Jan 25
- Disccused CS safety issues with Rachel
- Continued work on CSC update and outreach groups.
- Discussed design possibilities with Amylin.
- Jan 24
- Worked on the contents of the CSC update newsletter.
- Discussed the Couch store with Casey.
- Jan 23
- Recommended formation of CSC Outreach group and is working on it with Julie,Jelena and Hillary,
- Discussed the contents of the CSC update newsletter.
- Working on design with Amylin and Tristan
- Jan 22
- Shai arrived from Wellington and was picked up by Tristan and Anu (Thanks guys it was soooooo awesome to see you!!!.)
- She started discussing problems CS India has been encountering, and has been discussing vouching/verification problems as well.
- Met up with Rach (yay!!)again and Julie, Casey(finally!!!) and joined the communications team and is helping rachel wherever she needs help.
- Taught everyone how to wear saris:-)
- before Jan 22
- Shai worked with Anu to define Nomadic Ambassadors
did not sign the NDA, so can freely talk about what was done:
- 25/02
- Tried installing Ubuntu on Anu's laptop and helped with cleaning up the mess. :(
- 23/02
- Implemented authentication through OpenID for ridesurf
- Helped Anu with implementation of sending a calendar snippet through mail
- 21/02
- Improved reference handling in profile export
- Modified import script to use faster hpricot instead of uformatparser
- 20/02
- Improved language handling in profile export
- Modified export script to integrate better with couchsurfing infrastructure
- 19/02
- Coded Ruby script to convert the developed microformat into imaginary internal profile data
- Reorganised wiki to point from Carpool/Rideshare to Ridesurf
- 18/02
- Made little improvements to script
- 17/02
- Moved away from FOAF, recoded microformat script
- 15/02
- Discussions about Rideshare, FOAF, RDF, microformats
- 14/02
- Status checker - kicked some butts, repaired another chair
- Coded Ruby script to convert FOAF into imaginary internal profile data
- 13/02
- Modified 'profile to FOAF' script to create output to be validated as RDF/XML on w3.org
- Coded script to convert profile into an hCard/XFN mix; validated by successful conversion to vCard
- 12/02
- Structuring and adding content to Tech Vocabulary
- Further coding of aforementioned script
- 11/02
- Tech meeting and NDA discussion
- Finding out how developers do not have problems with newlines anymore when checking out from the SVN repository
- 10/02
- Fixed lock-out of developers to www1 from CSC Nelson's IP address together with Joe
- Coding of PHP script to convert CS profile data to FOAF document
- 09/02
- Learning about hCard and XFN; create document to compare all these
- Fixed a chair
Basically helped around the house with cooking and cleaning by end Feb. Left CSC in March to venture out around NZ, but will work from time to time remotely with Design team from here onwards. Received emails from vendors in Asia and will work on this once I return to Nelson end March.
- 07/03 Sharon left for Christchurch...:( We will miss her a lot!! Shai just wanted to personally thank her for rocking out on the Marketing proposal for the SurfShop...she rocks!!!
- 23/02
- Ammendments & discussion with Shai on communication guidelines
- 19-22/02
- STILL awaiting response from Asia as it is the holidays over there...Happy Lunar New Year *waves*
- work on text for parts of communication guidelines
- 16/02
- Not overtly productive day as waiting for replies from the outside on quotations.
- work on txt for wiki
- Help Richard with dinner and continue to cook quite a bit over the weekend...Thai on Sat and banana fritters a.k.a. pisang goreng on Sunday.
- 14/02
- Emailing vendors on quotations and minimal requirements for printing, shipping & handling quotations etc.
- 13/02
- Contacting potential external vendors
- Help Shai wee bit on Indian dinner preparation
- 12/02
- Working with Shai on the Surf Shop
- 11/02
- Discussion with Shai on and finalising proposal for revamping SurfShop
- Made Devil's Curry
- 10/02
- Work with Shai on SurfShop
- Satisfied compulsive behaviour for washing dishes..
- 09/02
- More wiki
- Attended house meeting
- First experience at work in a vineyard in Moutere Hills, in the Richmond plains.
- 08/02
- Working on communication guidelines.
- 07/02
- Arrival...helping Shai on the marketing plan and product assortment of the Surfshop.
- Wiki Malaysia
- 11/03
- Working most of the day of the European Collective proposal (this never ends).
- Came to the point with Rachel that our documents don't mix in fact, coming back from draft on the definition
- Modifications including costs, and efficiency and organization with Diane
- 10/03
- Work on the European Collective proposal... including some thoughts from Diane and Rachel
- Continuing discussion about finances and structures, importance of team leaders and how to find them
- Yesterday was a demanding day, still paying for it... :(
- 09/03
- Contacts in Paris to help organize the collective. And talk with Detmold too, opinion exchanges...
- Lots of cleaning, washing after the huge dinner of tonight
- Once again, for the last time theme of the day was paragliding ! Exam and final flight ! Done, I'm PG2 certified pilot !
- 08/03
- Long but great meeting with Diane, Shai and Joe about Structure, Central workflow office, Int and National Chapter
- Did some cooking. Yeah, it's worth mentionning it ! He he, if you knew me you wouldn't ask :)
- Lots of time and paragliding again, lots of flight and studies... Yes I know, it's a CS collective
07/03
- Work with Rico on the European Collective document
- Work on organisation and structure of CS
- Analysis of the Wikimedia Foundation and France structures, and drawing up a report
- 07/03
- Work with Rico on the European Collective document
- Work on organisation and structure of CS
- Analysis of the Wikimedia Foundation and France structures, and drawing up a report
- 06/03
- Some progress on the Collective definition document
- However I confess most of my time is dedicated to study for my paragliding exam...
- 05/03
- Work on the definition of a collective with Rachel
- Communication with European projects team
- First uphill landings :) I'm getting good ! but now I have 300 pages to read for the PG2 !
- 04/03
- Communication with Detmold Collective about accounting and funding
- For the rest, I'm such a mess today :(
- 02-03/03
- Preparing party, then party time... and after party time :)
- Back in the air !!! Youuu !!! But well, bad flying, had to land in the middle of nowhere, easy :)
- 01/03
- Financial reunion with Diane, and research about fiscal laws for donations and sponsoring in France
- Contacts with Fred and Steff about financement of the collective, chart of accounts, French and US accounting
- 26-27-28/02
- Completion of the European Collectives documents with Rachel, Rico and Shai
- Continue to follow progress and communicate with European project teams
- Begin to work with Diane on accounting commodities for national projects and association
- Great work : we complete a very puzzling puzzle in only a couple of hours ! Team power !
- 24-25/02
- Incarnating a couch potato all week-end long... Half-sleeping half-floating, no thinking. I hate painkillers
- 23/02
- Discussion with Dante 'til 4am in the morning and a few more in the morning.
- For the rest, I'm in such a mess today :(
- 22/02
- Not much progress in my writing unfortunately, my back and the painkillers have turned me into a couch potato
- Discussion with Dante and Kasper about the Detmold collective and positions on CS on their project. To continue
- 21/02
- Good progress on the Collective document with the help of Chris and Rachel
- Kitchen beautification week and dish enthusiast day after a great meal by Diane.
- Bad news of the day : I felt pretty bad when biking. My back is ruined probably for days. That sucks...
- 20/02
- Finished the draft of the first collective document. And lots of talk on the forums today
- Devote some time enthusiastically keeping our beautiful kitchen beautiful.
- Great time paragliding with Leo and Shai (who stayed on the ground though). Will most of the collective fly in the airs ?
- 19/02
- Not much on my work today I'm sorry to say... except some beautiful pictures at the collective
- I enthusiatically wash the dishes and clean the kitchen with Sharon after some great bolognese pastas
- Oh, I made beautiful two landings on a ridgy landing field today but I don't think a lot of people care...
- 18/02
- Lots of time speaking with Larry and Rachel about "Memorial Page" (this is not even my project)
- Work on the future collective with Larry, Fred, Steff and Shai
- Sunday spirit is in the air, and so am I :)
- 17/02
- Future collective project: trying to work on this document proves very hard, but I'll finish it
- Lots of talk on the forums about collective and memorial page. I love entertaining the community :)
- That's all for today, but at midnight, I'm status checker for 24 hours ! Powa's mine !
- 16/02
- Continue contacts and interviews about CS collectives projects. great talk with Rachel, thx :)
- Creation of the Release team with Joe and Anu. First mission : presenting CS new look !
- Back in the air and to ground control "eating the grass" sessions :) I'm dead sore but so happy
- 15/02
- Contacts with Rico, Dante about what the European Collectives should be
- No power in the afternoon, so we all had a good time at the campground
- I'm back on paragliding course, yeahhhh !!! Today, let's begin with reviewing the 100 ways to die ! oups...
- 14/02
- Contacts with Fred and Dante about the European Collective Projects
- Posting on a few groups to collect feedbacks and ideas about the Collectives
- Some chat on the localization group (with David), brainstorming on the buddy project, chat and filter argument (free the chat !) :)
- Definitely not a very productive day. Sleeping only 4 hours to work with Paris killed me and made me feel asleep all day :)
- 13/02
- Contacts and Q/A with the Parisian team prior to their meeting for the project of the Parisian Collective
- Interviews at the collective about "What a collective should or should not be"
- Discussion with the Tech team for the creation of a group Tech/Com for better communication about new features
- Tons of discussion over projects including CSU, CSC Magazine, Photo Gallery, Collective Cookbook, ... Looks like I spent my day talking :)
- Woke up too late (Elsa lied to me about the time when I first woke up...), so go to bed really too late too :)
- 12/02
- Review and comments on the Parisian Collective proposal and sponsor booklet
- More contacts and mails sent... waiting for answers...
- As a member of the "French Cooking Dream Team", I spent my afternoon burning a compote, making far too late a huge taboule and preparing a main dish with just tomatoes. Everyone thought it was a great meal... I appreciate, but that still makes me wonder :)
- Resolving the irritating Collective Cube-Puzzle, yeah !
- 11/02
- Trying helplessly to repair Elsa's computer... Pesky machine :(
- Taking on a new job : Working on the European collectives projects (with Casey)
- Reading all Summer collectives projects, asking about other projects in Barcelona and Berlin, subscription to groups...
- Opening my Christmas presents and posing with my colorful new socks for some great pictures by Phil
- 10/02
- Arrival day, celebrated with a wonderful hike in Cable Bay, beautiful !!!
- Lots of time and efforts to remember how to use a French keyboard...
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