Path Forward

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Past and future roadmap milestones required for our progress

Start a list

Cross off at least one list item

Form hackerspace group (DONE March 7, 2012)

Obtain a space

Prepare Space and Organization for prime time (Projected Spring 2013)

  • Outfit the space - See Wishlist
  • Raise ~3-6 months of savings by charging membership
  • Raise money to cover start-up budget through fundraising

Create new mailing lists, one for the general public and at least one internal one for members only.

  • Retire the current southsidehackers@googlegroups.com, or recycle it as the public list
  • Option - a separate mailing list for the Board a la PS1
  • Option - decide what to do with our MailChimp account. We could retain it to send newsletters on a regular basis, for people who only want to hear from us once in a blue moon (vs the public list, which would be noise).

Make more solid decisions on how @sshchicago.org emails work.

Streamline use of Google products - G+, Drive, Email, Calendar

Delegate people to fill some important roles

  • sysadmin - for the VPS and later internal hardware Chris
  • public relations - for managing social media accounts, the newsletter and fielding direct questions to us Vlada
  • web designer - someone to make a pretty website and maintain it

Have a public website that doesn’t serve questionable content This wiki, for now.

Make use of the mediawiki again for documenting things semi-publicly

Give option to pre-pay membership for several months ahead. Incentive: discounts

Utilize Mozilla's Open Badges