To build the teams that build a world changing Movement. The hidden power in every corner of our community, behind the achievements of every person and team. All success begins here. Tools: Getting Started Guide - Goals and Roadmap - Files - Join the Team
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Intro
Welcome! This is the nucleus of everything, all of our efforts to unite humanity to achieve a happier, friendlier and safer future begin with you here. Here (working with the Data Analytics team) we monitor every team and project, supporting all members and directing energy where its needed, when its needed, to reach the currently desired productivity levels to achieve each goal.
Mission Statement
Anyone, or any group, who share our vision and Community Values are welcome to join us. Your mission is to grow the capacity our community has to bring more peace and well-being to the world, through finding excellent new members and onboarding them into our culture and practices. Supporting and enabling them to achieve the dreams they had when they joined our movement.
Ethos
Positive and encouraging. Guiding members and shaping their contributions to achieve the aims of the hopeful mission they’ve embarked upon.
Introductions
- Visit the introductions thread and introduce yourself
Join the Team
Joining the team means other members can reach out to you when they want feedback on their work and suggestions, or to ask if anyone can help with a UX related task. If you want to be actively engaged you should join this team so we recommend everyone begins as a member, then if it’s not how you want to be involved you can drop out later.
Current Team Tasks
To find, discuss and post specific tasks click the ‘Tasks’ tab of the recruitment tag or the Human-Resources tag
Tasks should be broken into self-contained actionable slices of 30mins to 1hr so people from around the world can contribute in bite-sized time contributions, rather than excluding those who aren’t able to commit large amount of time - or allowing good intentions to take on large tasks which become a heavy weight to bare and push members to quit due to guilt out when they realise they have taken on too much. Smaller tasks can be strung together in stages, so if you want to take on a large task in one week just move all of the string over to ‘Sprint’ and assign them to yourself.
Please try to keep to the 30min - 1hr rule when posting tasks. If your task is large and you can’t break them up into smaller self contained tasks, then you can add [Discussion] at the beginning of the title so the team knows the task needs to be discussed and then broken into self-contained tasks. For example: ‘create a video to explain our project to the world’ is a big task so it would begin as a [Discussion].
note: some users are seeing this tab called ‘Board’. Its a bizarre bug we’re working to solve
Documentation
You’ll find template ads and posts which have been successful in the past, along with places to post them.
Everyone here is asked to maintain a best practice guide for how to achieve tasks, making it easy for others to follow and continue their work if they are busy with another task and to prevent losing time to working out how to do the same task over and over again.
You are very welcome to try out new ads and places to post. Please write up a record of the response each received to help others choose which to use or build upon in the future.
Cause Specific
We have many projects and causes. This is fabulous for your HR and Recruitment team as you can post a job ad to the same place a week, or even a few days after another post for the same skills. For example;
- Week 1: Reactjs Devs needed for an effort to solve world homelessness.
- Week 2: Fight climate disaster using your Reactjs skills
Both ads are going to bring devs into our meta platform (this one) where they will be working on many of the same issues. So we casting a wider net by competing with ourselves.
We don’t want to get banned for spamming so different ads and different accounts should be used for this. Especially on social media, i’m sure r/reactjs would ban us quickly if all these posts came from the same account and looked too similar, whereas they’ve been very supportive of our individual posts.
Target Groups
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Students who have lots of free time, are largely altruistic and looking for dreams to chase. Many have an enthusiasm to practice the skills they are using in the real world and become better at their chosen career. They often also want to base their coursework around tasks with us because they get professionals joining in to support them, and they have to do the work anyway so its great to see it realised and creating some good in the world. They can also point to the real world project’s they’ve build while studying when they enter the job market afterwards.
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Professionals in cold, meaningless industries. Many of our members join in because they want to use their work skills to do something good for the world, rather than just making their CEO richer. These experienced members are high value and excellent to have their skills applied to advancing our mission and movement.
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Nomads, Hitch-hikers, Freelancers. Groups who are always looking for fun activities and ways to meet the most positive and friendly people locally. Our Positive Action Activities and Gatherings Map are the most powerful tool ever created for meeting amazing positive and kind-hearted local people, and when they spread happiness together they advance our mission to bring peace and well-being into the world.
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Pro-active volunteering people. The type that are always searching for projects like ours to join.
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Summer Camps. Every year AmeriCamp, Camp America, Camp Leaders, BUNAC and CCUSA send millions of young adults to kids camps to run activities, and then rush to train them in one or two weeks when they arrive. If we partner with those companies, or with the Directors at individual camps, they can have their future staff create Positive Action Activities where they live using our approved activities. See them in action via the videos they create and make suggestions to help them improve as leaders. By posting activities on our Gatherings Map they gain experience leading groups in very similar activities before arriving. The camps and kids get better staff, and we attract members likely to have an abundance of positive energy, and also likely to want to carry on with our Movement afterwards. This is a high value connection.
Our Own Channels
- r/webdevjobs. Used to help web developers in our teams find jobs via a stickied post with their profiles and a message of thanks. Also as a pull mechanism to bring more developers into our community
- r/filmvideo_jobs. Currently inactive. Used to help video creators in our teams find jobs via a stickied post with their profiles and a message of thanks. Also as a pull mechanism to bring more video creators into our community
Team Culture
This is an open community where you can define your own role. To be most effective here we promote a culture of defining our own roles.
- Make your own choices on how you can best take action to advance the community
- Tell people what you are going to do.
- Listen to their feedback and ideas to strengthen your idea
- Find tasks others need help with by clicking the ‘tasks’ tab (this is also where to make your suggestions.
Workflow
Step 1. Click ‘Tasks’
Step 2. Assign a card to yourself, or create a new task
Step 3. Move it into ‘Doing’
step 4. If the task isn’t complete by 2 weeks please move it back into the list it came on so that others can tackle it. (note. it shouldn’t go in Sprint if its going to take you longer than 2 weeks)
Please use the Calendar
- Click the ‘Calendar’ tab and set times you want to contribute to our mission here
- Even if you change them later it is a huge help to set your intentions. Members who do this are always the ones who stick around and become important members of our community.
- Set a monthly, weekly or bi-weekly reminder in your calendar to repeat regularly
- Check out when others will be online and arrange collaborations and video meetings with them
Collaborating with other Teams
You may also want to involve other teams to help solve the task by adding their tag. For example: ‘UI’, ‘Graphic-Design’, ‘Copy-Writing’, ‘UX’.
If you need support from another team then your suggestion is probably not ready to be posted as a self contained ‘task’, so consider tagging it as a discussion and adding [Discussion] to the beginning of the title.
Its also often a good idea to tag their team in the post to get more eyes on it using the @ key
I expect you’ll find collaborations with the @SocialMedia team very fruitful for using their reach to get calls to join our teams in front of more eyes 
Learning
This community is a great place for learning a new skill. Read about Tag-Intersections to find out how to add the learning tag to the # tag for your skill to find or post:
- Great learning resources
- Others to learn with
- Experienced developers who want to support, mentor and offer guidance to those earlier on the same path
- Free or discounted courses to get qualifications
- Tasks posted suitable for beginners, and with experienced devs to check and give feedback
Other Rewards
Its definitely best to join in because you want to see the changes it can bring to the world, and be part of a fun, positive and pro-active community.
We also invite anyone who plays a significant role into our team page, and are enthusiastic to support you if it helps your resume building: Public Happiness
Everyone who completes any tasks will be rewarded with Public Happiness Tokens at launch. We don’t guarantee they’ll ever be worth anything, tbh they are an experimental tool to add more fuel to drive the vision. I’m increasingly confident though.
Monitoring Teams and Projects
(note: potential confusion could be caused here as our platform is currently still using categories until the Ruby on Rails team finishes updating the plugins required to switch to 100% tag navigation)
This requires a short read on tag-intersections. If you add the tag “team” to a skill or project you will be able to see the established roles and who has claimed them, or you can assign members to them. This enables you to have a reasonable overview over every team and project to help your planning.
More powerful tools are being built for you so you can monitor team/project productivity without having to view their boards manually, which will also make it easier for super star moments, like when a project is going to miss a target date but they haven’t noticed yet, and like a omnipresent hand you subtly put ads out or encourage more members to join that team and help them hit their goal without ever knowing you were the hero… or tell them how you’re amazing and solved it for them, either way is fine 
Keep it Groovy
Our efforts to create change are very serious, but our delivery is always positive, fun and cool.
‘If its not fun it’s not sustainable’ - Gary Lachance, The Decentralised Dance Party