= Proposals for 2011 Leadership Committee Meeting =

The regular operations of the organization include support, membership processing, server maintenance, and the day-to-day activities require to operate the organization.

The projects below reflect both proposed changes to our day-to-day work and project work that will build our organization into the future.  

The numbers refer to the [https://mayfirst.org/membership-meeting/2011/summary program goals identified by members at the September 2011 membership meeting].

 * Formalize and expand the support team (Goal !#1). The support team has been an ad-hoc group of mostly NY based technologists. To take our supoprt infrastructure to the next level, the staff organize a regular once-monthly face-to-face to take place simultaneously in three cities to start: NYC, where our core team currently works, Mexico City, to take advantage of the opportunities Enrique and the Laneta expansion has brought about, and Boston to bring in the technologists Ross has been organizing with around Occupy Boston.  

 Budget: $1500 for travel, so we can have face-to-face exchanges between cities.

 * United States Social forum (Goals !#4 and !#5). Continue our role on the National Planning Committee as members of the NPC and USSF leaders.

 Engage the National Planning Committee in its discussion of the coming Social Forum activities by supporting the proposal, originally made by us at the last NPC meeting, for regional/localized Social Forums with certain activities linked via the Internet as the format for the next US Social Forum.

 Support the People's Movement Assembly initiative when requested and where the specific PMA fits with our strategic iniatives.

 Continue to provide full technological and technical support to the US Social Forum process.

 * National and International policy and organizing work (Goal !#5). Complete the LaNeta convergence.

 Aggressively monitor the Occupy movement and specifically work to incorporate into our membership the current 58 Occupy movement members we have. Work on developing a special set of "outreach tactics" to get them to use the various MF/PL systems including our site's blog.

 Continue and reinforce our work in the Association of Progressive Communications and the World Social Forum's leadership bodies.

 Continue, when feasible, our support of the Palestinian movement and the world Climate Change movement through participation in its activities and support technologically when called for.

 * People of Color Techie Training program (Goal !#6). Launch the People of Color Techie Training Institute in 2012 as per relevant documentation and plan.

 * Build spanish language infrastructure of the organization (Goal !#5). Develop a special work team for English to Spanish interpretation which oversees the introduction of Spanish language versions of all MF/PL public documents, notices, advisories and FAQs on the "how-to" pages of our website. Integrate Spanish language options for all official wikis.  Maintain at least on "native Spanish speaker" on staff at all times.

 * Launch  MFPL member training and feedback series (!#2)

 Establish a series of special monthly member "basic training" events in person and on-line. Sponsor "member feedback" sessions every two months during the year at which all staff and at least three non-staff LC representatives will be present.

 * Define MFPL structure and decision making process (Goals !#2 and !#3)

 Discuss working group proposal for decision-making process which will be implemented as a "test" during the first part of 2012 and then submitted, after LC evaluation, to the membership for its approval.  Establish working LC group to develop and take up proposals for the organization's structure which will be submited to Members Meeting in mid-2012.  

 Set date and place for Members' Meeting