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v17 v18 1 1 = Reports = 2 2 3 * Mallory: International work, Policy wok. 3 == Mallory: International work, Policy wok == 4 4 5 5 '''Palestine''' The majority of my international work in 2011 took place on-the-ground in Palestine. I worked with a member organization Stop the Wall to build up their media, technology, and communications strategy to include youth, increase in international solidarity work, and social media. Through this relationship, MF/PL gained three key memberships from Palestine: Stop the Wall, General Federation of Trade Unions in Palestine (PGFTU) which is the largest union in the West Bank and Gaza, and the BDS National Committee (BNC) which is a membership organization comprised of hundreds of grassroots and civil society organizations around the world that support the Palestinian call for boycott, sanctions, and divestment against apartheid Israel. … … 23 23 While few lasting relationships have so far materialized from the rural policy work, future work in this geographic sector is fundamental to our national outreach strategy and our work with Indigenous groups. 24 24 25 * Enrique: Laneta 25 == Enrique: Laneta == 26 26 27 * Hilary: finance 27 == Hilary: finance == 28 28 29 I joined May First in April 2011 as an administrative coordinator/member associate. My early tasks have focused on implementing new accounting procedures and protocols, conducting all the financial bookkeeping/record keeping to more accurately track May First's finances, and helping to create and implement a new membership payment policy. 29 30 … … 38 39 MF/PL is not a commercial provider. But the idea of suspending groups for lack of payment can be viewed as the action of a profit oriented corporation. What we have tried to stress in communication with members is that the dues they are paying supports a membership model based on shared resources. In essence, members are accountable, not to a corporate entity, but to the entire membership as a whole. And like most memberships, when the terms of membership are not met on either side, that membership expires, as do the benefits of that membership which in our case include web, email, database hosting. But this raises important questions about what it means to be a member, whether or not current members share our understanding, if our current outreach tactics are effectively communicating with members and how we can use this opportunity to build and connect an active and engaged membership. 39 40 40 * Ross: support and occupy 41 == Ross: support and occupy == 41 42 42 43 Since the staff position of May First/People Link Support Butler has only existed for a few months, the parameters of the position continue to be developed and assessed. Such assessment is, in fact, one of the primary things I've worked on in this position. In the first month (October, 2011), we (primarily Jamie, dkg, and I) took stock of the current support volunteer strategy and re-modeled the ticketing workflow to allow a more targeted approach to managing a support team. Whereas prior to this, the support queue functioned as a first come, first serve, everyone's responsibility type system (a system that more or less translated into Jamie answering 95% of all tickets), the workflow we developed and continue to think through, works in a somewhat more targeted manner in which I handle the incoming support cue and designate a support volunteer to handle the given request. … … 52 53 This outreach/activism has also created the condition of possibility for understanding some of our own techno-structural problems with user interface and helped me grapple with some parts of our infrastructure that needs overhaul. 53 54 54 * Alfredo: USSF, POC techies of training, Occupy 55 == Alfredo: USSF, POC techies of training, Occupy == 55 56 56 * Jamie 57 == Jamie == 57 58 58 59 Since our membership meeting last Summer, most of my work has been focused on supporting our three newest staff members: Hilary, Ross and Enrique.