IT Administration/STRM/SectionOne/HowPERCVolunteersWorkTogether

How PERC Volunteers Work Together

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Authours: Tony Seles

Date: February 24, 2004

''This document describes the communication processes that exist when PERC groups work well together. More tips and resources can be located by volunteers at the Peace and Environment Resource Centre (http://www.perc.ca). Not everybody promotes what follows necessarily... What is the PERC communications policy? "Consensus" (http://www.perc.ca/vols/pvn/06-04-03/consensus.html) is the means that communication takes place here at the PERC. There is no mature beurocratic communications policy that is written down that disciplines people who mis-behave -- just consensus. (Tony is learning about this... and) Volunteers are encouraged to get educated about the PERC mandate.''

Useful Rules For Before We Start An Activity With the PERC.

1. Before doing any sort of volunteer work at the PERC, confirm your plans with the Owner of your task in Dot Project (http://www.perc.ca/dotproject).

2. Don't start any projects that don't exist already.

3. Send acknowledgments after receiving each message from others (i.e. by voice, telephone, or e-mail).ONE ACKNOWLEDGMENT TO THE SENDER ONLY.

4. Documentation about software that you have contributed to the PERC can be documented in a central repository if at all and can be found from a document located here  while you work on a new software system installation.

5. Please try and pre-configure, test, and consider training recipients for everything that you deliver to the PERC. For inspiration about ways you can build quality (software services) please check the "Why Floss" link in Section Five of this document. PERC's mandate is also a better source of inspiration for this.