Mini Collective
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A Mini Collective is a short-term Collective, with a small number of participants and a strong focus on one project.
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Why?
Advantages:
- with less people you get more done
- cheap
- a focused group creates greater collaboration and reduces time spent justifying ideological agendas
- low overhead, reduced setup costs, increased efficiency
Where?
- It could be held at a CouchSurfer's home.
- Europe in summer is probably a great part of the world to hold Mini Collectives. People on holidays could leave their place in safe hands with focused hitchhiking CouchSurfers, or could even be hosting a Mini Collective while participating. People can donate their place and/or food specifically to get bugs fixed that annoy them or even to have new features implemented.
Who?
A mini-collective is focused on a specific goal and therefore the group would be best comprised of individuals who understand and can achieve this goal.
Qualities of collective participants
- Focus' on the CS Mission, commits to keep all work aligned with goals specifically serving the mission.
- Works smart not hard, creates and adopts practices to improve work processes, accomplishes work in ways that maximize productivity and available resources.
- Communicates compassionately, Respectfully assertive, offer positive suggestions and opportunities, acts with integrity, adheres to high standards of personal and professional conduct, honest, genuine, level-headed, rational, emotionally balanced.
- Respects the organizational structure, agreed upon process and procedures, adheres to CS internal rules (NDA, policies, core values, etc.), responds positively to change, showing willingness to learn new ways to accomplish work, respect for community relationships, partnerships, and resources, creates backup contingency planning (has job covered by another in emergency situations).
- Seeks knowledge for personal and group growth, ability to meet basic needs--physiological (food, sleep, etc.), seeks out new information that will improve self and CS, ability to take criticism constructively, feedback as opportunity for growth.
- Practices discipline, Stays on task, understands time availability/management (committing to the right amount of work, under promising and over delivering), accountability (ability to deliver promised results), responsive and timely, aware of personal limitations of skill or knowledge, humble, finds answers and delegates.
- Works as a team member, Interacts effectively and builds respectful relationships among individuals and in teams, respect for group consensus above individual ideology, unites and brings people together (avoiding "us against them" situations at all costs), inspires other group members to achieve great results, expresses appreciation and acknowledgement, employs the right group decision making processes.
