Goals Q1 2022

The sections and tables were based on the roadmap document. The goals were initially envisioned to be a bit more than half way to the "one year ambition" in that document.

For context, the codebase stewards Q4 2021 goals can be seen in an extra column in some sections.

In finding answers to the questions raised by the belastingdienst, our own awareness was raised about gaps in our own sustainability. A new secition "Operational excellence" is added. Imagining onboarding remote administrative staff further highlights gaps in our documentation of our own processes.

A central theme emerging from the first Goals Q1 2022 session is to consider how to use the non-co-located time in Q1 to strengthen our organization's process/workflows, creating a more solid base from which to work in Q2 and beyond.

Growing the public code ecosystem

Awareness

One year ambition Q1 2022 goal
Build out media production capacity Figure out a way to host video files for archive
Begin producing library of media assets: videos, whitepapers, podcasts Map out content and update About in order to produce at least 21 explainer videos and 1 leave-behind. Identify a topic for a whitepaper. Do 2 Let's talk about Public Code podcasts. Apply for appearance on FLOSS Weekly. Host OPEN HOUSE on Twitter Space biweekly to build a following and seed Public Code.
Develop coherent awareness-building strategy and voice Update existing brand content with Kehinde's discoveries and improvements (Debt). Review and revise brand guidelines to be at par with our narrative (Debt). Initiate the plans for Public Code International Summit

Partnerships

One year ambition Q1 2022 goal
Define and build-out Partnership relations (Definition: complete see pull request, build-out is the items below)
International Partner at least one US/CA public admin
Create narratives of collaboration with partners in order to bring more interested parties in Not a Q1 goal (requires partner)
Provide firesouls with anything they need in order to advocate for us ~Spin-up process pattern repos~ (BV: figure out future support requirements, consider open development)

Memberships

One year ambition Q1 2022 goal
At least five partner organizations moving towards membership Define pipeline and activities in this "movement"
With one or more signing on as members at least one member likely to sign
Establish our first international field office to develop potential members, partners, and codebases done?

Tending to stewardship

Activities & Processes

One year ambition Q4 2021 goal Q1 2022 goal
Launch formal process stewardship practice 1. Clean up our own documentation 2. Have an outline of how a certification process could look like Have an outline of how a certification process could look like (JA)
Help a codebase that is spun off from the host organization become its own external non-profit stewardship foundation Identify a candidate codebase and establish first contact (claus)
Include on our website a visual and short explanation of what we do 1. Create a communication plan (including social media plan) about stewardship 2. Create explainer on importance of international ambition for a codebase Have a brief and a quote for a visual explainer of codebase stewardship / revisit and freshen up the explainer texts we have on about/case for support

Codebases

One year ambition Q4 2021 goal Q1 2022 goal
Determine how much capacity we want to invest in direct stewardship in 5 years Make a wishlist of types of codebases we desire for direct stewardship Estimate number of stewards required to directly steward that list
Develop pipeline for codebases to be stewarded by other organizations (work on documenting stewardship process above) ~~(~~not a Q1 goal)
Refine codebase routing/gating criteria for ongoing internal or external stewardship Document criteria we use to invest time in a codebase/community, check (and document) criteria we use to commit to steward a codebase and the citeria we use to exit our activities. Document any relationship to partner / member / funding opportunity (This one is done!)
Directly steward an international collaboration 1. Suggest stewardship to OpenFisca 2. Create prioritized shortlist of codebases with international potential that we would like to steward, including USA/CA codebases Engage a category leader codebase for possible Foundation stewardship, or advance OpenFisca (EH), Does the Notify codebase need collabortion and stewardship? if so engage. Connect/re-connect to all codebases on the shortlist to get conversations started/keep them going(JA)
Positively impact the codebases under our stewardship Collect and list areas of impact per codebase (feed into storytelling plan) Get Omgevingsbeleid impact story

Community of practice

One year ambition Q4 2021 goal Q1 2022 goal
Engage another organization in using and developing our materials and practices Engage associations of public organizations Have at least one party use and ideally contribute to knowledge assets (suggest move to Q2 -EKH) Clean up and professionalise our GitHub repositories to allow for more effective remote, asynch and open working, as well as debug and restructure the About repository'
Organize a conference around a stewarded codebase community of practice Set a date and scope for the conference Set a date and scope (including funding) for conference, invite speakers and co-stakeholders. Also FOSDEM devroom
Get testimonials in our website (see positive impact on codebases, storytelling plan) Scan our podcasts for positive quotes
Regular stewardship community meetup group Make a plan (including goals, audience and formats) Make a plan (including goals, audience and formats, maybe a guest presents what they do?)
Create modular content to more easily adapt to different personas Define the different personas we want to use Make Define content which specifically targets an underserved audience. e.g.: civil servants who are stakeholders, or policymakers that has been tasked with implementing an open source strategy
Launch an online open source learning platform where we can host course material based on the stewardship framework Select platform and get it up and running, with the Standard for Public Code course from the City by City Academy platform ported to it Launch the platform publicly (JA, no rush)
Create guidance modules for codebase lifecycles, governance, and finance Table of Contents (and a shared understanding of the topic) Condensate and digest learnings from stewardship into discreet assets

Achieving sustainability

Philanthropy and grants

One year ambition Q1 2022 goal
A third > €1 million individual grantor Open conversation with at least 3 potential €1m+ donors
Participation in multiple fundraising networking events Identify one or more events
Respond to calls for proposal from at least 3 granting philanthropic organizations ~Get overview of interesting granting organizations and mechanisms and know how to submit for grants~ (BV)
Produce visual content for potential investors Get feedback on, update and produce new batch of Case for Support/partnership/donors. Draft script for introduction video to the Foundation (inspiration)

Structural funding

One year ambition Q1 2022 goal
Secure structural funding of > €250K from at least one regional or state public administration ~Proposal for Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken, Amsterdam, Vereniging Nederlandse Gemeenten~ (BV)

Operational excellence

Professionalize an exemplary open public organization

One year ambition Q1 2022 goal
A well administered institution with open and strong processes Ensuring that our processes are documented well enough that we can onboard a new administrative assistant
An open organization Remove information on About which is not accurate
(housekeeping) Do an inventory of our video files and make accessible for content repurposing
Before end 2021: policy plan
Before end 2021: multiple ventures contract
Before end 2021: book keepers, process
Before end 2021: gift paperwork
Before end 2021: general assembly to validate policy plan
Before end 2021: follow-up with members
Before 1 July: annual report
gh-pages for community translations
Select a repo