Objectives 2014

Overview

These are the mid-term objectives of our organization as of late May 2014. These objectives have been discussed on this Loomio thread

1) Revamp our website to make it language-specific, and for ease of navigation. See Website Upgrade Project for more details (in progress, Autumn 2014).

2) Consolidate the working dynamics for existing (and future) team members with clear guidelines, tasks, responsibilities and roles, offering a flexible choice of responsibilities and concomitant rewards based on individual, variable levels of engagement, and designed to be both accommodating and fair to all (in progress, Autumn 2014).

3) Develop the agency side of our project (GMC) as a protocol within the CIC Coop (in progress, Autumn 2014).

4) Working with our parent organization, the P2P Foundation, we’re continuing to research and develop new forms of international coop alliances in concert with las Indias, United Diversity and other players.

5) Build a wiki, including co-writing documentation for our collaborative tools, resources, style guides and other linguistic specifics, and workflow /Wordpress tutorials. This is to provide bases and standards for future Guerrilla Translators (individual team members) or phyles (spin-off collectives operating under our principles and name) (near completion, Autumn 2014).

6) Continue to develop an ongoing collaborative project focused on creating an international, networked book distribution system - including translation, promotion, production and distribution resources - working with a variety of Spanish and Latin American publishers and on-demand printers. This project is being developed in collaboration with author David Bollier, —using his book Think Like a Commoner in a Spanish translation as a "pilot" project— crowdfunding platform Goteo and publisher/distributor Traficantes de Sueños (in development, Fall/Winter 2014)

7) Launch a crowdfund with Goteo (Spain), to gain support for the above collaborative project (creating an international networked book distribution system) (Fall 2014)

8) Launch DIWOShop in collaboration with Diwo Coopand Freepress Coop, providing free translation and promotion services to ethical and environmentally-oriented enterprises. (Winter 2014)

9) Ongoing participation in the customized development of specialized value-tracking software for our unique economic redistribution model, in conjunction with Mikorizal Software, Sensorica and other players (Late 2014-2015)

10) Develop new target-language specific sister collectives (or “phyles”) of Guerrilla Translation/GMC, to build a multilingual network (2015-forward).