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Projects overview
A project is a task or collection of tasks that achieve a goal that satisfies an identified need.
Projects defined
Projects are defined by
- a steward, who is the responsible person for facilitating the completion of the project,
- a brief need statement, concisely identifying what need will be satisfied by the project,
- a more detailed description statement, outlining the proposed method and means of completing the project,
- a goal or deliverable, the concrete project outcome that satisfies the project need,
- a Timeline, schedule, or end date, which links deadlines or milestones to project tasks or phases,
- a Plan, a checklist of tasks that typically happen in sequential order to complete the project,
- a list of Related/Prerequisite Projects, (if any) with links to related and/or prerequisite projects,
- a Financial budget that lists estimated expenditures, and
- a Labour budget that lists estimated labour, broken down by skills and/or persons.
Creating a project
Go to the project template page, edit it, copy all the text, create a new page, paste the template text in, and edit appropriately.
In addition to a wiki page, a project record must be created in the database in order for time and expenses to be logged against it. Contact the Communication steward when you create a new project so the database can be updated. You will then receive a project ID number that, when plugged into the template on your new project page, will automagically display labour and vehicle use billed to the project.
Projects may be within an individual steward's budget authority, or the necessary financial outlay for a project may be agreed at a Business meeting. Projects that have been agreed at a meeting should have the template {{agreement|date}} at the top, where date is the date of the meeting in which the agreement is made, in the format "YYYYMMDD" — it will then show up as a link to the proper meeting minutes.
Completing projects
A project is deemed completed when
- the project goal has been attained and the project need is satisfied,
- the financial expenditures and income are realized and reconciled, and
- the labour expended is accounted and optionally allocated to co-op shares or paid out in cash.
When complete:
- the category for the project is changed from [[Category:Projects]] to [[Category:Projects, completed]].
- there must be a section called ==Final accounting== summarizing income and expenses. Contact the Finance steward for final accounting information.
Projects in process
Following is a table of projects in process, followed by a table of completed projects. Click on any project name for complete detail. Projects that have been edited recently are at the top by default — click on the icon next to any column name to sort by that column, either ascending or descending.
| Project | Steward | Need |
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| Projects | Members and others need to access the current list of open EcoReality projects and their codes, in order to complete their time logs. | |
| Activities | Members and others need to access the current list of activities and their codes, so they can complete their time sheets. | |
| Woodshed extension | Jan Steinman | The current wood shed is totally inadequate for full-time heating needs of both houses. Storing outdoors, under tarps, is sub-optimal. |
| Wood heat for 2152 | Jan Steinman | The newer house lacks a useful renewable heating system. The fireplace insert has limited capacity and a proper hearth, and will not heat the downstairs effectively. |
| Campground | Jan Steinman | * To provide facilities necessary for summer camping for students and visitors. |
| Outdoor kitchen | Jan Steinman | For summer events with larger groups, we need an outdoor kitchen. |
| Road buffer | Jan Steinman | The visual, noise, and atmospheric pollution from Fulford-Ganges Road is a constant drain or our collective psyches. We fear for children wandering out on the road. It keeps us from planting things that we think might pick up pollution. Visitors and prospective members mention it as an eyesore.
From the other direction, it is like living in a fish bowl. We find ourselves being unduly influenced by individual and collective perceptions of what others see. We need to keep a good public image, yet without being facetious or shallow about the strictly visual aspects of public perception. We want to be able to have a mess now and then, without worrying about what the greater Salt Spring community thinks about our mess. |
| Outdoor showers | Jan Steinman | * To provide shower facilities necessary for summer camping for students and visitors. |
| Emergency power | Jan Steinman | When the electricity is out, we have no water, and the yellow house has no effective heat. |
| Biodiesel processor, v2 | Jan Steinman | Install and make operational the Sharp Road processor at the Fulford site. |
| Building extension | Jan Steinman | For additional covered/sheltered area, not necessarily heatable. |
| Composting toilets | Jan Steinman | We need a number of composting toilets:
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| Arbors | Jan Steinman | The summer sun comes beaming into the kitchen and dining room, making things a lot hotter than they need to be. |
| Permaculture design course 2010 | Jan Steinman | * To further educate ourselves and the general public about the practice of Permaculture.
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| Sustainable Food Education Event for SFU 20090612 | Shannon Cowan | EcoReality needs public outreach and education as part of its vision. Simon Fraser University course students are seeking a field trip overnight and hands-on learning experience for the course "A Semester in Food" about food policy, food sovereignty and local sustainable food production and lifestyle. |
| Labyrinth | Carol Wagner | The need to feel grounded and connected to the earth. |
| EcoReality land purchase trust project | Jan Steinman | This trust (The Trust) is established for the sole purpose of collecting funds for the purchase of land for EcoReality Sustainable Land Use and Education Cooperative (EcoReality Co-op) in a manner that mitigates risk to the collective settlors/beneficiaries of the trust. |
| Enterprise resource planning system | Jan Steinman | To track project progress milestones and deadlines, and to allocate income, expense, labour and other resources to profit-centres, EcoReality needs an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that allows collaboration, transparency, and timely reporting of all project data. |
| Project start | User Name | A sentence-long description of the need your project fulfills goes here. |
| Strategic metaplan | Jan Steinman | EcoReality needs clearly communicated, long-term planning that is a cooperative process, the outcomes of which may easily be understood by all. |
Completed projects
Abandoned projects
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