Dialogue about collaboration in a political movement

< Collaboration at Volt
 * Dutch: Dialoog over samenwerking bij Volt
 * Team: Team collaboration

Introduction

 * In Q4 2019 some Volters are having a dialogue about collaboration at Volt.
 * On this page you can find some of the questions that came up in this dialogue.
 * We also want to give some advise to countries. The advice is that it is probably smart to experiment with Workplace, although we are looking to altnernatives for Workplace. Another piece of advice is that it is probably smart to start a pilot. A suggestion is to start a collaboration-pilot for sustainability and healthcare.

Questions

 * Terminology:
 * How are we going to call a collaboration of people: Groups, policy teams, movement, teams, topic teams, theme teams.
 * Policy teams:
 * Can a policy team be a seperate group?
 * Is creating a policy the highest goal of a Volt team? If not, what other goals can a team have?
 * Naming conventions: Do we want naming conventions for groups on Workplace?
 * New groups
 * Can every team of Volters start a new group?
 * Should a team ask for approval before they can start a group?
 * Movements
 * Some Volters are thinking about an experiment around public thinking.
 * They want to start a movement on Part-up (www.part-up.com) because we don't want to allow non-Volters to get access to

Process the following
Expertise: We (Volt Barcelona) are making approaches to other cities of Volt Spain and Europe to program joint events and / or work together from the work teams! Our idea is to create a "badge" (digital) that celebrates and makes visible this type of collaborations (something like "twin cities" in Europe), because we firmly believe that sharing knowledge and experiences is the spirit of Volt Europe, as a pan-european party!

On our mind

 * At Volt, but also in the R2 community you have a lot of volunteers that want to share their thinking and doing power.
 * We use tools like WhatsApp, Workplace, Trello to facilitate collaboration.
 * When we talk about collaboration we probably make a difference between the aim of the collaboration.
 * For instance the more you go to the left, the more control the strategy team of Volt has. Volt has less control about activities that are going on in society. Volt will probably focus on creating policies and train the candidates. But Volt also wants to be a movement. Volt wants to facilitate initiatives from people, like Ping Ping, an initiative of the city of Amsterdam to train the financial skills of young children.



Teams
Initiatives are setup and executed by teams. See Volt teams.

R2 wiki

 * The R2 wiki is a platform where teams can share information about their initiatives.
 * The R2 wiki is not only for Volters. All people are invited to share their thinking and doing power.