Types of documentation
-For things of constancy---------------------------------
Items / People Identification
- Album / catalog / directory type, with pictures. Image, Single text field and comments if desired (for updates)
One person in charge. Everybody else enter their inputs through comments.
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Option lists (polls, or lists of items, with desirability values)
- Choices with scores
comments for giving reasons for scores.
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Policies (basically agreements, or polls that have been executed)
Contains rules,
reasons for the rules (benefits, and disadvantages of not following),
and how to follow (and how to handle offenses)
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-For things of time---------------------
Ads (Desires, or agreements with a price tag)
What do the members like to do / what is good for the members?
(within the rules of course)
Price lists - items, and cost;
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Events (Actions, or desires with a methodology)
OK, we're doing it. Question is, how?
Calendar (or instructions) -
step 1, step 2, step 3
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Accounting (Systems - Actions with an accounting of cost and benefits / input and output)
post event documentations
learn from what happened
how much will/did it cost?
What did you give?
What did you get?
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-things of time and space---------
Ventures (Income statement - systems with budgets and goals)
is/was it worth it (financially or otherwise) or not, and why?
Accountability, responsibility
What did you hope to gain?
What were you willing to pay?
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Expectations / Reputations (Ventures with success rate)
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Evidence / Trust / Facts - (Expectations with fulfillment rate)
These are things that you (have learned to) look for and expect success
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- things of time, space & consequence
Achievement (Evidence with reliability)
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Conscience (Achievement with overall positive outcome)
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Purpose (Conscience with willingness to perpetuate positive outcome)
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Identity (Purpose with commitment)
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Day 1
The Arranque Files - Day 1
Sunday, Nov. 25, 2007
My dad asked me to buy some bread and noodles from the neighborhood bakeshop and a nearby restaurant. On the way home, I saw an old friend, a high school classmate, and thought maybe I could ask her for help on this community development thing. My monad told me she wouldn’t be interested. But hey you never know, something else might come out of it.
Her name was Precious Ann. I liked her for a short time in sixth grade but that’s not what I was there to talk about =). I asked if she wanted to help out in a community service / development thing that could be profitable. Well, no, she said she wasn’t interested in anything that needed going out and asking people what they needed, and their family business was all she cared about. But she could be interested in small things like donating goods. And that was that.
So, ok, here I am walking home. Whew, that was… oh, a waste of time really. =) But as I passed by the market, I thought my old friend Terence Alibarbar, another school mate and now the barangay (neighborhood) chairman, I thought I could discuss community development with him and he’d be interested. Now, this was one use of politicians. I was starting to appreciate politicians for the first time. =)
I went to the barangay hall, and asked around. He wasn’t there, they said it was his day off. Ok, I’ll try some other time then. But now I’m getting warm!!!
After that, I passed by the wet side of the market (where fresh fish and meat are sold) and saw a citizen. For the service institute, citizens are the people whose needs we are answering – the community people! He was a fishmonger, I think, and just sat there whiling the day away while a mother and child slept on the table beside him. (No, they weren’t his wife and kid – but a coworker’s) So I took the opportunity to ask this person what his needs are. He turned out to be one of the daytime workers who just slept on the sidewalk every night, right on the bare cement. He did have a house but it was too far and he rather not spend money going home every night. He said that what he needed is a place to sleep on – a mattress. There happened to be a sling chair nearby, and I asked “like that?” He said yes. My brain now raced for ways to give this man a comfortable adjustable chair that could double as a bed at night. Then I asked again, “What else do you need?” He said, “well, a blanket.” I now had a clear picture of what his nighttime situation was. I committed to provide this man and others like him what they needed, and I saw a market for very cheap bedding and blankets, and do-it-yourself adjustable charis.
As I walked further, I met one of the “tanod” or the neighborhood nightwatchmen. They work during the day as tricycle (public transportation, basically a bicycle with a side car) drivers. I asked him what he needed, and basically he wanted a ‘uniform’ for him and his fellow nightwatchmen. That, and whistles, and batons. Now I was looking for sustainable (a.k.a. profitable) community development ideas. I guess I’ll have to leave this guy’s requests to the barangay chairman, Terence.
Next, my monad directed me to a family of street vendors, who were packing up to go home, coz the market was empty and there was no point in staying. I asked if I could interview them, but they insisted that they were leaving in a while.
I spoke to another tanod. He basically repeated what the first nightwatchman said – uniforms.
Next, I noticed a store, one that has been operating for a long time and was quite profitable. I asked the sales lady where she got her merchandise. She said she got it from Divisoria (Manila’s market district), some she got from PureGold (a department store), some from sales agents that passed by her store. She knew where prices were lower – that was information that she gathered for herself, information that the rest of the community could use for the benefit of all. What would happen to the market if this information spread, I could only guess. Whatever it is, it’s either good, or we’ll deal with it – as a community.
I had an idea on how to get the blankets that the street sleeper needed – my father’s best friend was a master tailor, one of the best entrepreneurs in town. He had a handful of people in his shop, and his shop was always full of orders from students. I visited his shop. His wife was there, alone. I asked her what they did to the excess cloth they had. Would you believe it? They throw it away. It could be used to make disposable cloth wipes, a productive industry here in the Philippines. Now what I had in mind was I could sandwich the excess cloth between two man-size sheets of cloth, and sew everything together quilt style, and I got a mattress, or a blanket. One that would be cheap enough to sell to homeless workers.
Sunday, Nov. 25, 2007
My dad asked me to buy some bread and noodles from the neighborhood bakeshop and a nearby restaurant. On the way home, I saw an old friend, a high school classmate, and thought maybe I could ask her for help on this community development thing. My monad told me she wouldn’t be interested. But hey you never know, something else might come out of it.
Her name was Precious Ann. I liked her for a short time in sixth grade but that’s not what I was there to talk about =). I asked if she wanted to help out in a community service / development thing that could be profitable. Well, no, she said she wasn’t interested in anything that needed going out and asking people what they needed, and their family business was all she cared about. But she could be interested in small things like donating goods. And that was that.
So, ok, here I am walking home. Whew, that was… oh, a waste of time really. =) But as I passed by the market, I thought my old friend Terence Alibarbar, another school mate and now the barangay (neighborhood) chairman, I thought I could discuss community development with him and he’d be interested. Now, this was one use of politicians. I was starting to appreciate politicians for the first time. =)
I went to the barangay hall, and asked around. He wasn’t there, they said it was his day off. Ok, I’ll try some other time then. But now I’m getting warm!!!
After that, I passed by the wet side of the market (where fresh fish and meat are sold) and saw a citizen. For the service institute, citizens are the people whose needs we are answering – the community people! He was a fishmonger, I think, and just sat there whiling the day away while a mother and child slept on the table beside him. (No, they weren’t his wife and kid – but a coworker’s) So I took the opportunity to ask this person what his needs are. He turned out to be one of the daytime workers who just slept on the sidewalk every night, right on the bare cement. He did have a house but it was too far and he rather not spend money going home every night. He said that what he needed is a place to sleep on – a mattress. There happened to be a sling chair nearby, and I asked “like that?” He said yes. My brain now raced for ways to give this man a comfortable adjustable chair that could double as a bed at night. Then I asked again, “What else do you need?” He said, “well, a blanket.” I now had a clear picture of what his nighttime situation was. I committed to provide this man and others like him what they needed, and I saw a market for very cheap bedding and blankets, and do-it-yourself adjustable charis.
As I walked further, I met one of the “tanod” or the neighborhood nightwatchmen. They work during the day as tricycle (public transportation, basically a bicycle with a side car) drivers. I asked him what he needed, and basically he wanted a ‘uniform’ for him and his fellow nightwatchmen. That, and whistles, and batons. Now I was looking for sustainable (a.k.a. profitable) community development ideas. I guess I’ll have to leave this guy’s requests to the barangay chairman, Terence.
Next, my monad directed me to a family of street vendors, who were packing up to go home, coz the market was empty and there was no point in staying. I asked if I could interview them, but they insisted that they were leaving in a while.
I spoke to another tanod. He basically repeated what the first nightwatchman said – uniforms.
Next, I noticed a store, one that has been operating for a long time and was quite profitable. I asked the sales lady where she got her merchandise. She said she got it from Divisoria (Manila’s market district), some she got from PureGold (a department store), some from sales agents that passed by her store. She knew where prices were lower – that was information that she gathered for herself, information that the rest of the community could use for the benefit of all. What would happen to the market if this information spread, I could only guess. Whatever it is, it’s either good, or we’ll deal with it – as a community.
I had an idea on how to get the blankets that the street sleeper needed – my father’s best friend was a master tailor, one of the best entrepreneurs in town. He had a handful of people in his shop, and his shop was always full of orders from students. I visited his shop. His wife was there, alone. I asked her what they did to the excess cloth they had. Would you believe it? They throw it away. It could be used to make disposable cloth wipes, a productive industry here in the Philippines. Now what I had in mind was I could sandwich the excess cloth between two man-size sheets of cloth, and sew everything together quilt style, and I got a mattress, or a blanket. One that would be cheap enough to sell to homeless workers.
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