Status of FECT Trello Boards

For the Trello Boards, we have boards for

FECT Tasks

which is now current

and I have been cleaning out the boards for

Maldives
FECT-IT
Re-Org
FECT-Inc
FECT-HR

and added a board for

Tropical Climate


We already have boards for

Data

Finance
AWWA web

and of these, I shall try to get the Data board updated.

Online Collaboration Tools

In the absence of a dedicated collaboration software, and institutional archive, we need to try to do better with what we have. Eventually, we shall get there.  Something like basecamp.

For a calendar - FS is tasked with setting up a google calendar eventually.

For file storage we had used dropbox and gdrive - which we have not organized that well lately - and we shall continue to work on that incrementally.

For work management, we have Trello and we need to have a way to do Gantt Charts online.

For knowledge management, we have internal blogs and OSF/wikis to which I have invited some of you. The purpose of this along with the OSF boards (that is for research projects and also maybe a way for us to have wiki pages) is to move the discussions out of email - so that we can organize things effectively so that information contained can be useful for us as we forget about old topics and for any new person to come along.

Internal Blogging at FECT

After thinking about it quite a bit, I am proposing the following ways to get the Blogs working again and expanded. The internal blogs we already have are for

fecthr.blogspot.com

fectit.blogspot.com
fectorg.blogspot.com
These three blogs are intended to capture discussions around HR issues, IT, and organizational issues. 



The recent changes are to introduce two new blogs for

1. SOP  - fectsop.blogger.com

which shall be populated with our Standard Operating Procedures - this is something that AN is in charge of.

She already has several postings ready to go and she shall put this up. The advantage of doing this via blogger is that we can all contribute and edit and update and later we can convert.

2. Strategy - fectstrat.blogger.com

which shall be populated with Strategic Planning Matters (Recall this is one of our categories in the Re-Org).

This can have such longer term things as envisaged in the FECT re-org for this category = about plans for FECT accreditation, organizing new offices, work overseas



and a blog for

3. Tropical Climate called

tropclim.blogspot.com


which shall be used for Tropical Climate matters yet to be determined.