Join the project selection committee!

Thanks for being interested in joining the committee. The central task of the project selection committee is, of course, selecting projects; but more broadly, it’s a way to get involved in the overall Fix Planet Club organisation.

All our important documents are public on GitHub.

Expectations

• Project review - Willingness, ability and time to review projects and participate in project interviews. Estimated time committment: 4-5 hours per month.
• Community involvement - Willingness to join our slack community and involve yourself in discussions that pique your interest.
• Internal governance - Interest in participating in our general governance process, by participating in discussions on slack and/or GitHub around the overall project structure and operating procedures. Ultimately, responsibility for these decisions sits with the trustees, but pragmatically we believe that they should be established and discussed openly as a community.
• Term - The expectation is that you will be on the committee for at least 1 year.
• Advocate - A willingness to advocate for the program within your communities. A big part of the way we hope to reach diverse groups of people is through our committee members.

Criteria

You don’t need to be an expert to join this group. The essential conditions are:

1. You (roughly¹) agree with our operating principles and core mission,
2. You bring a perspective, set of personal experiences, local knowledge and expertise that isn’t already well-covered by our existing committee members. We value diversity, and are working hard to ensure this is represented in our committee make-up,
3. You are interested in, and like to critically rethink, the role that technology has in relation with the climate (and associated) crises.

Operations

• The total size of the committee will be limited to 15 people.
• Each project submission will be evaluated by a subset of the total pool of committee members (exactly how we do that is TBD, join the slack to discuss!).
• Committee membership will be reviewed by the existing committee and approved by the trustees, as a formality.
• Membership in the committee is voluntary (i.e. unpaid). While this may change one day, for now we’re prioritising the money for the the recipients of the grants.

Next steps

If you’d like to join, please reach out to us at fixplanetclub@protonmail.com, or on slack, and we’ll be in touch for a chat!

Other ways of participating

Note that it is certainly not necessary to join the project selection committee to otherwise have a say on how we operate. Our slack is open to all and we invite your particiation, as is our governing documents on GitHub. If you’re curious to see how we operate, then following along on either of these platforms is the best way to get an understanding.

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1. We don’t need you to agree 100%; in fact, it’s probably useful if you bring some alternative perspectives and challenge our thinking.↩︎