Wishlist:
In no particular order. Priority as indicated. These, and more, are duties already being carried out to some degree and are involved in the running of this site. As stated elsewhere BrahmaKumaris.Info is being orientated to prioritize ex-BKs, exiting-BKs and to protect the friends and family of BKs and non-BKs.
Contact us on forum or privately. Thank you.
• Example letters to send to individuals and organizations - High priority
• Further cooperation in completing Murli archive - Medium priority - long term project
• General PR and outreach - High priority
• Mailing list duties - Medium priority
In no particular order. Priority as indicated. These, and more, are duties already being carried out to some degree and are involved in the running of this site. As stated elsewhere BrahmaKumaris.Info is being orientated to prioritize ex-BKs, exiting-BKs and to protect the friends and family of BKs and non-BKs.
Contact us on forum or privately. Thank you.
• Example letters to send to individuals and organizations - High priority
- A variety of "letters of concern" to be offered as templates for concerned individuals to send to individuals, VIPs and organizations which they believe the Brahma Kumaris are misleading according to their millenarianist and political agenda. All claims or statements within must be verifiable. A list of suitable letter for different purposes, e.g. political, interfaith, New Age, media etc.
Translations into all non-English languages welcome. See, here.
- Preparing and sending letters (not emails), information packs etc to relative groups, organizations and governmental and non-governmental organizations
- Fixing formatting, lay out and basic spellchecking of new and old posts; helping non-English speakers with their language skills to express themselves, tell their story and fulfill their needs.
2 hours per day increasing. Everyday.
- General article for submission to websites, newspapers and magazine; e.g. 'The Brahma Kumaris", 'My life as a Brahma Kumari', regular news releases and more specific stories. 800 words or 3,000 words
- Internationalising website. Translating fixed front pages, e.g. "BKWSU for beginners, topic summaries (see below), Encyclopedia articles.
- Internationalising BKWSU Wikipedia article, to be translated into all languages.
- Researching BKWSU finances in India and elsewhere. Data available from official bodies and other sources.
- Researching BKWSU in India, meeting and speaking with locals, documenting conditions finding copies of original materials. Networking with other concerned Indian groups.
- Researching BKWSU related news stories in India and elsewhere.
- Creating 'position papers' on BK related issues. 3,000 words maximum.
- Revising the forum for "classic posts" valuable to offer to newcomers, to be chosen for inclusion in the Classic Posts forum.
- Welcoming new users to the forum and assisting them with the software, finding topics, providing support.
- Helping others find already existing topics. Merging new posts of same topic into old already existing topics etc.
- Research and develop next stage fully incorporated "social networking" website allowing a single log for all users to all parts, e.g. forum, blogs, encyclopedia and downloads. Must be able to import data from Mediawiki, phpBB, Wordpress and HTML files.
- Next level webhosting for website and forum (currently unreliable shared hosting). From $59.00 per month.
• Further cooperation in completing Murli archive - Medium priority - long term project
- Scanning, copying to text and data inputting.
• General PR and outreach - High priority
- Writing to interested groups, individuals and parties, relative websites and forums.
- Producing artwork, graphics, cartoons etc and multi-media (video or slideshows) for use of websites such as Youtube, Google Video, Metcalfe etc.
- Fixing and technical support of current software, including researching solutions to problems and incorporating any useful additions.
3 hours per week. Full-time during upgrades
- Helping users use forum, bloging and Wikipedia type software for content creation here and elsewhere on internet.
• Mailing list duties - Medium priority
- Collating likely email address for BK related mail outs.