Examples of life-saving Team Charters

This section could use volunteer Team Leaders. When you
take on a team of your own (your own spouse, family, etc.), it
may be wise to understand the common elements of a team
charter:

    1.    Process
    2.    Goal
    3.    Team Members / Roles
    4.    Process Input / Output
    5.    Customer
    6.    Budget / Resources
    7.    Champion / Chartering Manager
    8.    Principal Owner of Process
    9.    Review Council
    10.           Time Frame / Milestones

Example Teams

    1. Food Team
    2. Water Team
    3. Shelter Team
    4. ESR Support Team
    5. Website Teams

Content Team

Web Team

Exodus Storm Rebuild (ESR) Support Team

Action Item(s):

    1.    Solicit a proven Team Champion*
    2.    Order and/or provide survival guide(s).
    3.    Adopt a charter and mission

Exodus/Storm/Rebuild (ESR) Support Team

Exodus - A quick read of Exodus can give you an idea why
this word sticks in a person's mind as being important. Storm -
stands for Global Storm Event. There are techniques that must
be followed to survive the storm event, also known as "the
Hour." Rebuild - stands for rebuilding civilization in yourr area.

Draft Mission Statement

    "Balance spirinancial investments with emergency
    preparedness. As the weather deteriorates reassess
    your community situation relative to your geographic
    location and take steps to adapt your ESR support
    priorities to prevent unnecessary losses to life while at
    the same time avoiding a disruption of local services or
    businesses."

Team members should build a local ESR support group that
consists of two sections, people who have something to share
and people who need something. One subgroup has
something of value while the other subgroup within the same
team posts their needs (e.g., East Clearwater family of four
seeking transportation north).

When the ESR Support mission statement is completed it
should clarify that at least three types of ESR groups can be:

    1)    Families that must exodus to a safer area,
    2)    ESR support groups that can become wise advisors
    as to local land that can host evacuees, or
    3)    A combination of the first two.

The ESR group can be distinguished in different ways;
advertising on the side of vehicles such as a van or bus, or on
roadside signs. The words should be spelled out in smaller
font "Exodus Storm Rebuild," and then the initials put beside
or underneath in larger letters.

For a shortened example:

    ESR Support

    East Texas

    (888) 123-4567

OR

    ESR Support
    Denver

    (888) 890-1234

An ESR support group may also be advertised as a unique
Internet group, or group of groups within the .org phylum. If
ESR mission issues were to be adopted by the Internet it may
also help to create a .esr extension similar to other existing or
proposed groups such as .com, .gov, .us, .xxx, and those sorts
of extension.

If your ESR support group is to be a group within an existing
phylum such as .org for example, then two remaining
subgroups will need to exist in order for the ESR support
group to operate properly.

Have and Need

The "Have" subgroup has ESR support. Likewise the "Need"
ESR subgroup advertises family needs within any given area.

ESR is something you prepare for now with meetings in your
home, church, or community, not just something done as you
sit in front of your computer.

    Plan your escape.
    Pick up the pace.
    Etc.

Classmates:

Remember, we've either rehearsed or actually done these
preparedness things a few times before (yahn!) .. Bottom line:  
Remember; one disaster at a time during rehearsals!
- - -

*Proven Team Champions can answer basic questions like:

    1.    What steps would you take to provide safe drinking
    water for your group if stranded in a primitive situation?
    2.    What is the most useful tool in a survival situation
    and how would you go about making one in a primitive
    situation?
    3.    How do you make clothes or shoes from plants?
    4.    How can you construct a warm, safe, and dry shelter
    in snow, sand, or forest wilderness situation?

Web Team

Hypothetical Web Team responsibilities would be to take a
simplified version of the present Word version of Cosmic
Community Awareness and process it into user-friendly,
hierarchically formatted (drill down detail) web pages. For
example, sections 1 and 2 may get split off and processed
first, then section 3 gets divided into guidelines, forms,
footnotes, benefits, or something along those lines, replete
with hyperlinks and photos.

Web updates may work best as a process until the site
content settles down, but can of course - and now is - manually
accomplished with more effort. The reason you see Cosmic
Community Awareness in a few pages now is due to a minor
stream of content being added to all sections. However,
except for team-related and chartering material, the site is
ready for hierarchical web layout (formatting) unless major
sections have to be added for reasons I am unaware of at the
moment.

The production URL would or could have a link to a
subdirectory with the web-formatted version, IMHO. Once the
content is 95% locked down this can be reversed: The web-
formatted version has a link to the R&D subdirectory with the
Word-formatted upgraded version, so users can check if their
area of interest has changed or been edited or upgraded. This
whole process used to be so easy with popular turnover tools.

Then the turnover dude would be chosen. His responsibilities
would be to ensure appropriate and accurate content. Or,
turnover can be automated somehow. Lots to think about so,
think about them - or send them to
webmaster@cosmiccommunityawareness.com when you
have a good suggestion or two. All ideas are greatly
appreciated and will be considered.
Teams