• The Icarus Project Organization Wiki

  last modified January 26 by willhall

The Icarus Project is creating a new culture and language that resonates with our actual experiences of “mental illness” rather than trying to fit our lives into a conventional framework.

http://theicarusproject.net


Welcome behind the scenes at the Icarus Project! We need your collaboration.

We're experimenting with tools to make us transparent, accountable, participatory, and democratic, while also being effective.

This Open Plans site is a wiki for easy management of documents and information. It is maintained by the Icarus organizing collective and staff to provide transparent records of how we make decisions, spend money, and work together, and to make it easier to be involved in Icarus.

We encourage everyone who wants to be involved with Icarus to join or start a local group in your own community. Check our Community page on the site, email us, or go to the Local Organizing section of the Discussion Forums to find people in your area.

You can get also involved with Icarus intergalactic by:

  • taking part in our national organizing discussion forum topic,
  •  familiarizing yourself with what's on this wiki
  • checking out our budget and staff meeting minutes,
  • reading our email archives,
  • getting on the icarus-organizers email list,
  • and being part of our monthly conference calls.


One thing you will learn quickly is that Icarus is a shoestring operation run on inspiration and vision. We get a lot done and we're involved in a lot of work, but we're also sometimes confused, disorganized, disoriented, chaotic, and frustrating to deal with. Democracy isn't easy -- try it! While we' re working hard to hold down the basics, we're also forgiving and accepting of our chaotic and wild sides, sides that just don't want to fit in to the standard mainstream way nonprofits try to operate.

Join the discussion forum for Icarus organizers - local and national.

Join the monthly conference call for Icarus organizers (email admin AT theicarusproject.net for the password): http://www.openplans.org/projects/icarusproject/how-to-join-the-conference-call

Read the archive of our icarus-staff email list here: http://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/icarus-staff

Read archive of our icarus-organizer email list here: http://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/icarus-collective

If you are organizing with us and want to be on the icarus-organizer email list, just email admin(at)theicarusproject(dot)net and we'll set you up. Also, you are on the collective, a contractor, or organizer and need access to edit these pages, just email admin(at).

Note that these email lists are not always 100% functioning given the chaotic organizing flair that is the Icarus trademark. Email us for clarification on what's up at  the moment. There are a lot of emails up there, though, and you can get a sense of the history of the organization by spending some time reading them.

 Here's what's on this Wiki. Some of it might be shamelessly out of date or missing, but we do what we can to keep things updated. If you have questions, again the thing to do is to hang out in the Local Organizing discussion forum or send us an email.


A note about saving files:

It's important to always name your files with the complete content and a date. Use keywords, like Icarus_budget_11-06DRAFTMyEdit.doc. This way you can always SEARCH for your document on your computer, rather than always having to make sure they are in the right folder. Use keywords to name files with searching in mind.

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