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2023-2024 NET Program Realignment (view source)
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Any organizational restructuring should imply a restructuring of resources as well. Though nothing is set in stone, we should prepare ourselves to have less access to resources in the immediate future, and also prop up the [https://friendsofportlandnet.org/ Friends of Portland NET] for fundraising more if, for no other reason, than a fiscal safety mechanism. ''However'', few teams are cozy enough with their neighbors to fundraise for their teams, and PBEM/NET needs to encourage a higher level of direct engagement with neighbors at the block-scale level. | Any organizational restructuring should imply a restructuring of resources as well. Though nothing is set in stone, we should prepare ourselves to have less access to resources in the immediate future, and also prop up the [https://friendsofportlandnet.org/ Friends of Portland NET] for fundraising more if, for no other reason, than a fiscal safety mechanism. ''However'', few teams are cozy enough with their neighbors to fundraise for their teams, and PBEM/NET needs to encourage a higher level of direct engagement with neighbors at the block-scale level. | ||
=== | === Revisiting the purpose of a NET ''team'' === | ||
Among the most significant change drivers, however, is a simple epiphany or two about NET. | |||
==== Centralized Deployments ==== | |||
In its history, NETs have never self deployed. To review: a NET self deployment is OK'd by PBEM when two key conditions are met: 1.) a citywide disaster is taking place; and 2.) regular communication systems are not functional. When those conditions are met, the expectation is that NETs check themselves/family/immediate neighbors to make sure they're OK. If so, they deploy to their staging areas and commence their Team Operations Plans. | |||
Only an earthquake, therefore, would ever prompt NETs to self deploy.<ref>...or an electromagnetic pulse (EMP). But in this stage of the conversation, I don't think it's particularly helpful to explore the horrifying implications of that. https://www.economist.com/the-world-if/2017/07/13/the-disaster-that-could-follow-from-a-flash-in-the-sky</ref> | |||