So much to do . . .

I've tentatively called the project RCX. It sounds good, is easy to remember, and remember I said about a public image and identity? It seems to work for me, and it's important to have several elements of public identity in place right from the beginning. The circle is made to subconscioulsy link this project to Precious Plastic without stomping all over their colour scheme and font, but it establishes a kind of common theme that should work for both organisations. I haven't as yet spoken to One Army or PreshPlast about this but it's on my list of things to do. If they object I'd like to just make all the logos square with the same colour scheme and font, but I'm already up to my ears in little tasks that I'm trying my best to keep on top of.

Which brings me to another thing, that of actually having people to move things along. I'm one person, I'm no longer a spring chicken, I have mild disabilities affecting my physicality and I can't do everything.

Although there are plans to monetise RCX at some stage and make it non-profit or a charity, (Now there's a task for someone to undertake already, work out what would work best for our purposes) for the moment I'm funding what I'm doing entirely out of my own pocket and not making anything from any recycled items I sell, that all gets ploughed back into more parts and machines and what-have-you for developing more for RCX.

So without further ado, here's a (SHORT...) list of things I can think of that people could put up their hand for:

• Foundation Consultative Working Group - yep, just even a small panel of people to bounce ideas and get ideas of the way to go with this project. I have almost zero idea about anything protocol / legal / financial / publicity related and would totally welcome a handful of people with who could put their knowledge to work and help in any way they can to get a proper framework going for RCX to become a thing. We'd all decide on format, roles, and maybe a decent Mission Statement and Plan. Then we'd dissolve that committee and enact the recommendations, and elect in officers for continuing that work and actually getting the RCX ball rolling.
• So secondly it would need Actual RCX Committee members, with roles decided on by the preceding WG, (and not precluding members of the WG from becoming committee members) and filled by the hopefully by then large pool of people we'll have.
• Web Workers - Once we've decided, we need a proper website with a forum for discussion, people to register interest and any local operations, a public facing website to inform and recruit, etc. I'm already bearing the costs of several websites that aren't related to RCX but have hosted a few pages on one of them, and registered domain names which (all the web page texts and control of the domain names) would have to be handed over to RCX to continue with. It can stay on my server but seems more fair if RCX as a group has control of all that.
• People with organisational skills - how to run the operation, finances, procedures - all the things that make an organisation.
• Anyone interested in starting a similar operation in their local community. All help that we have will be made available to get new operations going.
• Anyone interested in developing machines / techniques / processes / products for sharing with all the local operations. All knowledge will be shared within RCX and also under an Open Source license.
• Anyone interested to release all those intellectual properties via github / bitbucket / etc under the least restrictive license that still recommends share alike and attribution.
• Social - just social members discussing relevant topics and issues, and of course gaining social / local knowledge.
• Regular and one-time donors - helping by donating - whether one time or regularly is always welcome, and you can do so > here. <