User:Kevin scratch pad

managing and implementing the word of the lord
some thoughts


 * word of lord - not to despise or ignore
 * Important to do it! So how will we know when the job is done?
 * testing - is it correct?
 * Initially - how do we apply it!
 * consider how to measure where now and how to measure where we need to be? (Perhaps the goal will be reviewed in Prayer when reached, but need to set some progress towards)
 * consider smart goals between the now and the target. Plan review dates.
 * follow a loop of Continuous Improvement.
 * It could be likely that when you have achieved it there will be no more word from God. Take this as accomplished. Explain to all that is is complete (Important in phases of "repentence" etc. that there is a clear end) Move on.

some leadership notes (Bill Hybels)
The next phase of growth as a leader is to develop other leaders. That is followed by the ability to share power with other high-capacity leaders. The question, then, is who do you call out for that level of leadership?


 * 1) Look for intelligence.
 * 2) Look for energetic people. They have to be able to energize others.
 * 3) Look for relational IQ. These are people that can get stuff done without hurting other people.
 * 4) Look for a win or die spirit.

A lot of pastors stop before sharing responsibility and power with other leaders. If you don’t do that, you become the growth restricting obstacle in your church. And, if leaders under you don’t have an opportunity to lead at that level, they’ll leave. Those people who leave typically aren’t “power hungry”–they’re “impact hungry.” [15:05:48] … http://tonymorganlive.com/2006/08/10/leadership-summit-bill-hybels/

What needs to be done
YWAM needs communication to happen well as a body to enable us to do the work of world evangelism. We need good communication in areas that are so essential that to not have it means we would die and/or significantly fail in our calling to reach the world.

Communication is always a process between two parties. A monologue is inferior to dialogue.

General Intention to communicate

 * Every location regularly strategises and monitors communication using tools like the Communications Matrix tool. Could be part of leadership test questions
 * Every leader sets aside a significant proportion (between 1/4 and 1/6) of their leadership time each week to address internal and external communications. Could be part of leadership test questions
 * Every Leader allocates financial resources to communicating.Could be part of leadership test questions
 * Every leader can say "I know what I am doing and what is expected of me in the area of communication", "I know where and how to find help", "Help is both offered and available and relevant" Could be part of leadership test questions
 * People choose to study us as a model of how to do it! Oh how we wish!

External Communication - Professional
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 * We communicate externally to converse with those we wish to help, who we want to serve by inviting them to help us and those people who want to serve God with us and the people who help them to do it! (Potential and ex-YWAMers, Churches, Potential students, Government, etc.)
 * Clarity in communicating who we are and what we do
 * Excellence in how we do it
 * Wisdom in strategy
 * Effectiveness in implementation
 * Each website passes the Evaluate your YWAM website test.
 * All Op Locs and ministries pass the Evaluate YWAM public relations test. Perhaps a YWAM staff PR and communication survey?
 * Each YWAMer is trained and understands their personal part in YWAM's PR Staff survey questions?
 * Test: Are you growing in real support/good will and/or numbers and/or finance? How are you perceived?

Internal Communication - Intimacy
Internal communication is needed to enable us to do the job of reaching the world better. Our values mandate us to be Relational, Decentralised and Team focused.

Thus dialogue (relating, listening, solving problems and agreement) is more important than monologue (information passing) as it the only way to properly relate to one another.


 * Communication solutions are in line with YWAM values (Relational/De-centralised and minimal)
 * Senior leadership provide broad forums for consulting with the mission for mission wide changes in policy. Could be part of leadership test questions
 * All Op Locs and ministries pass the Evaluate YWAM Internal communications test.
 * Every YWAMer can say "I feel a part of YWAM", "I feel connected into the wider YWAM body", "I feel noticed, understood and appreciated in my work by the wider YWAM body", "I understand what is going on in YWAM" Staff survey questions?
 * Every leader passes on information from the tier above in a timely fashion. This could be tested by tracking a GLT decision over 6 months and then calling regional leader, national leader, base leader and a staff member in the line to verify understanding.
 * Communication solutions follow good practice and e.g. face to face is better than video conference which is better than telephone which is better than written Staff survey questions?

Dialogue Tools

 * Book: Amazon (OOP) - Rediscover the Transforming Power of Conversation
 * "Mapping Dialogue" is an EXCELLENT free book produced by Pioneers of Change although there is a better introduction here. It is a freely downloadable PDF. Their aim is to disseminate it as widely as possible. Please help them by reading and passing it on! PDF There is a good overview of the principles at work in these listening tools and an evaluation of how and where to use them. The tools are explained in some detail.
 * I was struck with Appreciative Inquiry, Deep Democracy, Circles, Open Space Technology and World Café. We have got close to touching some of these tools at some times in YWAM.
 * interesting best practices pages for training http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Training_Best_Practices

YWAM's Nervous System will be healthy when...
In order to fullfil our mission of completing the task of world evangelism YWAM needs high quality communication expressed in two manners.

YWAM needs to communicate externally in order to partner with the body of Christ, to recruit new members and to express professionalism in our secular dealings.

YWAM needs just enough internal communications that the whole mission is adequately informed of relevant information, the common goals are reached, it's identity and values remain intact and that all members of the Mission can use their voice, feel heard and are able to hear from others.

What needs to be measured
Evaluate, set goals, act, re-measure: repeat


 * National teams understand and impliment this vision and repeat at next tier down recursively
 * External
 * Europe focus:
 * outgoing news
 * websites
 * brochures and publicity materials
 * press statements
 * reports
 * letterheads and stationary
 * staff personal representation
 * Stands and exhibitions

Measure the:
 * Quality of websites
 * Quality of recruiting
 * Quality of News
 * Effectiveness of training
 * Need for resources
 * Leadership commitment to vision (time, money, education)
 * Need lots of tools for self-evluation


 * Internal
 * Mission news
 * Mission leadership communiques
 * Mission Senior leadership consultations and dialogues
 * Mission data surveys
 * Mission internal evaluations and QA
 * Training

Measure the:
 * Voice of all: is it heard, do all feel heard, do all hear?
 * Voice of internal news and leadership comms: Do we know what is important? Can we reply? What can we ignore?
 * Survey data
 * needs?
 * Leadership commitment to vision (time, money, education)
 * Need lots of tools for self-evluation

Eurocom
Evaluating progress for Eurocom. How will Eurocom know how effective it has been?
 * Yearly evaluation...
 * Projects started and implemented
 * Survey of region staff asking questions each year about progress?
 * Perhaps implementing a survey of 100 staff, ministries and locations and comparing with a previous year?
 * Resources gathered - number of words published/papers etc. as tools for the mission?
 * Conferences and training times for staff and leadership (numbers through etc.)
 * Number of QA surveys of email response undertaken.
 * Consultations undertaken for bases

Preparing a Windows Machine for use
This article is mirrored here: Windows Computer setup guide Here is a recipe that I used recently to set up a Windows machine for use on our base.

First Steps

 * 1) If machine is Windows 95,98 or ME give up now! (They are no longer supported by Microsoft hence will be come more and more vulnerable to problems, will not work on newer hardware and wont allow newer software to run on them). Proceed if 2000, XP or Vista
 * 2) After checking all hardware is working right and installing drivers where needed...
 * 3) Create Administrator and Restricted User (RU) accounts
 * 4) Set Admin pasword properly
 * 5) Run Windows Update and set to update automatically
 * 6) For both Admin and RU log in and set Network drives.
 * 7) Set wallpaper of Admin to RED so it is easy to see which user account is which!
 * 8) Install an antivirus client (Clamwin http://www.clamwin.com/, or AVG http://free.grisoft.com/ - personal user only; you must buy a licence for Charity use.). Set up for automatic checks and updates.
 * 9) Install a firewall (optional)

Note Codes used here indicate
 * for Free software (Free as in 'Free Speech' - you will own this software and can modify, pass to others etc.)
 * for Zero cost software (Free as in 'Free Beer' - the software is not yours but you may use it but may not pass it on to others.)

General Setup

 * 1) Set up the printers - local and network
 * 2) Set up Software (productivity)
 * 3) * OpenOffice (with Java) http://www.openoffice.org/
 * 4) ** Add any fonts you want to use (like Orator)
 * 5) ** Add any Templates the office users will need
 * 6) * Open Clipart http://www.openclipart.org/
 * 7) * Firefox http://www.getfirefox.com
 * 8) * Flash http://www.adobe.com
 * 9) * Java if not combined with OOo above http://www.java.com
 * 10) * Thunderbird http://www.getthunderbird.com
 * 11) * Skype http://www.skype.com
 * 12) * Pidgin Instant Messaging (MSN, Yahoo, Jabber and more) http://www.pidgin.im/
 * 13) * Google Earth? Google Pack?
 * 14) Set up Software (creative)
 * 15) * PDF Creator http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
 * 16) * Scribus Desktop Publishing http://www.scribus.net (download page)
 * 17) ** Scribus needs: Ghostscript (Postscript) http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1897
 * 18) * The Gimp (like Photoshop) http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html
 * 19) ** The Gimp may need the GTK+ 2 Runtime environment (unless installed in Pidgin above)
 * 20) * Inkscape http://www.inkscape.org
 * 21) * Adobe Acrobat http://www.adobe.com
 * 22) * Realplayer http://www.real.com (Download the Free version)
 * 23) * VLC Media player http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
 * 24) * Audacity Audio recorder and editor http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
 * 25) ** To save to MP3 Audacity needs the LAME files: http://lame.buanzo.com.ar/
 * 26) Set up Software (Utilities)
 * 27) * 7 zip compression software http://www.7-zip.org/
 * 28) * jkDefrag - for those that like to Defrag http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/
 * 29) * Putty SSH and Telnet client http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
 * 30) * VNC http://www.tightvnc.org
 * 31) * WinSCP secure ftp and scp explorer type client http://winscp.net/eng/index.php

General Administration

 * 1) install the Backup tool and set up
 * 2) Plan and implement a regular backup

Note for Linux users
Linux users need only follow hardware and user setup stages plus the whole of General Administration. The software should already be there and Linux is already much more secure! Also most software can be downloaded and installed through the package manager in one operation.

=Staff Meeting 2007-02-06=

what do you want

 * place open for youth to hang out
 * for us to be a community that is open for youth
 * part of the office less office atmosphere but informal atmosphere - sofas etc
 * dining hall - eat together every day
 * coffee time together
 * time together at night from time to time - more than once a month
 * doing something together as group outside of the building, meal, cinema etc
 * more interest in each others families - e.g. if someone is ill - to call everyone together and pray
 * garden - good weather - barbecue outside
 * when spontaneous to remember those living outside the building
 * watch something like football together with friends
 * play game together outside work
 * is element already there about living in building - when fire occurred people there
 * - warning - need to support one another when sick - be more aware
 * don't assume that someone else is doing things - re illness etc.
 * take someone else with you -
 * more communication
 * informally communicate
 * take time to be with one another
 * as long as communication is not done then community does not happen
 * Helping one another, for example, taking shopping up the stairs
 * Sharing family life, singles can be included in a family and also families could be be helped with babysitting
 * More praying together
 * Taking initiative
 * Inclusivity, bringing people in
 * Sharing resources for example cars, DVDs, guitars!
 * Self pity hinders community
 * Especially when people are sick though it is hard for them to keep their spirits up
 * Open house for Brandes but they also like to be invited to others!
 * We have talked a lot about needs but we also need to to think about the oil in the gears. WE need to talk about * what we can and cant do....so that we feel that we can be accepted in our limits,  Therefore we need to dare to be open with our needs  Wait before confronting if you are still angry. These are all things we need to learn,

How can we actually do this?

 * boundaries....give a call on the phone first,,, give people the freedom to say no,
 * Spontaneity also enables people go deeper in relationship
 * We need to know each person's boundaries but don't be afraid to give it a go and make mistakes
 * Don't be afraid to say no
 * Try to keep work issues to work time and then that person's free time really is free

Prayer:
 * Have automatic tendency of prayer because we often say we need pray but we don't pray straight away when they are very important. Don't wait......and then forget
 * more times of sharing needs and praying together as staff meetings
 * Weekends away: need to pray for one another. Once a year is not community it is an event.
 * Have I prayed and encouraged somebody this month?

Caring:
 * Do I want to give someone time?
 * Am I going to give time to these people?
 * Do I know how supported they are?
 * Are they in need or difficulties?
 * Are you being honest with your needs which would make activities difficult?
 * Difficulties when people have different timetables to have time together
 * Remember to not bring work into free time
 * Do people have the energy and capacity for community...people have different needs

a good idea in its own right

 * Need to make prayer stronger around our corporate vision statement on reaching Brussels which will create community and spiritually covering one another so that we don't feel easily overwhelmed and discouraged.

=Financial Guidelines for leaders=
 * Leaders are advised to lay aside some reserves each year
 * Ministries are expected to be generous and should give some proportion of income
 * Ministry leaders are responsible to ensure they bring in sufficient income to cover their expenses
 * Ministries need to make some contribution to the central budget of the base to cover costs. This should be negotiated annually and will vary from ministry to ministry.
 * Each year you must provide a budget or a 5 year business plan (annually adjusted)
 * Make sure you are not more than one month away from data entry
 * YWAM will not offer out VAT status to reclaim TVA on another organisations/ministries behalf. Only ministries with TVA status are allowed to reclaim incoming TVA.
 * You are not allowed to go overdrawn
 * You are authorised to spend up to 250 euro if the money is allocated in the budget
 * You must ask permission from a BLT member to spend over 250, even if it is in your budget
 * When making purchasing decisions for items over 150 two quotes must be sought and taken to BLT members for approval
 * All loans must be approved by BLT before action is taken to accept any money. To give approval or loans and contracts BLT needs to see
 * an up to date budget and projection of income/expenses for next year
 * Loans are for capital expenses and improvements not for cashflow.
 * clear justifications for the loan (has to be capital not running costs)
 * Commitment by leadership for the term of the loan
 * A draft loan agreement drawn up on letterhead detailing the amount of loan, terms, and repayments of the loan.
 * All contracts must be approved by BLT if over 250 euro's per year.
 * Large contracts will require similar evidence to loans
 * BLT will require a meeting at least once a year with ministry leader to talk through ministry and financial aspects of ministy.
 * If ministry leader is unclear on what to do with financial issues then they must discuss with a BLT member.

=Linux Printing with Canon LBP1120= This recipe is combined from two Ununtu sites, one in Russian!
 * http://v0xel.wordpress.com/2006/05/23/canoon-lbp-1120-on-ubuntu-510-how-to/
 * http://forum.ubuntu.ru/index.php?PHPSESSID=8f6ad783355646a6ce599bbec7e5cef0&topic=5082.0

Files
You’ll need the latest cndrvcups-*.rpm (official drivers for Linux) from Canon’s support site. I’ve used cndrvcups-capt-1.30-1.i386.rpm and cndrvcups-common-1.30-1.i386.rpm. Alien & other libraries In order to install rpm’s on Ubuntu, you’ll need alien, so if you don’t have it installed, install it with $ sudo apt-get install alien For the canon GUI, you’ll ned libgtk1.2, install it with: $ sudo apt-get install libgtk1.2

Installation
In the directory where you have downloaded the files, convert them to .deb by typing (short way): $ sudo alien *.rpm The long way is to type: $ sudo alien cndrvcups-capt-1.30-1.i386.rpm $ sudo alien cndrvcups-common-1.30-1.i386.rpm. This should produce two files: cndrvcups-capt-1.30-1.i386.deb and cndrvcups-common-1.30-1.i386.deb then install them with (again, short way) $ sudo dpkg -i *.deb or, long way: $ sudo dpkg -i cndrvcups-capt-1.30-1.i386.deb $ sudo dpkg -i cndrvcups-common-1.30-1.i386.deb Restart cups to load the ppds (you can try to restart it with $sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart but this is the better way to make sure it’s restarted): $ sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys stop Make sure the daemon is stopped: $ ps aux|grep cupsd If it’s not stopped, kill it: $ sudo killall cupsd Then finally start it again: $ sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys start These ugly steps are needed because the installation of the ccp backend seems to sometime mess up CUPS when it’s running and prevents it from stopping. Then create the directories and fifos needed by the daemon (ccpd) and the monitor (captmon): $ sudo mkdir /var/ccpd $ sudo mkdir /var/captmon $ sudo mkfifo /var/ccpd/fifo0 $ sudo chmod 777 /var/ccpd/fifo0 Edit the Canon config file so it works with Kubuntu $ sudo nano /etc/capt.conf and change /dev/usb/lp0 to /dev/usblp0

Installation and starting of canon printer backend
Replace the /etc/init.d/ccpd file with the following: $ sudo kate /etc/init.d/ccpd

DAEMON=/usr/sbin/ccpd LOCKFILE=/var/lock/subsys/ccpd PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin NAME=ccpd DESC=”Canon Printer Daemon for CUPS” test -f $DAEMON || exit 0 case $1 in start) echo -n “Starting $DESC: $NAME” start-stop-daemon –start –quiet –exec $DAEMON echo “.” stop) echo -n “Stopping $DESC: $NAME” start-stop-daemon –stop –quiet –oknodo –exec $DAEMON echo “.” status) echo “$DESC: $NAME:” `pidof $NAME` restart) echo -n “Restarting $DESC: $NAME” start-stop-daemon –stop –quiet –oknodo –exec $DAEMON sleep 1 start-stop-daemon –start –quiet –exec $DAEMON echo “.” echo “Usage: ccpd {start|stop|status}” exit 1 esac exit 0 Start the ccpd dameon. $ sudo /etc/init.d/ccpd start (You need to make sure this is restarted at boot!!!!)
 * 1) !/bin/sh
 * 2) ccpd startup script for Canon Printer Daemon for CUPS
 * 3) Modified for Debian GNU/Linux
 * 4) by Raphael Doursenaud.
 * 1) Modified for Debian GNU/Linux
 * 2) by Raphael Doursenaud.

Set up printer with CUPS
To set up the printer from CLI you will need to do this (if you want to use the GUI then install with a special backend of ccd: ccp:/var/ccpd/fifo0. Call the printer LBP1120

Otherwise: $ cd /usr/share/ppd/ $ sudo ln -s /usr/share/cups/model/CNCUPSLBP1120CAPTK.ppd Then make your new printer... $ sudo /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p LBP1120 -m CNCUPSLBP1120CAPTK.ppd -v ccp:/var/ccpd/fifo0 -E

Register printer with Canon's backend
Register the printer with canons printer backend ccpd: $ sudo /usr/sbin/ccpdadmin -p LBP1120 -o /dev/usblp0

Testing
First step: Simply issue the following command: $ sudo ccpdadmin You should see your printer listed, with status.

Second step: Usage: ccpdadmin [-p Printer-name -o Printer-dev-path] ccpdadmin [-x Remove-Printer-name]

CUPS_ConfigPath = /etc/cups/ LOG Path       = None UI Port        = 39787

Entry Num : Spooler   : Backend       : FIFO path             : Device Path   : Status [0]   : LBP1120   : ccp           : /var/ccpd/fifo0       : /dev/usblp0   : Issue the following command as the gui can offer some useful help. Make sure printer is switched on and plugged in! $ sudo captstatusui -P LBP1120

Congratulations! It should now be working well!