Johan T – presents report
CLOSING REPORT C.A. WORLD SERVICE CONFERENCE 2018
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY REPORT
INTRODUCTION AND OPENING COMMENTS
Opening Comments
This has been a humbling and exhilarating experience for us. We cannot say enough about how grateful we are for this opportunity to do necessary work for the fellowship as a whole. We especially would like to thank all members of our committee, the members from the fellowship giving us great support, referrals, comments and cheers.
CAWS ITC statement of purpose starts with:
The purpose of the committee is to serve as a resource for the C.A. service structure in areas of emerging technologies. In addition, we facilitate and assist Areas and Districts in approving their local websites.
This makes our work broad and inclusive, just like our fellowship. We have included work spanning from Printing on demand, online templates, apps and website templates. It is interesting work indeed.
Melissa L – did introductions
We who are thankful of being of service are:
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Committee Introductions:
Johan T (Chair)
Audz C (outgoing Vice Chair &Secretary)
Robbie S (new Vice Chair)
Melissa L (new Secretary)
George M
Yves W
Jill E
Randy M
Wade S
COMMITTEE WORK THAT RESULTED IN MOTIONS
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George M – presented motion
MOTION to change the verbiage on Page 10 of the Information Technology (IT) Committee Workbook and Guidelines.
- The current WSO-supplied disclaimer must be placed at the bottom of the home page of the website (which is “Cocaine Anonymous is a Fellowship of, by and for addicts seeking recovery. Friends and Family of addicts should contact Co-Anon Family Groups, a Fellowship dedicated to their much different needs. The following link to a distinct
“Disclaimer Page” must be placed at the footer of the Area or District web site. The link shall be titled “<your area or district> Site Disclaimers”. This distinct page shall contain the following disclaimers:
1. Cocaine Anonymous is a Fellowship of, by, and for addicts seeking recovery. Friends and Family of addicts should contact Co-Anon Family Groups, a Fellowship dedicated to their much different needs.
f) The current WSO-supplied trademark statement must be places at the bottom of the home page, and any other page where the C.A. logo appears (which is: ´´This site Copyright © 2018 Cocaine Anonymous World Services, Inc. “C.A.”, “Cocaine Anonymous”, and the C.A. Logo are registered trademarks of Cocaine Anonymous World Services, Inc. All rights reserved.´´)
g) The current WSO-supplied copyright statement, This World Wide Web site <your website URL (Example: yourarea.org) > is a publication of Cocaine Anonymous © <your area or district>, Inc. All material, including, without limitation, trademarks, copyrights, and all other rights, presented or included herein, including all subsidiary pages, is registered, owned and / or copyrighted by <your area or district>. Permission is granted to download and store this material for individual, non-proprietary use only. All other rights are fully
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reserved. Cocaine Anonymous is not affiliated with Alcoholics Anonymous or any other, similar organization.
2. Some of the items contained in these pages are published with permission of C.A. World Services, Inc., but this does not imply endorsement of this website by the C.A. World Service Conference or the C.A. World Service Office. The information provided within this website is intended to be a convenience for those who visit our website. Such inclusion does not constitute or imply endorsement by, or affiliation with, the <your local area> Area or the Districts within.
3. We regret being unable to offer links to non-C.A. sites, due to our longstanding tradition of non-endorsement of outside enterprises, whether related to our goals or not. While we are grateful for all links from other Web sites, we do not endorse any product, service or opinion offered by any outside organization
h) f) Any Page containing quotes from copyrighted C.A. literature must contain the current copyright notice, and identify the piece being quoted [however, the books “Hope, Faith and Courage” and , “Hope, Faith and Courage II” and A Quiet Peace are NOT available for online reprinting, and are not covered by this provision]. The current copyright notice is as follows: “Cocaine Anonymous World Service Conference Approved Literature. Copyright © 2018 Cocaine Anonymous World Service Office, Inc. “C.A.”, “Cocaine Anonymous” and the C.A. logo are registered trademarks of Cocaine Anonymous World Services, Inc. All rights reserved.”
j) g) Area/District Newsletters, personal stories, audio and video media must be approved by the Area/District and the Regional Trustee before posting on the Area/District website.
k) h) When utilizing any of the following:
1. Mapping services for meetings and events (e.g. to give directions to a meeting location.)
2. Online payment gateways (e.g. for the purposes of collecting donations or payments for the events) the following disclaimer should be included on the same page and in close proximity to the link, widget or form:
“In the spirit of Tradition Six, C.A. is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution. As such, <your area/district/service committee> of Cocaine Anonymous and Cocaine Anonymous as a whole does not endorse and is not affiliated with <payment gateway/business name> or any of the companies and / or services offered on the <payment gateway/business name> site. Any links to external websites or services are only provided as a convenience to our members.”
Seconded
Trevor S – This was sent out in SR-14. Has this changed since then?
George M – No
Trevor S – Are there any objections to not reading into the mic? Yes
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Trevor S — Started to read it into the mic
Henry A – Parliamentary Inquiry – Is it possible to motion to skip the reading?
Trevor S – Out of order as it is no possible to un-read something once it has been read. (continues to read into the mic) Does the maker wish to speak to your motion?
George M – Not at this time.
John B – I am confused. It seems that says the trustee needs to approve anything that goes on an local website?
George M – Yes
John B – Is that new?
George M – No.
Trevor S – No, this has been there for a long time.
John B – Opps.
Jason L – I noticed it says ‘we are grateful for all links.’ It is nice that we want as many people to see this as possible, but can we take out the word all?
George M – That part is not actually new language. That is not something we are addressing with this motion.
Kevin M – The language in 1 and 3 that remains has been there for a very long time. I like the ‘all links.’
Susan B – Should our trademark phrase, ‘We’re Here and We’re Free’ be included in this document as well?
Trevor S – That should be referred to the WSBT.
George M – All of this is basically housekeeping.
Randy M – What was stated before was that all these disclaimers had to be at the bottom of each page, this now shortens all that and puts all the disclaimers on a separate page with a link to said page at the bottom of each page. Hope that clarifies the intent.
Trevor S – Prepare to vote.
Clicker Vote 16 – 137 for, 4 against, motion passed
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REFERRALS THAT RESULTED IN MOTIONS
None
REFERRALS OR ITEMS TABLED UNTIL NEXT YEAR; AND ITEMS THE COMMITTEE WILL CONTINUE WORKING ON THROUGH THE YEAR
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IT 2018-2 From Kerry-Jane G. CAUK Area (In-Conference)
I created this document as when constructing our Districts (West Country and South Wales District of CAUK) website www.casw.co.uk, I struggled with the approval guidelines as laid out in the ITC guidelines (and PI handbook as the information is currently duplicated there).
As a result, our CAUK delegates had not been aware of the WCSWD website launching due to me misinterpreting the guidance.
I believe this document (or something similar) might help and be a useful starting point/addition to the ITC Guidelines?
CApp
The WSCIT Committee is looking for your ideas and input on the creation of a Cocaine Anonymous Mobile Application. If anyone is interested in submitting ideas or helping with creating the application, please have them send an email to itcommittee@ca.org
We have a list of ideas from referrals and committee work on what content may be available within the application. This list includes:
| ● | Sobriety Calculator (referral) | ● | 12 Traditions | |
| ● | Find a meeting (referral) | ● | Vision for you | |
| ● | Pre-amble | ● | Reaching Out | |
| ● | Who is a Cocaine Addict? | ● | Meeting Formats | |
| ● | We Can Recover | ● | Link to CA.org | |
| ● | Serenity Prayer | ● Find events: district, area, or | ||
| ● | 12 Steps | international | ||
wordpress and database
The WSCIT Committee would like to include the following items on the wordpress temple and the database:
- Readings and meeting formats
- Read only pamphlets
- Clean time calculator
- Meeting in a pocket
- A function where areas could input their local meetings (time/area/location/meeting type)
REFERRALS OR ITEMS REFERRED TO OTHER COMMITTEES; WORLD SERVICE OFFICE, OR BOARD OF TRUSTEES
IT 2018-1 From Carey T. CAUK Area (In-Conference) (referred to WSOB)
A member has come to me, as the IT Chair for CAUK. and asked for this proposal to be put forward as a referral:
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That the Quiet Peace reading for the day be displayed on the ca.org website in a prominent location, so people can read it from the website.
The member felt that other members (and newcomers) would benefit from having this available. I explained to him that he would have to make this a referral, since it involves a change to the WSM and the IT workbook. The website was not working for him, so I am making it in his place.
COMMITTEE WORK – REFERRED TO THE WSOB
PRINTING ON DEMAND
The IT-Committee has during the last year has been working on a few issues under this topic and would now, with a warm hand refer this to the World Service Office Board. To clarify we would like to transfer the management of these issues to the WSOB. We do however make us available for any and all questions or help that the WSOB may require.
The issues we have discussed has been as follow.
Template for pamphlets – We have with a few people from the fellowship that has made printable templates for pamphlets that has been presented to the WSOB.
Literature for printing, We believe that a service of Printing On Demand for HFC, HFC II and AQP and distribution of the same would potentially be beneficial for the fellowship.
Chips and memorabilia storage and distribution, We believe that a service of this kind would potentially be beneficial for the fellowship.
REFERRALS THAT DID NOT RESULT IN MOTIONS
None
NEW COMMITTEE STRUCTURE AS OF THIS CONFERENCE
(along with name, email and telephone numbers please)
| Chair Johan T | tangen@gmail.com | 46 707972100 |
| Secretary Melissa L | melsugarmouse@gmail.com | 1 405 532 9875 |
| Vice-Chair Robby S | robbysidhu@me.com | 1 403 605 9120 |
| Audz C | audzaj@gmail.com | 1 780 292 6483 |
| George M (Trustee) | anrt@ca.org | 1 732 261 8314 |
| Yves W | yves.white@videotron.ca | 1 514 793 5396 |
| Jill E | eurich.jill@gmail.com | 1 414 534 6610 |
| Randy M | randyvm@mac.com | 1 714 721 8014 |
| Wade S | pnrtrusttee@yahoo.com | 1 780 964 9236 |
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Robby S read this section —
CLOSING COMMENTS
We are committed to, in any way possible to, assist the fellowship in use of digital tools for communication and information. Our aim is to support and assist in the growth of Cocaine Anonymous.
The WSCIT Committee is looking for your ideas and input on the creation of a Cocaine Anonymous Mobile Application. If anyone is interested in submitting ideas or helping with creating the application, please have them send an email to itcommittee@ca.org
Respektfullt ingiven:
Johan T, Chair
Trevor S – Questions for the committee?
Jason L – Thanks for your work. Where is the committee at with the database? When might it might be available?
Johan T – Last conference that passed, we started to assist WSOB to create an app and allowed us to start. During the year, we have created the database. It needs to be tested still, but will assist with things like a ‘find a meeting’ app. The database could be used by Areas and they could load up info on their meetings to it, then that info goes into apps utilizing the database.
Jason L – Where are you at? Is there a timeline of when it will be available.
Johan T – We are testing it now and doing a website in Kenya as they only have 3-4 meeting. Also working with the ca.org webmaster. We have no timetable on that yet. 2-4 months probably.
Kevin M – I figure this has been discussed with Cameron, you are using industry standards for the database?
Johan T – Yes
Jason L – Good to know we have meetings in Kenya, that database will be good for that. Will it be the area’s responsibility to update their info, not the WSO?
Johan T – Yes, it will be the Area’s responsibility to keep their info updated.
Trevor S – Seeing no further questions, please thank the committee. LCF will be next.
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