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SERVAS INTERNATIONAL NEWS BULLETIN NO 2 2016
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THIS ISSUE *** SHE LEADS
THE SERVAS
INNOVATION PROJECT *** “INTERNATIONAL SERVAS WEEK” IN
SEPTEMBER ***
STORYTELLING TO PROMOTE SERVAS *** "ONE SMALL STEP FOR HUMANITY, ONE GIANT LEAP
FOR SERVAS" *** UPDATE ON SERVAS’
NEW WEBSITE AND SERVASONLINE *** SERVAS
GENERAL SECRETARY UPDATE *** MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD AT THE
UN *** NOVEMBER 2016 DISTANT
VOTE *** OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG SERVAS MEMBERS
*** ABOUT THE SERVASONLINE SYSTEM
PROJECT *** FACTS ABOUT SERVASONLINE SYSTEM *** SURF IN AND VISIT SERVAS CURRENT WEBSITE *** WHAT SI EXCO HAS DECIDED – FIND
OUT HERE *** ¿TE GUSTARÍA FORMAR PARTE DE
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THE SERVAS
INNOVATION PROJECT The Servas International Innovation Project will be led by Aneris Cao of
Servas Chile and others. They will develop the ideas that came out of discussion
during the Speaker's Corner sessions at the Servas International Conference and
General Assembly (SICOGA) 2015 in New Zealand. Speaker’s Corner was an open session and forum at the international
conference where everyone could contribute ideas about how Servas can develop in
the future. Several innovative ideas were put forward, some of which the Innovation
Group will now try to put into action. The Servas International vice president Ann Greenhough will be the link
between the project and Servas International’s global board, SI
Exco. Read about the innovation project ”International Servas Week”
below. Aneris Cao and other members of the Innovation Group can be contacted via
and email to innovation@servas.org.
Aneris Cao from Argentina, now
living in Chile, will lead the Servas International Innovation
Project. *** “INTERNATIONAL SERVAS WEEK” IN
SEPTEMBER We want to invite you to
participate in the Project “International Servas Week”. This project aims to put
into action one of the ideas debated in the workshop we had at SICOGA 2015,
named “Speakers corner”. This project aims to start this
September and everyone can contribute to make it happen! We want to celebrate Servas,
making connections all over the world during the same week, with simultaneous
activities that spread Servas values, such as Peace, Solidarity,
Service, Hospitality, and Understanding. Here you can see the
aim of the project: PROJECT:
INTERNATIONAL SERVAS WEEK IMPORTANT NOTICE:
THIS YEAR : 17TH TO 26TH SEPTEMBER
2016 Name and
theme: Connecting SERVAS:
making connections with the world Aim of the project: What? Celebrate Servas Week once a
year around
the world, with simultaneous events organized
during the week of 21st
September. How? Take part in global
action to show ourselves to the world and so reinforce our values as an
organisation, such as Peace, Solidarity, Service,
Hospitality, Understanding. Impact: As Servas members make
new connections between us and with others who share common ground
with Servas. Annual Date: the week of 21st
September, the UN international day of peace, to celebrate Servas values such
as: Peace, Solidarity, Service, Hospitality, and
Understanding. First Time of the
Project: the week from Saturday 17th to Sunday
26th September 2016 You can receive
more information and examples by sending an email to innovation@servas.org Thanks in advance
for joining us in this first activity! In peace and
friendship, Aneris Cao and the other members of the Servas
Innovation Group
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INITIATIVE TO USE STORYTELLING TO PROMOTE SERVAS
Servas members participating at Servas International Conference and
General Assembly in New Zealand in October 2015. Photo: Ben
Childs This is a pledge to national secretaries and other key persons in Servas
to spread the word about a communication project to increase the knowledge about
our organization in the world. Telling and
publishing stories about great Servas experiences is an efficient way to inspire
people to join the organization and to make existing individual members travel
and host more. In a communications campaign we (Stefan Fagerström and Jonny Sågänger)
encourage all individual Servas members to tell their story about Servas. We are
especially interested in getting personal photos and stories that express
answers to this question: What does
Servas mean to you? The main
purpose of this communication initiative is to collect material which we can use
on Servas web sites and in social media to tell other people about Servas. We
will of course get permission from the contributors before
publishing. Please spread this information to all individual Servas members in your
country. We are looking forward to see many photos and to read all your great
Servas experiences and to make them fit for publishing. Stefan Fagerström, member of Servas International Image & Design
Support Team and administrator of the SI face book page Jonny Sågänger, president Servas International and administrator of the
SI face book page
*** "ONE SMALL STEP FOR HUMANITY,
ONE GIANT LEAP FOR SERVAS" Bernard Andrieu
describes – with a portion of humour – but also lots of pride – the successful
transfer of members data, "one small step for humanity, one giant leap for
Servas". The transfer of the data was completed on July 25th. Some adjustments were
necessary due to the complexity of building the import file. Now it is up to
each individual member to complete her/his profile and to place her/his home on
the map. ServasOnline will now
step by step become Servas main system for member
administration.
Bernard Andrieu Gerente de Proyecto del Sistema
ServasOnline *** SERVASONLINE LEVY REQUIRED TO
COMPLETE THE INTERNET PROJECT The ServasOnline
(SOL) levy as decided at the Servas International General Assembly 2009 in
Argentina still is unpaid by some Servas member groups. Servas International’s
global executive committee, SI Exco, now requests these member groups to pay up
so that all the financial obligations are fulfilled and they can exercise their
vote at the Distant Voting scheduled for November 2016. Lakshmanan Venkata
Subramanian (LV), who is the treasurer of Servas International, will follow up
and facilitate with the respective member groups for concluding the pending
financial obligations. This is the background to Exco’s
action: The ServasOnline project group was set up in Argentina GA 2009 to develop a
new website to replace the existing one at www.servas.org, and a new online member system, ServasOnline,
to replace the existing Dolphin system. The new website and ServasOnline will
provide extensive information for interested people, and also a real time
membership system and communication platform for members. In 2009 it was understood that
this would involve a large financial outlay which would be partly met by SI
reserves and partly by means of a levy charged to all SI Member Groups having
more than 100 host members. A motion was passed at the 2009 GA to charge CHF 1
for every host member in countries with over 100 hosts. The levy was in effect for 2010,
2011 and 2012. It was suspended after 2012 by a 2012 GA decision. Currently, the SI Treasurer’s
records show that 10 countries have not paid their ServasOnline levy for one or
more of the years 2010, 2011 and 2012. The new website and ServasOnline
are almost completed, and there has been considerable financial outlay. After
implementation, there will be ongoing maintenance costs which are mandatory and
necessary. There are also planned additional functions and upgrades which will
need to be paid. The financial costs for the next three years, namely 2016 to
2018, were presented and approved at the last 2015 GA. Since the ServasOnline levy was a
GA decision, it is a financial obligation. Member Groups who have not met their
financial obligations are not entitled to vote in Distant Votes or at General
Assemblies. It is therefore requested to those
Member Groups that have not paid the ServasOnline levy pay it as soon as
possible, to ensure that they are eligible to vote in the upcoming November 2016
Distant Vote. These outstanding levy funds will also support upcoming expenses
as the website and ServasOnline are put into production. Please contact SI Treasurer
Lakshmanan Venkata Subramanian (LV) to arrange the payment by 31st August 2016.
He can be contacted by email atTreasurer@servas.org. Thank you for your attention and
early compliance. Regards Jonny Sågänger President Servas
International
*** UPDATE ON SERVAS’ NEW WEBSITE
AND SERVASONLINE This image taken from a test
version of the new Servas International website gives an idea about the future
design that will be launched on the Internet domain servas.org. Illustration: Copyright
free image from the web The launch of a new
and modernized Servas International website on the Internet domain servas.org is coming closer and
closer. The activity is being spearheaded by a group of people in a so called
ServasOnline team and by individuals who have volunteered as pilots and testers
of the new website, the information and communication platform (ICT platform)
and the members' database application. The new website and
the ServasOnline system will be launched in several steps. First comes the
presentation of the new website and then the members' database application which
will allow for two way communication between travellers and hosts, geographic
search and other new functions. Preparations are
right now being done to transfer member data from the current members' database
application Dolphin to ServasOnline. The Servas member
countries France, New Zealand and Canada are currently testing ServasOnline.
France expects to load the members' data in July. The French Servas volunteers
will make the member profiles visible to the Servas world in September, after at
least a full month of validation of their personal data. Dolphin will be
closed when the last Servas member country will have have uploaded the member
data in the ServasOnline system. Pablo Colangelo, the
Servas International host list coordinator, is playing a central and crucial
role in the transition from Dolphin to ServasOnline. Pablo Colangelo and
the rest of the ServasOnline Team are preparing the ServasOnline deployment in
each country jointly with the national secretaries, who will be instrumental in
the transition of national members’ databases into ServasOnline.
Do you have questions
about the transition from Dolphin, other national member’s databases or other
queries about member administration please contact for Pablo Colangelo via an
email to hostlistcoordinator@servas.org Please send an email
to servasonline@servas.org if you have questions about the
new website and/or if you would like to volunteer to offer your services for the
completion and future development of this exciting project. See the movie about
the development of ServasOnline here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY7HFZcx_04
Jonny Sågänger
President
Servas
International
***
SERVAS GENERAL SECRETARY UPDATE Greetings everyone! There have been a few developments since the conference in New Zealand in
October 2015 that I would like to draw to your attention. ·
General
Assembly decision to make Spanish a working language of Servas
International: Lilly Keredes,
from Servas Mexico, has been appointed as the SI Spanish Translation
Coordinator. In this role, Lilly will have a team of translators, and she will
coordinate the translations and review them for accuracy. We look forward to
working with you in both English and Spanish. As you will understand, this is a
BIG job! And Lilly needs more translators on her team! Please email spanishcoordinator@servas.org if you can
help! ·
SI Annual
Reports – The 2016
Annual Report form was been sent out to all Member Groups of SI. It is one of
the requirements for a member group to retain its member status. 56 of the 77
Member Groups have sent their Annual Reports. If you have not done it yet,
please do so as soon as possible. ·
SI Analysis
Group: There is a lot
of information in the Annual Reports, which have been collected for many years.
An SI Analysis group is being set up to do analysis of the data that we have,
and also look at the best use of the information, and if there is some that
would be useful to collect in the future. If you have
experience with analysis or an interest in looking at data and using the
information to identify trends, issues or interesting conclusions, please write
to Penny Pattison at generalsecretary@servas.org ·
S l Archive
Consulting Group: A new SI
Archivist, Anna Koster, was elected at the conference, and she has begun work.
She has 110 boxes of information stored at the Hoover Institute in California.
And that is only papers from 2007 and earlier! Then there is all of the
electronic information from the last 10 years. And then more is created every
day as we go forward. We
are setting up a consulting group to work with Anna, to decide such things
as: o
What
information to keep from now into the future? o
What
information to keep from the past 10 years? o
How to decide
what to keep out of the 110 boxes of earlier records? o
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