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PauseAI Organization

Organization structure

  • Legal entities : PauseAI consists of one international entity (PauseAI Global), and several local / national legal entities. This website and the social media accounts are managed by the international entity.
  • National groups : National PauseAI groups are hubs that typically manage their own local communities, and are responsible for national-level strategy and coordination. They typically have their own website, social media accounts and legal entity. National leaders meet regularly to coordinate their work.
  • Teams : Teams are groups of volunteers who work on specific projects or tasks within PauseAI Global. Every team has its own leader, Discord channel, Drive folder and of course list of members. Reach out to a team leader to join a team!
  • Local communities : Check if there already exists a community in your area. Most groups are communicating in our discord server, in the #local-meetups channel (If you want to create a new local group, post there!). Some groups are using tools like WhatsApp or a separate Discord server.
  • People (Volunteers) : List of registered volunteers who have opted to show their profile and have committed to work on PauseAI for at least some hours a week.
Organagram

How teams work

  • Teams take on certain responsibilities within PauseAI. They always have a leader, a Team Document
    (describing the team’s responsibilities and processes), a Discord channel and a Drive folder. They typically regularly meet digitally to coordinate their work.
  • Read the Team Lead Onboarding Document
    to see what’s expected of a team leader.
  • If you want to join a team, reach out to the team leader.

Onboarding process

  1. Sign up as a volunteer (on the join page or on Discord). An automated message is sent to the Onboarding team.
  2. Someone from the onboarding team reaches out to the volunteer and invites them for a one-on-one call. They are asked to take actions in an existing local group, set up a local group, or join one of the teams.

Educational resources

Strategy

Tools used

  • Discord
    for internal coordination / chats.
  • Gmail
    for @pauseai.info email addresses.
  • Google Suite
    for documents, spreadsheets, files, folders.
  • Trello
    is used by some teams for issue / ToDo tracking. (org name: pauseaiinfo)
  • Figma
    for designing flyers and other graphics. (template here
  • Airtable
    for managing teams, volunteers and responsibilities.

Social Media

You can find us on Discord

(this is where most of the coordination happens!), Twitter
, Substack
, Facebook
, TikTok
, LinkedIn
, YouTube
, Instagram
and Reddit
. You can mail/contact us at joep@pauseai.info
.