Welcome Guide
Welcome to the Vegan Option Canada collective !
Please feel free to ask questions your accompanying ally who is here to help you discover the following points with you.
Your Ideas – Your Projects
- Share your expectations, goals, ideas and projects with VOC
- Share your talents, skills, expertise, experiences, human networks, implications in other organizations.
- Do you feel comfortable with the ethics of VOC, which gives priority to alleviating suffering in the world?
Participation possible
- remain a mere observer, which is already a lot,
- get involved in interest centres supported by VOC,
- open up new centers of interest,
- get involved in the organization and proper functioning of VOC (CA, Communications Council, Webmaster Team…)
- participate in VOC’s decisions via the Agora (add propositions /object to them).
Training in collaborative VOC tools
- Discover VOC: Presentation
- Discover the VOC Public Directory
- Discover the VOC Collaborative Platform Portal, with its various resources (center of interests, team meetings etc)
- Test the use of the VOC meeting room (Google Hangouts)
- Subscribe to “Notification” of “Comments” when following the latest developments in a Google Document (automatic notification via email). Start with Vegan Option
- Join a discussion group (Google Group). Begin with the Vegan Option.
- How to intervene in a Google Document (click on “join the chat” to identify yourself with your Google account)
- Identifying with your Google account (or not if you want to intervene anonymously)
- directly into the body of the document (in suggestion mode)
- by simple “comment” on the margin, or by responding to a “comment”
Important : VOC operates in radical transparency, which means that any Internet user can view and rebroadcast internal discussions and your identity. Before participating in VOC activities, it is important to ask you to intervene anonymously, if necessary, by creating an email address that does not allow you to make the link, in which case it is advisable to create a Gmail address in order to automatically have a Google account, which will facilitate participation in the technical plan.