Operation Cat Herder:About

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Operation Cat Herder is a national collaborative effort to take the grassroots movement and inertia behind the Ron Paul 2008 Presidential Campaign and use it to continue political efforts. Our goals (and the things that youBold text can help with)and the reasons for our existance, are as follows.

Firstly, as a movement, we have several serious problems:

[1] We are not all talking to each other [2] We don't know who we all are [3] We are losing supporters, organizers and Meetups [4] We lack a corporate memory

To address these issues, Operation Cat Herder was created. Dr. Paul has stated that beyond the upcoming states and the delegate process he wants us to transition into a long term movement. What exactly his plans are in this regard is anybodies guess – he hasn't announced them yet. What is clear is that we don't have a well oiled and tuned movement to give him.

There is a lot of responsibility and leadership sitting on the table here, just waiting for someone to pick it up. A lot of someones. We need people to show initiative, pick a corner they want to work on and run with it. It is a very distributed effort. We are here to provide tools, outline a direction and NOT to micromanage anything.

[1] Get all the known organizers talking and in the same loops on a national basis

[1a] Bridge the 3 organizer groups: http://ronpaul.meetup.com/511/ http://ronpaul.meetup.com/158/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RPMeetupOrganizers/ Done!

[1b] Conference calls – 511 and RPMO both used to have a weekly conference call, we need to re-establish these on a weekly or bi-weekly basis – started

[1c] Establish an opt-in organizer directory that will only be available to those listed - pending

[2] Get the rest of the organizers on board and map out Ron Paul space

[2a] Contact and invite all the organizers that are not part of the bridge or Alliance to join us. That's over half of them. - ongoing

[2b] Contact all the organizers that are part of either the bridge or the Alliance and ask them to join the other. There is very little overlap. - pending

[2c] Update state group lists and make sure all organizers in a state know about their local ones. - ongoing

[3] Supporter networking and migration away from Meetup – or more often, migrating to bigger Meetups in their area. - This is an ongoing distributed, local effort – we just want to know where you end up and what Meetups are being phased out so we can add the information to roadmap sites.

[3a] Adopt a Meetup project for maintaining Meetup presence through November, staggered migration away from Meetup and Group consolidation within states. -ongoing

[3b] Adopt a Social Networking Site project to map and organize State groups on MySpace and Facebook, etc.

[3c] Map other Ron Paul resources: web sites, blogs, suppliers, chat systems, etc. and refer to road map sites, as above – pending

[3d] Map special resources groups and network people, as above. Video, Artists, Bands, etc. - starting*

• Taken from an email to OCH members.