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Mission

Share the message of Alcoholics Anonymous through digital technology tools to help the alcoholic who still suffers, in line with the principles of the 12th Step.

Objectives

The Technology Committee’s mandate is to ensure Region 87’s presence on the Internet through various Web sites and to provide access to various digital and information technologies

The Technology Committee is responsible for the management and administration of digital and communications tools. The Technology Committee provides support to our service members.

The Technology Committee ensures the integrity of computer systems and data related to their work, including the maintenance of Web hosting centers and domains.

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Mandate

  • The Technology Committee's mandate is to ensure Region 87's presence on the Internet.

General guidelines

Our presence on the Internet should respect the following guidelines:

 

  • Welcome the person seeking help.
  • Inform visitors about A.A. in general and Area 87 in particular.
  • Preserve the integrity of our Triple Legacy.
  • Respect the guidelines of the Quebec A.A. Website Committee.
  • Keep in mind that the Web site is widely accessible to the public.

Content

Visitors to the site should find the following information on the regional pages:

 

  • A list of AA meetings organized by the groups.
  • A list of telephone numbers to speak with an AA member.
  • A list of events organized by AA entities.
  • A list of events organized by AA entities.
  • Area newsletter.
  • A calendar of area service activities.
  • Information on our literature service.
  • Area 87 contact information.

Serving districts and committees

Districts and committees wishing to do so should have access to technical support for their own presence on the area site.

Quebec A.A. Website Provincial Committee

The Committee oversees our Area’s delegation to the Quebec A.A. Website Provincial Committee.

Tools

The Committee is composed of two levels of service – essential and complementary – to ensure both the necessary rotation at the decision-making level and the necessary continuity of our presence on the Internet:

  • A group conscience responsible to the Regional Committee for the orientations of the Comité des Tdechnologies.
  • A work team that implements these orientations, within which there is a specialized technical group, without necessarily being subject to the principles of rotation.

It is the responsibility of the group conscience to organize the tasks of the work team “whose scope will be clearly defined”, in an environment that fosters harmonious and fraternal exchanges:

“Our primary goal is to remain sober and to help other alcoholics become sober.”

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Publication Policy

The Area 87 Technology Committee follows the Québec AA Website Committee‘s guidelines regarding the publication or non-publication of materials.

Accordingly, the Area Technology Committee ensures that the content published preserves the integrity of our Triple Legacy.

The Québec AA Website Committee guidelines:

No personal information, photograph, or illustration which might identify a member of Alcoholics Anonymous, may be published on the site.

A member may be identified only as follows:

  • First name and first initial of family name;
  • Name of Home Group;
  • Name and/or number of District;
  • Name and/or number of Area;
  • Name of city, province, state, country;
  • Function and/or;
  • just the mention "Member of Alcoholics Anonymous".

No personal telephone number may be listed on the site. The only authorized telephone numbers are those of Areas, A.A.W.S., A.A. Grapevine, Editions de La Vigne AA, also those from the list of telephone services provided by the Districts.

Only email addresses from “@aa-quebec.org” may be listed on the site as well as addresses belonging to Québec Areas, A.A.W.S., A.A. Grapevine, Editions de La Vigne AA, and those concerning the places of accommodation related to A.A. activities (group, district, area or A.A. members committee) concerning A.A. and for A.A.

Links authorized automatically on our site are those towards the following sites: A.A.W.S., A.A. Grapevine, Editions de La Vigne AA as well as for internal links towards other Areas sites in Québec.

A link towards sites within other Areas of our Conference, other Conferences, Zones and other links available throughout A.A.W.S. must therefore open a page indicating that the visitor is leaving a Québec A.A. site notifying that the link does not constitute an endorsement.

Also, to facilitate access to documents in Portable Document File (PDF) format, Flash animations or documents in video and audio format, or other documents available on our website, links may be available for the free downloading of the required software.

There cannot be any other link towards a site which is not a known A.A. service entity.

The guidelines to follow for the reprinting of texts or parts of texts from our literature are the same as suggested in our A.A. Service Manual for Area newsletters.

«Local A.A. publications are permitted to reprint the Steps, Traditions, and/or the Concepts, and to quote a phrase, sentence or brief paragraph excerpted from A.A. literature such as the Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous, the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, The A.A. Service Manual and Conference-approved pamphlets without a prior, written request to do so.When this occurs, the proper credit line should be included to ensure that the copyrights of A.A. literature are protected. After a quotation from a book or pamphlet, the credit line should read: Reprinted from (name of publication, page number), with permission of A.A.World Services, Inc.»

«The A.A. Preamble is copyrighted by the A.A. Grapevine. Beneath it, and beneath any article reprinted from the Grapevine and La Viña, these words should appear: Copyright © (Month, Year) A.A. Grapevine, Inc. Reprinted with permission. For more information on reprinting other material from the A.A. Grapevine, Inc., see Chapter 12.»

— Excerpt from A.A. Service Manual,
page S41, 2010-2011 Edition.
Reprinted with permission from
A.A. World Services, Inc.

Responsibility for published content

The Technology committee is mandated to respect the AA du Québec website committee’s guidelines and to protect our Three Legacies.

Based on these principles, the committee established two important markers for all entities choosing to be included on our website:

  1. Each must respect the Publication Policy for all content accessible to the public.
  2. Each entity must nominate a single representative who is responsible for the transmission of all information in public pages.

Each entity of our Area (Area Assembly, Area Steering Committee, Area Committee, Area Service Committee, District, A.A. group, Area Archives) that chooses to be on our Area website is responsible for the content of the web pages, including updates it requests to be published by the Website committee on its pages or in its name.

The Committee is responsible for the content of general pages, defined as those that do not belong to an entity in particular. For the most-part, these are directly accessible from the Home page of the Area website.

The Committee is responsible for the overall design of the Area Website.

Before undertaking work that alters the design, in part or in whole, the entities that will be affected will be consulted for their input on planned changes and final suggestions.

The Technology committee is aware of a variety of multi-ethnic communication and procedures for decision-making exist within entities that have or will have pages on our Area website. The Workgroup has no opinion on this subject but is conscious that these differences exist, often for very good reasons.

However, the committee also has a responsibility to ensure that the content it publishes in the name of these entities is “legitimate”. Excluding A.A. groups in the area, there are over forty entities present on our Area website. The Committee recognizes only one representative per entity.

For example, an area service committee may find it efficient to have several members, each working on a different activity for the committee, send us information for their web pages. Understanding that this may be more efficient and if any coordination is required for publication, it is preferable in maintaining our common welfare that this coordination be carried out by the committee itself. All that is published in the name of the committee must come from a single representative.

The representative recognized by the Technology committee is:

  • Named by the entity or
  • If the entity does not name a representative, or has not yet named one, the Technology committee will recognize the entity’s "official" representative.

The representatives identified by Area website section[1] :

  • General web pages: The Area Technology Committee Coordinator.
  • Area Assembly web pages: The Area Chairperson
  • Area Steering Committee web pages: The Area Chairperson
  • Area Committee web pages: The Area Chairperson
  • All District web pages: The DCM
  • All Area Service Committee web pages: The committee coordinator
  • Archives web pages: The Area Archivist

[1] The case for A.A. Groups is different. The Area Technology Committee has no access to information regarding elected members in A.A. groups such as contact information for the G.S.R. Information published on behalf of A.A. groups then must be submitted by the representative of their district or directly by the Area Service office.

While the Committee prepares suggestions for the content of pages, be it for a district, committee or other entity, the Website committee remains responsible for the content of these pages until they are adopted by the entity concerned.

As a result, the Committee also has the responsibilty to insure that all non-approved pages carry a notice « Page is not public domain – Content in development ».

The Committee also ensures that no link exists between unpublished pages and our Area Website until approval is given.

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