Watchlist
Real signals, no anchor yet
The Roundtable surfaced a number of cross-organisational needs that did not yet produce a named anchor team. Each item below could become a sandbox in a future Roundtable cycle if the right coordination structure forms.
The bar is deliberately high. Sue Seccombe’s definition requires permeable edges, focus on best practices, and no single-organisation ownership. None of these meet all three today.
Study-Group Portal
Gaétan Charland's mockup for an integrated, youth-friendly aggregation of the study-group directory plus facilitator courses, resource library, and discovery tools. Mo Siegel publicly endorsed it ("a really extraordinarily smart idea") in Forum 2. As of the close of the Roundtable, this remains Charland's project — a strong proposal, not yet a co-owned coordination surface.
What it would take to promote
A working group with members from at least two of the four organisations jointly committing to build it — and bringing the existing study-group directory team (Bill Beasley, Jackie, Philip Marriott, per Sue Seccombe's note) into the room.
From the forums
- forum 2 study groups education — Charland presented the mockup; Mo Siegel endorsed it.
- forum 5 how can we help — Sue Seccombe noted the existing directory team was not in the room.
Children's content coordination
Joshua's Workshop (Margie Ray, CFU) and Bower Tree (Kate and Zach Wheeler) exist as separate single-org projects. Pablo Morales's family practice and his daughter's critique surfaced the gap; Margie Ray named it explicitly in Forum 5 (she had not known about Bower Tree even though Kate and Zach attend her own study group). Real need; no cross-org coordination yet.
What it would take to promote
An anchor team that brings together Joshua's Workshop, Bower Tree, Pablo Morales's family-practice work, and any other named children's-education projects under a shared coordination surface.
From the forums
- forum 5 how can we help — Margie Ray on the Bower Tree coordination gap; Pablo Morales on his daughter's critique.
Youth and young adults
The largest silence in the room. Sally Anabella's stat that 33% of religious nones are teens and young adults; Pablo Morales's daughter's critique ("you are doing it in the wrong way"); Maya Anazodo's Nigerian outreach. The room recognised the urgency but did not produce a coordination team.
What it would take to promote
A named anchor team willing to coordinate youth-engagement work across the four organisations — preferably including at least one young-adult voice.
From the forums
- forum 5 how can we help — Sally Anabella's nones stat; Pablo Morales's family practice and his daughter's critique.
- forum 1 internationalisation — Maya Anazodo's Nigerian youth outreach work.
Africa beyond Nigeria
Pre McGee framed Africa as a "new spiritual centre of gravity." Victor Garcia-Bory noted that four languages (Arabic, Portuguese, French, English) cover 52 of 54 African countries at higher-education levels. But the room only heard from Nigeria (Anazodo) and Ghana (Lomo). The continent is too vast and diverse for a single sandbox; coordination needs to be region- or country-specific.
What it would take to promote
Anchors from East Africa, Southern Africa, francophone West Africa, and lusophone Africa — and a coordination structure built as country- or region-specific cells rather than a single "Africa sandbox".
From the forums
- forum 1 internationalisation — Pre McGee, Anazodo, Lomo, Garcia-Bory's African-languages stat.
Spanish-language coordination
43,500+ members in the largest Spanish-language Urantia Facebook group; Alejandra Rodriguez and Pablo Morales doing serious work; El Caballo de Troya cited as a successful entry point. But it is individual-led and Facebook-organic, not a cross-org practice incubator. A future sandbox if a coordination structure forms.
What it would take to promote
A coordination structure that brings the largest Spanish-language Facebook study groups, Alejandra's digital platform work, and Pablo's translation work into a shared best-practice surface.
From the forums
- forum 1 internationalisation — Alejandra Rodriguez and Pablo Morales on Spanish-speaking communities.
- forum 4 multi media 2 — Jeannie Vazquez's social-media stats on Spanish UB Facebook groups.
Open-source / vendor-lock-in
Douglas Burns raised the caution in Forum 5: avoid proprietary products; build on open-source solutions. He cited the Fellowship's earlier dependence on a since-discontinued Adobe product. The comment landed but no task force formed. A principle without an owner.
What it would take to promote
An anchor (likely a developer or technologist in the community) willing to maintain a curated list of open-source options for community technology choices, plus a forum to surface lock-in risks before they bite.
From the forums
- forum 5 how can we help — Douglas Burns's caution about Adobe-style discontinuation risk.
The reasoning behind which items are sandboxes, capability commons, and watchlist entries is recorded internally in thepossible-sandboxes.mdsynthesis brief.