Event:2014/12/02 How We Organize

December 2nd, 2014 7 - 8:30pm

announcement

• Stephen's proposal for each collective to have one active member on the 'booking' list
  • Passed! Now what? How do we liberate these new folks on this list?
    • Margit's been renting the dance studio, interested in helping with a document that can help people figure out how to talk to people, Jenny will help. FAQ sheet for booking folks.
• Is there any announcements of things we need to work on for the OOC?

THIS WEEKS AGENDA

• Challenging people and organizations
  • Begin first with personal conversations - avoid policy-based top-down decisions
  • We should assign a 'buddy' or 'mentor' system
  • Offer How We Organize as a point of mediation - Kevin will talk to Sarah and CDC to collaborate on this
  • How do we encourage people to be empowered to listen / learn rather than dominate?
• How We Organize visioning warm-up (15min)
  • What are we doing here in this wg?
    • We deal with issues around identifying and disseminating problems and potential ways to solve them
    • The survey didn't work out so well
    • Examining what we've done the past and how we should continue - detecting patterns
    • "Tank the think-tanking group":
      • Rent/tenancy proposal - meh
      • Survey - meh
      • Populating working groups - yes!
      • Literature - ballroom FAQ, Working group FAQ / plug-in / lists
      • Chore wheel - how's it working?
      • Populating bookings - we need FAQ's
      • How we facilitate - co-facilitators,
• Discussion of the issue with "bottom-lining"
  • What are some of our long term visions for our relationship to the OOC?
  • What can we begin to work on individually and collectively?
• Disseminating building maintenance responsibilities (10min)

• Check in: How has this been working? Shall we add a "Check-in" to the Delegates Agenda for when we report-back, to see how it's working for groups - how we can alter our current system, etc.

• Finished version of "How to Clean the Ballroom FAQ" to give to groups (collectives or outside groups) who use or sponsor an event in the ballroom as part of expectations for rental/use of ballroom, etc. (see: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bIgn85luaIvm4W5NJqCi7YySak0DACBbyZKs-_-VjOw/edit?usp=sharing)
• Facilitating GM shake-up methods
• Peak Agency status
• Brainstorm of alternatives to "bottom-liner":
  • Guide
  • Steward
  • Facilitator
  • A bunch more i didn't copy down