Attendees

Agenda

Commons working group check-in
Follow up of last week's discussion
Going over this week's events
train event volunteers in crowd management for fire safety/evacuation
Event Rental Evalution Sheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AtCpKhdd6r_c8ijCK3H2VZHovWrYTAqPOMRIH6aWicM/edit#gid=0

Sarah: growing out of longstanding conversations about overwork/burnout in this wg, will try a new form for receiving and deciding on events and hosting
hosting events offer two big opportunities:
- 1.) build relationships with people and orgs, allies, solidarity
- 2.) bring in income for the OMNI
because we've been saying yes to every request we receive, the people who are bottomlining events are getting burned out and have been unable to build intentional relationships and partnerships with people who are hosting events
we are failing to meet the two big opportunities because of this
- 3.) demonstrating public benefit -- through providing a sliding scale (mutual benefit or public benefit mission)
instead of ad-hoc/ongoing evalauation, we will make a deadline. Historically, you needed to submit requests 1 week before the event you want to host.
New format: submit by the second friday of every month for the coming month
second saturday of every month--discuss which events we'll take on
Barrett developed a set of criteria to evaluate each event, which he will present at this meeting
set a cap on how many events a person can bottomline each month, which also sets a cap on the total number of events per month (based on how many people are willing to bottom line)
Matt: we should also set up a quota for newcomers to the commons wg--maybe one or two
Collectives should be point personing their own events, but also need to be trained so they know how to do that.

Heart of Community Dinner - monthly dinner in La Commune, Sarah has spoken to them, willing to pp, will connect to FNB and Phat Beets. Needs work before publishing
Democracy Will Win Party - Community Democracy Project folks having a small gathering in the basement tomorrow. Jenny will contact Tia and move Open Circle to Disco Room
Solidarity cafe for Malcolm -7/26 Yar pp
AAYSP Meet and Greet the Board - prelim to dr. shaker event, SP pp
Hosting Dr. Shaker - SP to follow up
Omni Film Night: Flag Wars by Laura Poitras - Optik Allusions/noemie
DxE Meetup - Matt Senate
Unheard of World Rehearsals - they list sarah as pp
Youth Pickle - Julio - (can't) need sonmeone else to take over? -Jenny: Max is down to pp his own event, will ask what help he needs from us - update: 7/25, his email bounced
Ligure Club meeting - Laura
Takun Takun - noemie, publish to cal?
Benefit for the Free Speech Stage in People's Park - update from Noemie? Laura is concerned about whether this event will be wrothwhile in terms of actually raisng money. Will it be well organized? Will FNB provide all the labor?
HOward Zinn pre event concert 11/14 PP Julio (details below)
vegan party fundrasier 2/6 - laura will get more information
? follow-up with Dragon on doing massage here - jenny has, he's added omni and john givens to his insurance. need to follow up about waiver of subrogation - jenny pinged noemie to contact him, update?
Takun Takun - noemie pp

second annual bookfair in November 14, pre-party on Saturday
Radical musical acts: Last International (just opened for the Who in London), Tom Morello (maybe), Mass Band (Oakland local hip hop)
offering $1000 deposit; kick back some more after costs are calculated
Light alcohol: caterer; similar to AK Press
Want La Commune as a co-sponsor
Schedule of events -- November 14th (Night before:)
- Party at Omni @ 7pm, have it as a reception. Start at 8pm with concert - finish around 11:30pm
- Potentially listing La Commune as a partner? Might be interested in hosting a talk with Howard Zinn's daughter at La Commune
- Book fair will be in San Francisco the next day -- Mission campus of City College
- Have their own sound engineer who works at the Shoreline.
- Claiborne Carson will be in conversation with Alicia Garza -- on the 15th at City College

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