Town Hall Meeting 2011

The first Free Geek Town Hall Meeting was held on Sunday, October 2nd, at the Eagles Lodge.

http://lists.freegeek.org/pipermail/regulars/2011-September/000359.html

Reports
Our lovely outreach coordinator, Jessa, created and presented several reports on the state of Free Geek.

Volunteer Representatives
As this was the inaugural town hall meeting, both (newly-created) volunteer representative board seats were to be filled. The candidates were:


 * Jason Owen
 * Eric Hamilton
 * Joe Bourguignon
 * Larry Lloyd

http://www.freegeek.org/free-geek-elections

Discussion
There was much discussed.

Lessons Learned
We knew going into this that there would be many mistakes made as we figured out how to organize and run such an event. There are two things that happened around the same time but are very distinct: the volunteer representative election and the town hall meeting itself.

Election
Some of the things we should have done differently include:


 * get @freegeek.org email addresses to candidates before bios are posted, and include them in the candidate descriptions.
 * post bios further in advance.