Council 2008 02

When: Wed, Feb 20 2008 at 7:15
Place: Free Geek Meeting Room
Facilitator: Dave
Scribe: Laurel, for Seamus
Minutes Checker: Marie
Attendance: Dave, laurel, Richard, Oso, Cliff, Jeff, Paul, matteo, martin, Mark B., Eugene
Last meeting: 16 Jan 2008

CONSENSUS TRAINING

Oso: some tools from the Seeds for Change handbook that we don't use but might want to use on occasion.

• A co-facilitator can help in a larger meeting with facilitation duties, with things like keeping track of who's spoken, watching times, checking the temperature of the room.
• Using go-rounds - use when a topic is brushing through without much conversation. If conversation is reached too quickly, it might be reason to be suspicious. In a go-round, each person can say what they have to say, without response.

COMMITMENTS

• Oso - oso will talk to architects - IN PROGRESS/DROP in this form
  • Oso will be talking to the building group about his ideas on this issue
• Dave - Dave will write up something about the (financial) value of our work in the community - CARRYOVER
  • Dave has thought about this and needs to get with Marie to help him get things down.
• Richard - rfs will set up a meeting reminder - DONE
• martin and matteo - will set up a secure wiki - IN PROGRESS

REPORTS

State of the Onion

http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/State_of_the_Onion Martin reports on the diff:

• the black hole is gone
• lots of space use changes
• locks change
• hired Mary Kate
• Leo Westwind is doing well
• planned trainings for tour guides and prebuild instructors
• staff health insurance is extended to one child/employee

General Priorities

http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/General_Priorities Did not have a meeting in the last month but will have a meeting soon. (Tues Feb 26, 2008, 7:15, Free Geek meeting room, open to Free Geek community members wishing to take on responsibility) There will be discussion about hiring strategies specifically at that meeting. Read the minutes email list archive for background on issues. ( http://lists.freegeek.org/listinfo/minutes )

Building committee

Reminder of what this is about: we're getting big and want to have more control over our space, don't want to be priced out of this space. The committee is investigating the possibility of moving into a building we own within the next 3 - 5 years. Marie has info on capital campaigns; Jeff has a contact at the PDC; laurel has been reading codes. Dave has a lead on a potential realtor. Meeting was scheduled for tonight but didn't happen; we'll be rescheduling.

Q - Who is the treasurer, and what are our expenses over the year?

A - There's a wiki page for last year's budget; no wiki page for this year's budget yet. The treasurer is board member Tim Collier.

BUSINESS

What can we do to support the building committee?

Other than connecting us with wealthy people, not sure. Oso wants to put together a design competition for designing it. We've only had one meeting so far, so we don't have instructions. We're sure we'll want help, especially with the capital campaign, so stay tuned.

REMAINING COMMITMENTS

• Oso - will talk to the building group about his architecture competition idea
• martin - will ensure that he's not closing the till on March 19.
• Dave - Dave will write up something about the (financial) value of our work in the community - CARRYOVER
  • Dave has thought about this and needs to get with Marie to help him get things down.
• marie - help Dave write down his thoughts
• martin and matteo - will set up a secure wiki - IN PROGRESS

NEXT MEETING

• Facilitator: rfs
• Scribe: martin
• Consensus training: matteo
• Minutes Checker:
• Date and time: 19 March 2008, 7:15