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− | When: | + | When: 1266462632 unix time |
− | <br>Place: | + | <br>Place: Free Geek PDX meeting room |
− | <br>Facilitator: | + | <br>Facilitator: Jiro/Richard |
− | <br>Scribe: | + | <br>Scribe: Martin |
− | <br>Minutes Checker: | + | <br>RT Jockey: Vagrant |
− | <br>Attendance: | + | <br>Minutes Checker: Debra |
+ | <br>Attendance: jiro, debra, martin, vagrant, board jon, ryan, daniel, steve, richard, dave, ali (late) | ||
<br>Last meeting: | <br>Last meeting: | ||
+ | == Consensus Training - Jiro == | ||
+ | Deep democracy concepts | ||
+ | * Ranks (power) | ||
+ | ** Social rank | ||
+ | ** Knowledge rank | ||
+ | ** Psychological rank | ||
+ | ** Spiritual rank | ||
+ | ** Local rank | ||
+ | ** Contextual rank | ||
+ | * Conflicts occur when two parties each feel lower ranked than the other | ||
+ | ** It is easy to miss the ways in which you are powerful. Celebrate your powers, use them joyfully, and you can better see how others view you. | ||
== COMMITMENTS == | == COMMITMENTS == | ||
− | + | * laurel1.0 - integrate items from 06/2009 meeting into general priorities - CARRYOVER | |
− | + | * dave - proposal for agenda item deadline - DONE | |
− | * | ||
== REPORTS == | == REPORTS == | ||
− | + | * [[State of the Onion]] | |
− | * State of the Onion | + | *: Learn to use the "History" link! |
− | * | + | * [[Staff]] |
+ | * [[Board of Directors]] | ||
+ | *: Nothing notable | ||
+ | * [[Space Cadets]] | ||
+ | *: Continuing progress on unchanged plans. | ||
+ | * Hardware grants survey results | ||
+ | *: ~70% of computers still in use, half of those with the original ubuntu | ||
== BUSINESS == | == BUSINESS == | ||
− | === | + | === Agenda item deadline: Dave (NEW) === |
− | * | + | *: We have grown to the point that our big-picture topics are too much for a once-a-month, casual meeting to cover. Last-minute proposals come in without sufficient background information, and even the most present and aware staff members still feel the need to research a topic before they get discussed. |
− | *:( | + | * PROPOSAL: Council will enforce a strict deadline for additions to the agenda of both discussion items and proposals. Facilitator has the discretion to override this for emergency items. |
− | * | + | * Discussions could still birth new proposals; this is intended to encourage knowledgeable discussion and the positive effects thereof. |
− | ** | + | * Poorly-researched items can still slip past the facilitator - they are not omniscient - but this is still a positive change. |
− | * | + | * This stands to improve our documentation archival, somewhat. If we need to, we could start giving proposals IDs. |
− | ** | + | * CONSENSUS on this proposal (yay!). |
− | * | + | * For the time being, let's set our deadline to one week. Encourage people to get their items out before then, though. |
− | *: ( | + | * COMMIT - Richard will edit the meeting-minder to fit the one-week deadline. |
− | ** | + | === [[General Priorities]]: Martin (OLD)=== |
− | + | *: Organizing unmet needs | |
+ | * Tabled to next month | ||
+ | === Discussion of council recruitment === | ||
+ | *: We need more background information on this. Someone should put links to the council list for next month. | ||
+ | === From Matthew and Wren's email input (if we have time?) === | ||
+ | *: Discussion on the list, started by Matthew. | ||
+ | * Debra: I believe Matthew is correct in pointing out (without using the words) that we do not have sufficient Access to Power, Trust or Respect. | ||
+ | * Dave: We are doing much better than ever before in breaking up cliques. We are giving computers to more people than ever. Staff respects and appreciates volunteers more than ever. Previously over-empowered volunteers may see this as a loss of power. | ||
+ | * Martin: Are there suggestions for strengthening those three areas? | ||
+ | * Martin: For instance, using survey data would more would give more power to people who can't come to council (and do the research needed to participate). | ||
+ | * Richard: "Anybody" and "everybody" should be qualified: the power should be limited to the members of the Free Geek community | ||
+ | * Vagrant: Earlier days saw people more easily come in with a skillset and take on a project. Now, the more formalized volunteer intake prevents this (but comes with significant gains). Actively preventing equal access to power is more important to avoid. | ||
+ | * Jon: Can we streamline having your voice heard? Council-ombudsman helps. Surveys may work. Comment cards, appropriately used, maybe. The cost of entry may (or may just feel) too great to overcome for many. | ||
+ | * Debra: Council-ombudsman is helpful, but nobody knows about them. | ||
+ | * Ali: Creating a group of informed community members, ala council, is important, but offering lower-commitment channels is happening all over. Council should be people committed to the long-term vision of free geek, and it shouldn't be the only place volunteers can access power. | ||
+ | * Debra: Inreach and I talked about having suggestion box or survey form to make suggestions, comments, ask questions, complain, or whatever, which was indicated to be "in progress". | ||
+ | * Daniel: Continuous feedback is critical to improvement. | ||
+ | * Ali: We could really easily make a box. | ||
+ | * Debra: I want to see this on our website, with posters everywhere to point people to it. | ||
== REMAINING COMMITMENTS == | == REMAINING COMMITMENTS == | ||
: New commitments, and Carry-Overs copied from above. | : New commitments, and Carry-Overs copied from above. | ||
− | * | + | * martin - integrate items from 06/2009 meeting into general priorities - CARRYOVER |
− | * | + | * richard - edit the meeting-minder to fit the one-week deadline |
− | |||
== Next Meeting == | == Next Meeting == | ||
− | * Facilitator: | + | * Facilitator: Dave |
− | * Scribe: | + | * Scribe: Ali |
− | * Minutes Checker: | + | * Minutes Checker: Richard |
+ | * RT Jockey: Martin | ||
* Reporters to other meetings? | * Reporters to other meetings? | ||
− | * Date and time: | + | * Date and time: March 17 |
− | * Place: | + | * Place: Free Geek PDX meeting room |
* List of unfinished business for the next meeting: | * List of unfinished business for the next meeting: | ||
+ | [[Category: Council]] | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[Category: Minutes]] |
Latest revision as of 17:38, 6 July 2010
When: 1266462632 unix time
Place: Free Geek PDX meeting room
Facilitator: Jiro/Richard
Scribe: Martin
RT Jockey: Vagrant
Minutes Checker: Debra
Attendance: jiro, debra, martin, vagrant, board jon, ryan, daniel, steve, richard, dave, ali (late)
Last meeting:
Consensus Training - Jiro
Deep democracy concepts
- Ranks (power)
- Social rank
- Knowledge rank
- Psychological rank
- Spiritual rank
- Local rank
- Contextual rank
- Conflicts occur when two parties each feel lower ranked than the other
- It is easy to miss the ways in which you are powerful. Celebrate your powers, use them joyfully, and you can better see how others view you.
COMMITMENTS
- laurel1.0 - integrate items from 06/2009 meeting into general priorities - CARRYOVER
- dave - proposal for agenda item deadline - DONE
REPORTS
- State of the Onion
- Learn to use the "History" link!
- Staff
- Board of Directors
- Nothing notable
- Space Cadets
- Continuing progress on unchanged plans.
- Hardware grants survey results
- ~70% of computers still in use, half of those with the original ubuntu
BUSINESS
Agenda item deadline: Dave (NEW)
- We have grown to the point that our big-picture topics are too much for a once-a-month, casual meeting to cover. Last-minute proposals come in without sufficient background information, and even the most present and aware staff members still feel the need to research a topic before they get discussed.
- PROPOSAL: Council will enforce a strict deadline for additions to the agenda of both discussion items and proposals. Facilitator has the discretion to override this for emergency items.
- Discussions could still birth new proposals; this is intended to encourage knowledgeable discussion and the positive effects thereof.
- Poorly-researched items can still slip past the facilitator - they are not omniscient - but this is still a positive change.
- This stands to improve our documentation archival, somewhat. If we need to, we could start giving proposals IDs.
- CONSENSUS on this proposal (yay!).
- For the time being, let's set our deadline to one week. Encourage people to get their items out before then, though.
- COMMIT - Richard will edit the meeting-minder to fit the one-week deadline.
General Priorities: Martin (OLD)
- Organizing unmet needs
- Tabled to next month
Discussion of council recruitment
- We need more background information on this. Someone should put links to the council list for next month.
From Matthew and Wren's email input (if we have time?)
- Discussion on the list, started by Matthew.
- Debra: I believe Matthew is correct in pointing out (without using the words) that we do not have sufficient Access to Power, Trust or Respect.
- Dave: We are doing much better than ever before in breaking up cliques. We are giving computers to more people than ever. Staff respects and appreciates volunteers more than ever. Previously over-empowered volunteers may see this as a loss of power.
- Martin: Are there suggestions for strengthening those three areas?
- Martin: For instance, using survey data would more would give more power to people who can't come to council (and do the research needed to participate).
- Richard: "Anybody" and "everybody" should be qualified: the power should be limited to the members of the Free Geek community
- Vagrant: Earlier days saw people more easily come in with a skillset and take on a project. Now, the more formalized volunteer intake prevents this (but comes with significant gains). Actively preventing equal access to power is more important to avoid.
- Jon: Can we streamline having your voice heard? Council-ombudsman helps. Surveys may work. Comment cards, appropriately used, maybe. The cost of entry may (or may just feel) too great to overcome for many.
- Debra: Council-ombudsman is helpful, but nobody knows about them.
- Ali: Creating a group of informed community members, ala council, is important, but offering lower-commitment channels is happening all over. Council should be people committed to the long-term vision of free geek, and it shouldn't be the only place volunteers can access power.
- Debra: Inreach and I talked about having suggestion box or survey form to make suggestions, comments, ask questions, complain, or whatever, which was indicated to be "in progress".
- Daniel: Continuous feedback is critical to improvement.
- Ali: We could really easily make a box.
- Debra: I want to see this on our website, with posters everywhere to point people to it.
REMAINING COMMITMENTS
- New commitments, and Carry-Overs copied from above.
- martin - integrate items from 06/2009 meeting into general priorities - CARRYOVER
- richard - edit the meeting-minder to fit the one-week deadline
Next Meeting
- Facilitator: Dave
- Scribe: Ali
- Minutes Checker: Richard
- RT Jockey: Martin
- Reporters to other meetings?
- Date and time: March 17
- Place: Free Geek PDX meeting room
- List of unfinished business for the next meeting: