User:Ideath

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engaging in constructive behavior

Hi! I used to be on the staff collective as the Education Coordinator (also flying under the secret superhero name of Spell Chick). Then i went back to school at Portland State. The degree i attained was BA, Political Science, but i'm still more of an anthropologist. I like documentation. I like wikis.

I'm currently volunteering at the Donation desk on Tuesday afternoons; the plan is both to get practice asking people for donations and to improve the training documentation. I also work in the Library, trying to impose some sort of order. I'm serving as the Secretary of the board. You know, helping a little bit here and there. I firmly believe FreekBoxen, as distributed, are perfectly good workhorse computers for people who want to do web browsing, email and word processing. And what else do you really need? 

Rose:  You made me look ridiculous in there.
Guil:  I looked just as ridiculous as you did.
Rose:  (an anguished cry)  Consistency is all I ask!
Guil:  (low, wry rhetoric) Give us this day our daily mask. 
                                     Tom Stoppard

These days, i am working with the local food foraging and education group Urban Edibles. I'm interested in resilience and mutual aid, sourdough bread, contra dance, open pollination literal and metaphorical, perennial food crops, knitting, formal consensus, sunlight and shadow. 

And if human personality is an illusion? And if, as biology tells us, every single cell in our body is replaced 
every seven years by another? At the most I hold in my arms something like a fountain of flesh, continuously 
playing, and in my mind a rainbow of dust.
                                      Lawrence Durrell

To write/refine:

developing council thoughts

First principles:

  • Bylaws establish Council as part of FG structure and source of short and long term vision

http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/Bylaws#Section_3._The_Free_Geek_Community_Council

  • Principles are the required guidelines for Free Geeks, to be monitored by FG-Intergalactic when it is created. includes democratic, transparent, non-hierarchical operation.

http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/Free_Geek_Principles

  • Free Geek is a "million-dollar organization", requiring strategic planning
  • we want to continue to attract and retain brilliant, dedicated and compassionate staff

Current state of the council:

  • made up of self-selected volunteers, staff, and board members who follow the email list (lists.freegeek.org/listinfo/council) and attend monthly meetings. barriers to entry mainly time, ability to attend, access email.
  • agenda partly set (mainly reports), mostly driven by items added by individual council members (often staff). tends to be reactive.
  • though priorities (the current formulation of how council reconciles/sets a big picture plan) was added to the agenda, actual discussion & planning have not much resulted from it.
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