Council 2010 02
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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.
- 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.
General Priorities: Martin (OLD)
Organizing unmet needs
Discussion of council recruitment
From email input (if we have time?)
REMAINING COMMITMENTS
- New commitments, and Carry-Overs copied from above.
- laurel1.0 - integrate items from 06/2009 meeting into general priorities - CARRYOVER
Next Meeting
- Facilitator:
- Scribe:
- Minutes Checker:
- RT Jockey:
- Reporters to other meetings?
- Date and time:
- Place: Free Geek PDX meeting room
- List of unfinished business for the next meeting: