2009.10.27 07:00 - PaB Working Group meeting

Piet/Pema proposed the following agenda:

 

1) Weekly Guardian Meetings

   Suggestion: make the Weekly Guardian Meetings closed to
   non-guardians.  Do we recommend that to the PaB group?

2) Guardian Name Tags

   We discuss the suggestion to ask guardians to wear a "PaB Host"
   name tag during PaB sessions.  This in order to make it clear to
   newcomers who to associate with PaB.   NOTE: this still does not
   solve the question of publishing the chat logs on the web, where
   non-guardians may appear to speak as representing PaB; perhaps
   the PaB listener/auto-recorder can identify who's host and who
   isn't, in some way?

3) New Guardian Candidates

   Discuss some new candidates

4) Retreat update

   Mark talked with Arabella; brief update of where we stand

5) Coordination Responsibilities

   On page   http://playasbeing.wik.is/PaB_Working_Group  we
   have started to list our individual areas of responsibility;
   Saki wrote a new draft, after she and Storm and I spent a few
   hours in front of a blackboard in Princeton, while Saki took notes.

6) Coordinator as Role Name

   The six WG members play a role as coordinators, yet they also
   delegate some of their responsibilities to other coordinators
   outside the group; would it be more clear if the WG members
   would be given another role name, different from "coordinator"?

7) A Chair for the WG?

   Do we want a rotating role of chair for the Working Group; the
   name could be "chair" or "WG coordinator" or "sweeper" (Storm's
   suggestion) or whatever to indicate that this person's responsibility
   is "the buck stops here", checking regularly whether the decisions
   made in the WG are actually followed up, and where not, gently
   the other WG members reminding them to follow up :).  This role
   may or may not be different from the agenda maker and moderator
   for weekly WG meetings; it probably should be for half a year or so,
   to give sufficient time to get deep enough into the organization to
   be able to play that role.

8) Mentor System for New Guardians and New Guardian Roles

   The idea has been put forward to instate a mentor system for new
   guardians, in two versions: one for those who become a general PaB
   guardian for the first time, and one for guardians who take on a
   weekly session for the first time.

9) Introductory PaB sessions

   Storm and Patty Barnes, from Spirit of the Senses, came up with
   the suggestion to organize special introductory PaB sessions, once
   a month or so.

10) Outreach: Community Gateway

   We may want to consider offering PaB as one of the groups that
   newbies can turn to during their initial orientation.

11) Stephanie's Web

   Stephanie's task has been growing, as a spider in an ever expanding
   web.  If there is time, this week, or later, it would be nice to hear
   from Stephanie to what extent she has been able to acquire a tree
   of (sub)coordinators and others focusing on specific tasks, and whether
   she will need additional help.

12) Unrecorded Guardian Meetings

   Pila suggested introducing unrecorded guardian meetings;
   there are clearly many options, as has been mentioned at
   several occasions, such as:
   -- SL retreat sessions of several-hours or even longer
   -- spontaneous groups of guardians setting up their own meetings
   -- organizing specific officially non-recorded guardian meetings
   and in addition we can also suggest setting up a mentor system,
   to give guardians the opportunity to talk about their experiences.

13) PaB Village

   Are there any suggestions for new events and/or structures in the
   PaB Village, perhaps in relation to retreats?

14) RL Retreats in 2010

   We have four retreats proposed for 2010, in Malta, California,
   Hawaii or Nova Scotia, and Germany, in that order.  Are we happy
   with those four, or do we want to suggest possible alternatives?
   And which place to pick for the summer?