2009.10.13 07:00 - PaB Working Group meeting

Piet/Pema proposed the following agenda:

1) Coordination Responsibilities

   On page   http://playasbeing.wik.is/PaB_Working_Group  we
   have started to list our individual areas of responsibility;
   Saki wrote the first draft, I made a pass over it, but we
   probabibly want to rephrase things a bit more:

   Eliza Madrigal: Guardians-on-Call/Scribes/Chronicles Operations Coordinator
   Eos Amaterasu: RL/SL Retreat Coordinator
   Genesis Zhangsun: PaB Books Project Coordinator/Editor
   Maxine Walden: Kira Workshops Coordinator/Kira Team Liason
   Pema Pera: Theme Sessions Coordinator
   Storm Nordwind: Platform Development Coordinator

2) Chat Log Chasing.

   Stephanie and I have had some exchanges about chat log chasing,
   and how to orchestrate that with Scathach, who has done the brunt
   of that work for several months now.  We can be brief about this,
   but it would be good to discuss this in the group, for general
   policy, and then Stephanie and Piet can work out the details
   off-line.

3) 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.

4) PaB Village

   Are there any suggestions for new events and/or structures in the
   PaB Village, perhaps in relation to retreats (see also (2) above)

5) Retreat policy

   In August we allowed only PaB guardians, and only for the full
   duration of the retreat.  During the Princeton mini-retreat it
   is again guardians only, but people can come and go.  Would we
   like to suggest a general policy, to be ratified by the whole
   PaB group?  If so, what criteria do we propose?

   In addition, we have four retreats proposed for 2010, in Malta,
   California, Hawaii, and Germany, in that order.  Are we happy
   with those four, or do we want to suggest possible alternatives?
   For example, Mark mentioned Cape Breton in Nova Scotia as a
   potential summer place.

6) Changes in Membership of the Working Group

   We have all agreed to serve on the PaB Working Group for half a
   year.  Most likely some of us would like to rotate out and some
   of us will be happy to stay on for one or more half year periods.
   Can we suggest a policy, to be ratified by the whole PaB group,
   to determine how these transitions will take place?  For example,
   if there are more candidates eager to join us than there are WG
   members eager to step down, what procedure shall we use to come
   to a solution?

7) 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.