2009.10.20 07:00 - PaB Working Group meeting

Piet/Pema proposed the following agenda:

1) New Scribe Initiatives

   Following up on last Sunday morning's plenary discussions, shall we
   send out Pema's draft to the whole group?

2) Guardian Candidate Selection

   Following our internal discussion, shall we send out Eliza's draft
   to the whole group?

3) New Guardian Candidates

   Discuss a couple new candidates

4) When to Delete Parts of a Chat Log

   Discuss recent instances

5) Retreat policy

   Mark and Saki and Piet discussed retreat policy on the phone,
   and proposed to keep retreat admission very simple: only PaB
   guardians are admitted to retreats, no matter how long or short
   they have been guardians.  At the same time, we will not rush
   to offer anyone guardianship just because they want to attend
   the next retreat.

6) 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

7) 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.

8) 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.

9) 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)

10) 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?

11) 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.