2010.04.27 14:00 Working Group Agenda

Eliza proposes the following agenda:
(in progress)

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    a. Schedule of minute-taking for six months:
        April:         Eos
        May:          SophiaSharon
        June:         Bleu
        July:          Eliza
        August:      Storm
        September:Calvino

1) Tech Issues

2) New Guardian Candidates

    Are there names members would like to put forward to the playasbeing group?

3) Fundraising & Donations Information
 
    a. Discussion of basic needs of PaB
   

        
4) Topics for Guardian Sessions

    a. After discussion in guardian sessions, how does the larger group of guardians
    feel about guardian session topics? Let's continue the discussion. How often should
    topics be set up beforehand? How will these topics be decided? How do we also
    protect the "space for spontaneity", recently discussed? 

    b. The idea has been put forth for Guardian Session field trips. What
    has been the feedback?

    
   
        
5) Guardian Sessions

    Guardian sessions are meant to be for guardians only, to discuss specific topics
    and sometimes even sensitive issues which arise. We want to protect that space
    for openness, and we also want to be polite to visitors who may drop in to see the
    gathering.

 
     a. Shall we allow visitors to 'sit in' and observe?

     b. If not, shall we make up a notecard which politely explains that these meetings
         are private, and which invites the visitor to come to a session at another time?

6) Ideas & Initiatives
 
   Let us discuss ideas and initiatives circulating in
   PlayasBeing, and how they might best be faciliated.
   
    a. "Art of Being"
    b. Chronicles/Scribes
    c. Theme Sessions
    d. Fundraising
    e. Other Ideas

7) Roles & Responsibilities

    Let us continue to discuss details and answer questions about our roles for the next six
    months. What are the highest priorities? Which guardians will we be working with most
    closely, on which tasks?

    a. Defining Roles

    b. Updating of Volunteer Community page    

    c. Creating and keeping a Handbook page

8) Handbook

    Background:

    Let us discuss the proposal by Pema to write a "PaB Handbook"
    which lists all the current PaB activities and the way they are
    divided into tasks, including meta-tasks involving coordination
    of tasks, and sometimes even coordination of coordination.
    For each of these tasks, the Handbook will contain a detailed
    description of what the task entails, and summaries of the
    experience we have built up so far in dealing with that task.
    Ideally, this handbook should allow a new person to take over
    an existing task without the previous person having to spend
    a large amount of time training the new person.  The Handbook
    will function as a repository of accumulated PaB organizational
    experience.

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