2011.02.01 Working Group Meeting

(No agenda posted.)

Record of Working Group meeting February 1, 2pm SL

Attending: Storm, Hana, Elizabeth Calvino

There was confusion about the meeting time and no agenda was distributed so some people didn’t attend the meeting. There's a Kira Board meeting on February 8 at 2pm.

1. Fund raising

The meeting focused on fund raising based on the disappointing response to Aprodite's fund raising email sent out the previous week: Storm reported that 1 person joined at $5/month, one person who had lapsed and has reinstated at $10 and 1 person has upped their subsidy from $10 to $20.  Storm believes that without any major initiative significantly different from previous appeals that response would be all he would expect and  hoped that WG members could come up with new approaches during this meeting to get more participative ideas, getting ideas from everyone. By participating in the project and getting a sense of ownership Guardians might buy into ideas more once they've had an input in shaping

Some other ideas suggested:

An email would not be the exclusive way of encouraging donations; other means could reinforce the message

1. Hana could send a request to the PaB Friends group.
2. Guardians could discuss this at the Pavilion- spreading the word
3. New Guardians be invited to become engaged in fund raising
4. We could post a donation box in the Pavilion and inside or just outside the donation box could be a link to PayPal. (Storm is in two minds about whether this box would be effective or counter-productive as apparently tip jars tend to take very small amounts and give (or can give) the overall impression that things are OK and being taken care of.
5. Aphrodite Macbain suggested that the Guardians should always say something about the important need for funds and point out the donation box at each meeting at the Pavilion.
6. Hana suggested a posting a sign at the Pavilion, indicating how much money we have/need, and how close/far we are to getting there
7. Making some kind of virtual thank you gift or recognition award.

Action: Aphrodite agreed to "prime the pump" with another Guardian email this week, first calling for ideas, then allowing people to mull ideas over beforehand and then following it up on Sunday at the Guardians meeting.

2. Art as Being
 

Storm has made the dome ready for installation and has been updating the name posts (as he ran out of time to automate it). He is visiting every day and updating posts manually. Right now, only Bleu and Bruce and Darren have posted; Bleu is sending out regular emails to remind people.

3. Next meeting February 15, 2pm