2009.11.03 14:00

Present: Eliza, Eos, genesis, Pema, Storm.

Apologies: Maxine.

Reference: this week's agenda

Minutes

1a Name tags

Eliza suggested we make a decision on Host tags.

Pema recalled comment made by some guardians that there is a militaristic flavor to these but that when he asked for alternatives no one on the main guardian mailing list suggested any.

Eliza commented, and Storm agreed, that people are wearing their existing tags more often at the moment anyway.

Pema suggested that one person from the WG should be spokesperson for another week to put this forward to the guardian mailing list.

genesis opined that the need for this will happen again, not just to solve the current problem. (The point being that we want to ensure that newcomers to PaB sessions are clear as to who is and, more especially, who isn't a representative of Play as Being.)

Pema suggested that if we take the current situation as an example, if we solve it for that, we may solve it for future cases too.

Eos volunteered to be the WG spokesperson to the mailing list, in line with Pema's suggestion.

1b Dealing with problem attendees

Since the tags solution (1a) was in the first instance to address the problem of newcomers getting the wrong impression about PaB if they see/hear what would be inappropriate behaviour if it were coming from a guardian, the conversation drifted into a separate new sub-topic regarding how to deal with such behaviour.