Hi all,
On 14 March 2011 13:38, Austin Hair adhair@gmail.com wrote:
As discussed at Friday's IRC meeting[0], I've started a template page[1] to help organize our work for meeting on the 24th. I know that most (if not all) of you have already made travel arrangements, so at the very least, I'd appreciate it if you could update the table with your attendance and dates. If you want to really make me happy, you can help flesh out the items already listed and/or add some of your own.
thinking about topics for working groups I realized that the schedule on Saturday (after the workiing groups) privides a session "Accountability and Legitimacy". The session, which was suggested by Erik, takes place parallel to the GLAM-session and I believe both will be attractive for chapters. GLAM becaus it is GLAM and "Erik's session" because it picks up daily problems of chapters. Many mails on the chapters' or internal mailing list and talks with chapter people show that there are lots of questions about that. And compared to movement roles issues this might be a topic which is very concrete to many chapters. And this might be important because it makes this session much more sexy than any of our working groups.
Accountability and legitimacy is an issue for movement roles as well, maybe more abstract and more global. It would be fatal to step into some kind of competition or even rivalry to this session. I would love to see us getting the best out of both, but I doubt that movement roles really rock the chapters. And therefore it sounds easy to combine both approaches but I am pretty sure it isn't. Asking myself how to realize it I have these ideas:
* ask Erik about the session's composition and estimated outcome * find out overlappings and differences * try to build up working groups considering this ** maybe a chapter related working group as preparation/supplement for the session ** maybe a topic related working group to clarify that this is not ony a chapters' issue ** maybe something completely different
* create the session's composition together with Erik and one of us and organize it with both "speakers" and a facilitator
* attend the session and participate in the discussions; then extract the outcomes into the charter
What do you think? Is this worth thinking about at all? Is there any other way to push the movement roles theme? Maybe I am the only one facing <s>a problem</ s> something to think about in the schedule. So every comment is appreciated, even if you think there is no coherence.
Regards, Alice.