Friday, August 31, 2012

OCP Workshop 08/29/2012


Agenda:
When should we meet
Non-negotiables
Style of meetings – seems like this style is working ok right now
Sobriety at meetings to vote or participate
Getting things on an agenda
Removing voting members

When should we meet – brainstorm:  Monday at 10:30, Evenings 5, 5:30, or 6, Saturday, Thursday morning
  • Chris:  wonders about an afternoon meeting;  is there another afternoon that would be better for Philip
  • Philip:  other than Tuesday evenings and all day Wednesday – any other afternoon, Philip would be willing to make some accomodations
  • Ron:  wonders about Friday;  Philip is ok with Friday;  Saturday might work except there are many Saturday events to work around
  • Ron:  wonders about leaving it on Wednesday and Thursday once a month – just changing it to evenings isn’t going to fix all of the problems;  people may be able to figure out ways to change their schedules;  Ron also thinks the Monday switch would be fine;  a concern about the 4-5pm slot makes Ron worry that the group might dwindle but if we keep it while we are open, we might always be catching new people – feels more ocpish to do it this way
  • Mark:  there is no way to include everyone, the meetings during a normal ocp time with once a month Thursday seems fine
  • Mike:  likes the meeting on Wednesday, if working remotely works for Philip, there might be other ways for people not at ocp to be involved as well;  this is working, we have people here, we are getting a quorum – this is mike’s biggest reason for keeping it as it is
  • Ron:  is there anyone that would like to see it on Monday?
  • Philip:  is fine with this video meeting plan so leaving it on Wednesday would work
  • David:  likes the idea of sticking with tradition, people know when this meeting is
  • Ron:  this might only be for this semester that Philip goes to Northern Va;  if we don’t hear a proposal to change the meeting day/time, we will leave it as is
  • Mark:  Proposes we change this meeting to Monday at 10:30 and keep the 2nd Thursday of the month
  • Michael:  seconds this proposal
  • Mark:  likes the idea of Philip being here in person which works on Monday
  • Mike:  this is only for a calendar semester and we may need to change it again;  issues like this come up a lot and the stability is important
  • Ron:  if Mike Farrand cannot be here on Monday, that would be a reason for Ron to stay with Wednesday; 
  • Amy, Gary Shelton, and Mike Farrand cannot be here on Monday
  • Gary:  Monday is a crowded day at OCP already and we close at 2 pm;  Gary has to work on Monday and would like to be here, Friday – the place is shut down and the day seems open for a possibility for a meeting
  • Matthew:  has some reasons why he wouldn’t want to do it on Friday –
  • Mike:  wonders if we need to figure out how to change the thing that happens on Monday if we do decide to change this meeting
  • Three voting for; seven voted against – this did not pass so we will stay with the Wednesday meeting at 10:30
 Sobriety at meetings
  • Mike:  there is a list of many other things that are meaty;  we could try to get to this topic but lets get to something more important
  • Kris:  agrees
  • David:  feels like a code of standards is important;  thinks there should be something in place that you cant do certain things
  • Philip:  would like to see us move on to something else because this doesn’t seem like an exciting thing
  • Mike:  we will be dealing with some code of behavior of the larger ocp at some point;  currently, we do all know something about good behavior and common sense
 What should be discuss next?
  • Philip:  would like to hear other people’s ideas
  • Jonathan:  would like to talk about how to get things on the agenda
  • Mike:  if we can address this quickly, mike would be behind talking about the agenda topic
  • Matthew:  would like to be able to explain his idea at some point
  • Ron:  there are a lot of ideas out there;  we are trying to lay a foundation right now for how to get to these individual ideas;  Heather said one day that we need a community meeting;  maybe we need a second sort of meeting where people can put things on an agenda, but where is the cross-over with this meeting if we were to have a second sort of meeting; 
  • Deliverables:  code of behavior, rules and regulations, purposes of ocp, framework for the community to govern itself; hours and access to building proposal; membership idea; revisiting teams as a way to get things done; programming and how this would work
  • David:  we need to get to where we are voting – maybe we should come up with a date by which we want to accomplish certain tasks – maybe we should come up with a 30 day plan
  • Claude:  agrees that we should try to pick one thing and work on it for 30 days
  • Mike:  there are two levels of discussion;  one is the functioning of this group and the other is addressing the deliverables;  maybe we can channel ideas under these broad categories so that as we get to the category, we have smaller ideas recorded;  maybe at the beginning of each meeting we can get agenda items
  • Ron:  we have set out goals and we have been accomplishing them; 
  • Mark:  has a suggestion about a community gathering
  • Sadie:  wants to see us talk about behavior
  • Teig:  what is good and bad behavior
  • Ron:  do we start with membership or do we start with purposes; 
  • Ron:  seems like some energy around talking about purposes and non-negotiables;  do we need specific purposes about this building that might be different than the larger ocp purposes
  • Ron:  next week we will start with a discussion about purposes and non-negotiables for next meeting – next Wednesday

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