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This thread is a general purpose clearing house for the organising our yet to be named online event. Feel free to treat the context of this thread like a wiki and edit at will.

Organising team: @manuelkublbock1 @stefan36 @riabaeck1 @kelseybreseman @joshuavial. @coopchange is open to being tagged and helping out with small tasks.

RS

Radu Seserman Sun 24 Feb 2019 8:02PM

I am interested to better understand the multiple facets of building a fair society. I want to be involved, to be part of the process. My ultimate goal is to initiate a Enspiral like community in Romania.

JV

Joshua Vial Tue 26 Feb 2019 7:45AM

@manuelkublbock1 and I had a great chat today which I will carry the thread to for the call tomorrow with @stefan36 and @kelseybreseman.

Notes are up in this document which we can use as a rolling doc for any meeting minutes we have while prepping for the event.

RB

Ria Baeck Fri 1 Mar 2019 6:03PM

As some response to the notes in the document - I'm all in to center the 'thing' we will do around questions! Of course, it takes some time to find an opening and inspiring question - but it is worth the effort!
We even could ask the presenters to bring some of their experience, knowledge, expertise AND also end their presentation with a question they are still holding, and how come? --> that will bring us all to the edge of knowing... (which I like!)

SM

Stefan Morales Wed 13 Mar 2019 5:35PM

I like that idea of ending each session with "a question they are still holding". It's so much more than just a question--rather it's some sort of inquiry that we can't seem to let go of... almost as if we still aren't satisfied with the answers we've come across. I very much appreciate that framing.

KB

Kelsey Breseman Wed 13 Mar 2019 4:38PM

Hi all, what do we see as next steps for this?

SM

Stefan Morales Wed 13 Mar 2019 5:36PM

Thank you!

JV

Joshua Vial Thu 14 Mar 2019 12:57AM

I've just finished up 15 days of retreat hosting and have got a proposal nearly finished on what I think next steps could look like. Will share shortly.

SM

Stefan Morales Wed 13 Mar 2019 5:26PM

I'm still very much committed to this. Here's what I recall from our last meeting, and pls correct me if I'm wrong! I think we have a wealth of ideas for themes, and Josh was going to post them to the wider Peer Garden community for input. I think it's still possible to target the end of March still, but I think we would need to adjust the scope if we did that: there's still a lot of unanswered questions about topics/themes, and until we sort that out, we won't have very much lead time for inviting outside guests. We can always adjust the timing tho too. I'm wondering: would folks be game for having a quick meeting soon to touch base? I see a lot of different models that could be pursued, but I think we need to nail the format/programming down, together.

SM

Stefan Morales Wed 13 Mar 2019 5:38PM

@joshuavial do you want to convene another call with folks around your schedule Josh? So long as I am gainfully unemployed (for a few more months at least), I am flexible as ever!

RB

Ria Baeck Tue 19 Mar 2019 8:37AM

I'm following from the sidelines. Happy to join, but not to take the lead!

SM

Stefan Morales Wed 13 Mar 2019 5:28PM

Oh, and Radu and I have taken a few turns on a presentation deck about Antigonish, and I've reached out to Cory Doctorow through my connection with Mark Frauenfelder to see about him joining us for a later event.

JV

Poll Created Wed 20 Mar 2019 2:25AM

I've given feedback on the proposed framing Closed Fri 22 Mar 2019 2:03AM

What do you think of the framing in this document?

I went with a generic theme of Peer Garden Stories and we can just include speakers who are close to home as a starting point.

Results

Results Option Voters
Yes 4 SM KB RS RB
No 0  
Undecided 3 JV JG MK

4 of 7 people have participated (57%)

RB

Ria Baeck
Yes
Wed 20 Mar 2019 9:04AM

Tuesday is 2ND of April, not 3rd.
And I changed 'discussions' to conversations
I'm in holiday that week, so I might join or maybe not... will depend on weather and all kind of circumstances. But please go ahead!

KB

Kelsey Breseman
Yes
Wed 20 Mar 2019 6:02PM

Thanks for coming up with a simple starting point :)

SM

Stefan Morales
Yes
Thu 21 Mar 2019 3:51AM

Looks great! We'll have to ask a few others in the community if they would like to share/present.

JV

Joshua Vial Wed 20 Mar 2019 2:34AM

I've moved forward on a few pieces of work around this
* proposed a fairly vanilla framing, let's see what emerges
* proposed some dates in the first week of April
* put up some talk ideas in trello, my sense is we go for people who are close to the community

JV

Joshua Vial Mon 25 Mar 2019 9:17PM

Just did another little push on this
* confirmed the date
* put out an invitation for presenters on the peer garden

Next steps will be to confirm speakers on March 31, get up the event invite and start a social media push to promote it.

SM

Stefan Morales Thu 11 Apr 2019 2:43AM

I popped into our Trello and made some updates here and there. Please go have a look! Cheers! :) What do folks think of having an organizing team meeting in advance of the 16th?