I don't want to shit on what is otherwise a great idea, but wasn't the AGM
in November? Does it really take two months to get to know one another?
What has (or has not) been going on in that time?
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Brianna Laugher
brianna.laug...@gmail.comwrote:
Hello members
2010/1/20 Michelle Gallaway mgalla...@gmail.com:
I don't want to shit on what is otherwise a great idea, but wasn't the AGM
in November? Does it really take two months to get to know one another?
What has (or has not) been going on in that time?
Hi Michelle,
I realise the committee has not
Michelle, from my own point of view, I really don't see it as a get to know
each other thing and if that is what I considered the meeting to be, I
wouldn't bother giving up a whole weekend and traveling to Melbourne, and I
really doubt I'm the only one who would feel that way. There's a number of
Plus, the make up of the current committee is very similar to last year's
committee. Brian, Brianna, Liam and myself were on last year's committee and
Andrew was an observer. The only truly new member is Steve. Brian, Brianna
and Liam attended the face to face meetup last year and I attended one
would you be up for posting the agenda ahead of time on the wiki - maybe
it'd be interesting to get comments on some of the issues? I'm genuinely
curious (with a smile!) as to what they may be :-)
ps. (for brianna really, I guess) - I don't know if there's anything you can
do about it, but I
I have to endorse this - while email and messaging and stuff are of course a
handy way to discuss issues, nothing has yet been invented that beats an
old-fashioned face to face conversation for making process on issues and
getting stuff done. This is a great use of the committee's time, and I
Just any issues the committee may discuss which might require fuller
discussion rather than the kind of discussion you get from emails and irc.
Our minutes are transparent and open as to the matters we discuss and which
items we feel need further investigation and consideration and discussion,
so
(By the way, I’m sure the Brisbane community would love to welcome you all
up here next time ;-) )
I for one would love this, but it probably wont happen until we get some
Queenslanders on the committee. Of course, that's not my motivation in
urging all QLD members to stand for a seat on the
ah, but fear ye not! - You can reassign votes at any time (I figured out how
to, so it must be easy ;-) - I think it's probably a good idea to 'vote
early, vote often' - particularly because it might help keep momentum in
other folk using the system?
either ways - be sure to vote big points for an
2010/1/21 Craig Franklin cr...@halo-17.net:
Getting back to the original topic of this post, is there an end-date for
the Ideascale thing? Don't want to blow my 50 gold stars on early ideas,
only for even better ideas to come up later.
Well we are meeting on the 30th, so this week rather than
Agreed with Sarah's and Brianna's comments generally. I see it as a
strategy and planning meeting - in essence, trying to get our priorities
sorted out, and that's something which can go on forever by email, but in
person with a set time available can be extremely productive. I'm coming
over from
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