I think on-list is best if the group is to spring from what is currently considered "membership".
I have been involved in a start up club-type organization in the past, and as I recall, there were several public meetings held to discuss expectations for the org before any progress began in earnest. After much discussion, a "finding committee" was formed to conduct feasability studies, establish a general road-map moving ahead, forward proposals of organization and finding a "club" space. The committee met weekly and reported to the public monthly until a charter had been established. A board of directors was then publicly elected as per the terms of the charter who then oversaw the work of the finding committee. Board meetings were publicly held until all established goals had been met. Perhaps just deciding on a meeting time and place, promoting the meeting to the general public and soliciting ideas in an open meeting would be the place to start. aj ________________________________ From: Marc Farnum Rendino <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2009 3:24:29 PM Subject: Re: VT could use one of these... Folks - Let's not lose the mo - several of us have expressed an interest in moving forward with this; shall we take the details of further discussion offline to spare the list, or continue on-list? Until then, here's a bit more to keep the discussion going: I once mis-typed it as "hackspace" - and kinda like it. It gets away from the hacker and to the hack; which might well involve more than one of us. And it riffs on "meat-space". Though I know some of us have raised concerns about anything with "hack" in it, seeing as how to word has been so abused as to re redefined, in the popular press; so how 'bout a riff on "make" instead? - Marc
