WG/OBIT/Minutes/120328

Proposed Agenda

 * Congratulations
 * Kendra's Article for the Occupier
 * Groups v2
 * Feedback from forums
 * Contact groups using v1
 * Next Sprint
 * Reschedule next week's meetings
 * A1, A2, A4
 * As it stands they fall on the 1st and the 4th, two big days of action.
 * Things to discuss with media
 * Tickets
 * There are a bunch of old and open tickets to take care of.

Congratulations (Outcome of the community gathering)

 * Woohoo! We had an awesome community gathering.
 * A woman who had previously worked with the FSF is planning on following up with us later.
 * One woman said she was a graphic designer and would be willing to help. Brandon has her info.
 * A couple other people might want to help out with OBIT in the future.

Kendra's Article

 * Kendra: I wrote an overview on the gathering which I want to publish in the Occupier. I sent it to the OBIT list for people to look over.  Try to do that in the next 48 hours.

Teach-Ins / Skill-Shares

 * POC is trying to get in touch with some of the community groups who might want to help with outreach/teach-ins.
 * Kendra is in touch with them working to coordinate these events.
 * Ross: we should probably re-do the wiki thing, because of poor turnout.
 * We need to more outreach about these teach-in events.
 * The next target date for a teach-in is 8 April.
 * Ross: I'm not sure that having a scheduled training at a specific time is the best strategy for approaching this problem.
 * Brandon: I think scheduling trainings with particular working groups would be a good way to go about these teach-ins (ex. Wiki with Media). We can still invite others not in that WG to come.
 * Ross: It sounds like this is a lot of work and perhaps we're overextending ourselves. We need more people.
 * Ross: Maybe we also need to train ourselves with some skill-shares.
 * The groups votes to schedule a training with media to talk about wiki's specifically.
 * Steve will take the action to discuss that with them.
 * Jeremy: we need to have a conversation what OBIT's strategy and consistent message.
 * When are we going to hold our internal skill-shares?
 * Ross: I think it would be better if Wednesdays were work meetings where we could do a skill-share when we want.
 * We voted on that and reached consensus.
 * Wednesday April 18th we'll have a GPG skill-share during the meeting, starting at 6.

Things To Talk About With Media

 * Wiki training
 * It's already mostly planned, Steve just needs to schedule it.
 * Address the SFTP thing.
 * Everyone email list
 * Funders list
 * They will soon want to send another email out.
 * Groups v2
 * Media suggested meeting on Saturday, we counter suggest the 11th.
 * Dan Cheeno says that should be ok.

Groups v2

 * Dana: I made a new banner for groups, but I thought the design motif should be about groups rather than buildings.
 * Brandon: I think we should contact FSU and Safer Spaces, the most prominent users of groups v1.
 * We should create a custom theme (base-theme zen) that will allow us to start tackling the theme).
 * Etherpad Integration
 * Not in this sprint
 * Messaging and Notifications

Next Week's Meetings

 * Sunday & Wednesday are cancelled, we'll meet at 3 on Saturday at e5.

A1

 * Crazy Shit

A2

 * Dana will hand off a sign.

A4

 * Not as a group.