Ideas working group notes 1/18/2012

Ideas WG Meeting Notes - 1/18/2012

ANNOUNCEMENT: Our Next meeting will Feb 1st. There is no meeting on

             Wed. Jan 25th.

(The note taker arrived ~ 30 minutes into the meeting. At this point, the group was having an informal individual stack. Below are several comments and discussion points that came from individual stack.)

• As a group, we should try to balance planning for an ongoing

community meeting agenda, and continuing to gather discussion points.

• Pablo set up a web site for entering, classifying, and tagging

concerns: http://montera34.org/occupybostonideas. It's pretty neat, and each of us should take a look at it.

• We'll need to propose some form of structure in order to get people

interested in community meetings.

• Town halls and outreach are important. We should take Jeff's list

of contacts, and start making contact with these organizations.

• We agreed to start meeting every other week. This will give

individuals time to organize and work on their own outreach efforts.

• We had a volunteer to clean up/reorganize the Ideas working group

wiki page. This should happen Friday night.

• We'd like to publish some of our materials on the ideas working

group section of wiki.occupyboston.org. These resources would include our outreach letter, categorized list of concerns, and perhaps Jeff's list of community orgs/community leaders.

• A new working group met tonight; they're called "grow the

movement". This group came out of Sunday night's action assembly. Grow the movement's mission is similar to ours. We may collaborate with them. On the other hand, having several groups doing outreach might be a good thing. Grow the movement is meeting right now, and they're talking about the practice of resource mapping.

• Kudos on the outreach letter. Perhaps it could give a more

explicit reason for why community orgs should get involved with the ideas working group/Occupy Boston. But it's good enough to send as-is.

• Ideas would like to pursue some common goals with the outreach WG.

We really need to think about having a spokes council. Several Occupy Boston working groups are all doing similar things.

• Several groups are trying to bring voices into the occupy

movement. What makes the Ideas group distinct? Collect and reflect seems to be our core strategy.

• We could try to make some connections at the Citizens United events

taking place this weekend.

• Our next meeting will take place on 2/1/2012, which is two weeks

from today. We discussed a proposal from a few weeks ago -- changing the name of the Ideas working group. Try to think of names for the next meeting.

• Several people were planning to work on outreach projects,

flyering, or a combination of the two. Two individuals felt inexperienced in doing outreach, but wanted to work with others as +1's.