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.