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== Working Group Meeting Times ==
== Working Group Meeting Times ==


Ideas Working Group meets at 6pm on Wednesdays at the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center, 38 Ash St., Chinatown.
The Ideas Working Group normally meets 7:00--9:00pm, on the first and third Wednesdays of the month.
We also meet at 2:30 pm on Saturdays at E5, which is on the 5th floor of Unite Here, 33 Harrison Ave, Chinatown. The Saturday location is subject to change.
To sign up for text updates of meeting locations and times, text "@OBideas" to 23559.


Cooming Soon: The ideas working group will be holding topic-focused open political discussions at 7pm on non-GA nights - Monday, Wednesday, and possibly Friday. We need indoor space for these discussions! If you know of any, let us know by emailing ideas@lists.occupyboston.org
Topics and meeting locations will be announced here.
 
*[[Ideas working group meeting notes]]


If you have questions about meeting places or times, send them to [mailto:ideas@lists.occupyboston.org ideas@lists.occupyboston.org].  Someone on the mailing list should be able to answer them.


== Stay Connected and join the conversation ==
== Stay Connected and join the conversation ==


* [[Join the Ideas email list]] - email your ideas, join the online conversation, and view the archive of discussions
*[[Join the Ideas email list]] - email your ideas, join the online conversation, and view the archive of discussions
*[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup&returnto=Main_Page Join the wiki]. Have some ideas you are developing? Write them up and add a link. Wikis are easy to use. [[How to Become Less Wiki Challenged]] will get you up and running in no time!
*[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Future_of_Occupy Future of Occupy notes]


* [[index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup&returnto=Main_Page|Join the wiki]]. Have some ideas you are developing? Consider putting a link to them in the group workspace: [[User:user:WG-ideas|User:WG-ideas]] You can also create your own user page by clicking on your name in the upper right.
{{:WG/Strategies/Ideas/Minutes}}


== Ideas Working Group Materials ==
== Ideas Working Group Materials ==
 
* [[Concerns Outreach Letter]]
* [[Public Meetings/Public Discussions]]
* [[Action Assembly II]]
* [[100 great political objectives]]
* [[Concerns Data]]
* [[Concerns Data]]
* [[Declaration of Occupation]]
* [[Ideas working group values data]]
* [[100 great political objectives]]
* [[Occupy Boston Summit Notes]]
** [[Occupy Boston Summit Notes - Overflow Room|Notes from the Overflow Room]]


== Public Discussion Minutes & Notes ==
== Additional Materials ==


* [[Future of Occupy]].  These are notes from the June 1st 2012 Popular Assembly meeting.  Ideas did not plan/organize this meeting.  However, the material is similar to some of the work that ideas has been doing.
* [[Declaration of Occupation]]
* [[Occupy Boston Summit Notes]].  Also, notes from the [[Occupy Boston Summit Notes - Overflow Room|overflow room]]




 
[[Category:Inactive Working Groups]] [[Category:Ideas WG]].
=== Friday, 11 November ===
 
VALUES that came out of the meeting:
 
*knowledge
**education
**awareness
**information
**transparency
*unity
*change x2
*respect
**diversity
*making "freedom" bigger
*non-violence x2
*peaceful
*consensus
*horizontal democracy x2
*solidarity
*equality
*fairness
*concern for others x2
*freedom
*positivity
*generosity
*compassion
*sustainability
*honesty
*unity
*cooperation
*mutual aid
*resistance to oppresion
*kindness
*empathy
*dialogue
*civility
 
<br/>SENTENCES that came out of the meeting:
 
*In an effort to create a more just and sustainable socitey, we will strive to embody the values of: inclusivity, honesty, non-violence, comapssion, cooperation, and ecological integrity.
*We seek to foster a cuture of inclusivity, a practice of sustainability, and a spirit of compassion.
*We beleive that in working towards change, we need to pread knowledge while maintainin a unity based on respect
 
[[File:Ideas values raw.png|300x358px|RTENOTITLE]]\
 
Original word cloud that was used to start the evening's discussion (word coud data collected from surveying the camp to answer the question "What values do we, as Occupy Boston, all share?"
 
<br/>see all [[Ideas working group values data]].
 
=== Friday, November 4 ===
 
Facilitator: Marty Facilitator: Forest Minutes: Mallory Stack Taker: None
 
The discussion followed this format:
 
*Introduction (10 minutes)
*Breakout Group Formation (individuals on stack) (20 minutes)
*Group Discussions (45 minutes)
*Group Stack/Presentations (10 minutes per group x 3 groups = 30 minutes)
*Conclusion/Summary
 
Breakout groups were formed after an opening discussion about what people wanted to talk about. The three breakout groups were:
 
*Local Issues
*Occupy as Paradigm Shift
*Functional divisions in the movement and occupy boston (i.e. offline/online, onsite/offsite)
 
Some noted questions/comments that resulted at the end of discussion:
 
*How does occupy reach into rural areas? Also, what about occupy gardens/farms?
*How to include people whose time is filled with work obligations (i.e. how to occupy time the same way we are currently occupying space)?
*"laboratory space" to describe our ideas discussions.
 
Two functional issues with discussion format identified by facilitator (Forest) were:
 
*Breakout groups for the most part lacked facilitation, stack taker, timekeepers, or minute recorders. In the future groups should ideally follow an established process for discussion.
 
*People who tended to agree seemed to clump together in the smaller groups. Maybe experimenting with starting groups with members randomly assigned and *then* applying law of two feet would be worthwhile? Also, instructing group initiators to make sure their group has someone taking stack?
 
[[Category:Working groups]] [[Category:WG-Ideas]]

Latest revision as of 21:26, 22 January 2013

Working Group Meeting Times

The Ideas Working Group normally meets 7:00--9:00pm, on the first and third Wednesdays of the month.

Topics and meeting locations will be announced here.

If you have questions about meeting places or times, send them to ideas@lists.occupyboston.org. Someone on the mailing list should be able to answer them.

Stay Connected and join the conversation

Ideas WG Meeting and Discussion Notes

Ideas Working Group Materials

Additional Materials

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