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=Ideas Working Group=
== Meeting Times ==


==Working Group Mission Statement==
*Meetings have been set for 6pm Wednesdays, and Sunday night 9:30. The active times we have generally had public discussions are Monday nights at 7pm in the GA area and Friday nights at 7pm in the GA area.
*meetings are held across Atlantic Avenue in the Federal Reserve Plaza. As it gets colder we will meet there then go somewhere else, such as South Station.
*[[Ideas working group meeting notes]] (includes Notes from [http://wiki.occupyboston.org/11/4%20Meeting 11/4 Meeting])


The Ideas working group will actively seek out the contributions from the Occupy Boston encampment, its community of supporters, and from society at large. It will develop transparent and inclusive methods of organizing these ideas in order to facilitate their exchange and development. We will also host open discussions on widely held concerns and values, as well as around important questions of strategy.
== Upcoming Public Discussions ==


The next '''OBIdeas Public Discussion''' will be: Friday, 4 November, 7-9 in the GA Area. What do you want to discuss? [http://wiki.occupyboston.org/index.php?title=Vote_here&action=edit vote here]
*Held in the GA area, unless otherwise specified
*Topics set based on suggestions collected online [http://wiki.occupyboston.org/index.php?title=Vote_here&action=edit vote here] and on the whiteboard outside Media tent


Working group '''meetings''' (open to all): '''Sunday, 31 October 9:30-11 pm''' location: meet at the Gandhi statue '''Wednesday, 2 November 6-7 pm''' location: South Station Mezzanine (2nd floor above/behind McDonalds)
'''Friday, 11 November 7-9 in the GA area'''


[[Join the Ideas email list]] - email your ideas, get emails whenever anyone post to the list or view the archive of messages
<span style="color:#ff0000;">'''Note: this was going to happen Monday 7 November but there was a DubStep concert'''</span>


[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/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:WG-ideas]]  You can also create your own user page by clicking on your name in the upper right.
Order of Events:


==Meeting Notes==
*Explain goal of the evening: have everyone collectively generate a statement of Occupy Boston's values that can act as a guide of what to add to the [[Statement of Purpose]]
[[Ideas Working Group Meeting Notes]]
*Why not focus on actions, demands, methods tonight? One of our goals in the Ideas group is to ''try'' to help grow a statement that all of Occupy Boston can get behind. One idea to do this is to start with VALUES.
*Examples of switching actions, demands, methods and statements to VALUES:
**"go after your congressman!" -> &nbsp;value:&nbsp;accountability
**"correct fundamental inequalities" -> value:&nbsp;fairness
**"shouldn’t demonize conservatives because they disagree" -> value:&nbsp;inclusivity


[[Ideas Public Discussion Notes]]
*We will have 3 parts of the meeting:


Below are some ideas we have been discussing, voting on, and collecting. Check out the Discussion tab for more.
1. Overview of collected responses for the past few weeks to the question: "What are the values that we, as Occupy Boston, all share?" here are word clouds made from this collected information:


==Discussion and Background about Demands and Values==
[[File:Ideas values raw.png|300x358px|RTENOTITLE]][[File:Ideas values reworded.png|300x383px|RTENOTITLE]]
- The approved [[Road_Map|Statement of Purpose]]


- SPECIFIC PROPOSED LANGUAGE for a [[Road_Map|Message Statement]] (aka "the Roadmap") and associated edits/discussion. Detailed workpage on [[Ideas Statement New Title|a new title]].
We will break out into groups and add change, and discuss this list. We will then come back to the larger group and report on small group break out discussions.


- [[Human Rights]] workpage
2. We will break out into new groups and decide on what values on this list do people feel should go into the [[Statement of Purpose]]. This could be any amount of values, but we are suggesting 2-5 for this first attempt. We will then come back to the larger group and report on small group break out discussions.


- [[Strategies,_Proposals,_Positions|Other ideas/reforms and discussions]]. NOTE: this is the old SPP page, cleaned up a bit.  NOTHING IS MISSING. Don't worry.
3. Lastly, we will split again into groups and see if we can write a sentence or two that expresses the values collaboratively decided in Step 2 into the [[Statement of Purpose]]. Groups can start:


- DISCUSSION ARCHIVES
*with a BLANK piece of paper
*a copy of the [[Statement of Purpose]] to edit, or
*have an action question that they are answering: - What are the values, that we, as Occupy Boston Share? or: - What is the mission, that we, as Occupy Boston Share?


Older [[talk:statement of purpose|discussions]] about the original statement of purpose
We will then come back to the larger group and report on small group Statements and edits. This will go a long way to adding to the [[Statement of Purpose]]


'''Followup''' We will post all of the Statements and notes from this meeting in a new page called [[Values Addendum to Statement of Purpose]] as well as post the proposed changes to the [http://main.wirite.org/documents/20/ Occupy Boston Statement of Purpose] on the site [http://wirite.org Wirite] where the changes can continue to be worked on:


[[File:WiriteForOB.png|400x194px|WiriteForOB.png|link=http://main.wirite.org/documents/20/]]


== [http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Education Education and Reading] ==


A list of interesting reading and analysis.


==Transcribed banners==
<br/><br/>Want to set the agenda for future Public Discussions? [[Vote here]]
We will continue to post questions on whiteboards, banners, and the giant notepad in the Library, transcribe them and explore new and useful ways of presenting the ideas.
'''
To contribute to the wordclouds below, click the question at the left, click edit on the top right, and then add your response''' (Note: you must first create a user account before you register. Please do!). We will periodically update the wordclouds until we figure out a way to have them update in real time.


Also check out www.wearebeings.org for more cool word clouds
[[Join the Ideas email list]] - email your ideas, join the online conversation, and view the archive of discussions


===[[What's Wrong with our Country?]]===
[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/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:WG-ideas]] You can also create your own user page by clicking on your name in the upper right.
[[File:What'sWrong WordCloud2.jpg|RTENOTITLE]]
 
===[[What's Right with our Country?]]===
[[File:What'sRight WordCloud.jpg|RTENOTITLE]]
 
===[[Why do you Occupy?]]===
[[File:WhyWeOccupy WordCloud2.jpg|RTENOTITLE]]
 
Testaments of the 99% (would not upload)

Latest revision as of 21:29, 9 November 2011

Meeting Times

  • Meetings have been set for 6pm Wednesdays, and Sunday night 9:30. The active times we have generally had public discussions are Monday nights at 7pm in the GA area and Friday nights at 7pm in the GA area.
  • meetings are held across Atlantic Avenue in the Federal Reserve Plaza. As it gets colder we will meet there then go somewhere else, such as South Station.
  • Ideas working group meeting notes (includes Notes from 11/4 Meeting)

Upcoming Public Discussions

  • Held in the GA area, unless otherwise specified
  • Topics set based on suggestions collected online vote here and on the whiteboard outside Media tent

Friday, 11 November 7-9 in the GA area

Note: this was going to happen Monday 7 November but there was a DubStep concert

Order of Events:

  • Explain goal of the evening: have everyone collectively generate a statement of Occupy Boston's values that can act as a guide of what to add to the Statement of Purpose
  • Why not focus on actions, demands, methods tonight? One of our goals in the Ideas group is to try to help grow a statement that all of Occupy Boston can get behind. One idea to do this is to start with VALUES.
  • Examples of switching actions, demands, methods and statements to VALUES:
    • "go after your congressman!" ->  value: accountability
    • "correct fundamental inequalities" -> value: fairness
    • "shouldn’t demonize conservatives because they disagree" -> value: inclusivity
  • We will have 3 parts of the meeting:

1. Overview of collected responses for the past few weeks to the question: "What are the values that we, as Occupy Boston, all share?" here are word clouds made from this collected information:

RTENOTITLERTENOTITLE

We will break out into groups and add change, and discuss this list. We will then come back to the larger group and report on small group break out discussions.

2. We will break out into new groups and decide on what values on this list do people feel should go into the Statement of Purpose. This could be any amount of values, but we are suggesting 2-5 for this first attempt. We will then come back to the larger group and report on small group break out discussions.

3. Lastly, we will split again into groups and see if we can write a sentence or two that expresses the values collaboratively decided in Step 2 into the Statement of Purpose. Groups can start:

  • with a BLANK piece of paper
  • a copy of the Statement of Purpose to edit, or
  • have an action question that they are answering: - What are the values, that we, as Occupy Boston Share? or: - What is the mission, that we, as Occupy Boston Share?

We will then come back to the larger group and report on small group Statements and edits. This will go a long way to adding to the Statement of Purpose

Followup We will post all of the Statements and notes from this meeting in a new page called Values Addendum to Statement of Purpose as well as post the proposed changes to the Occupy Boston Statement of Purpose on the site Wirite where the changes can continue to be worked on:

WiriteForOB.png




Want to set the agenda for future Public Discussions? Vote here

Join the Ideas email list - email your ideas, join the online conversation, and view the archive of discussions

Join the wiki. Have some ideas you are developing? Consider putting a link to them in the group workspace: User:WG-ideas You can also create your own user page by clicking on your name in the upper right.