Process: Infoco minutes: 2007-10-09

Agenda:

Infoco meeting
7-8pm, CH sitting room

Present: Patti, Mary King, Jillian, Amy H, Diana Kardia, Karen Williams

Facilitator: Patti for Sarah
Minutes: Jillian

Agenda
1. Check ins
2. Monkey Review
3. upcoming Infoco committee meeting roles
4. November training
5. Next community meeting
6. Next infoco meeting

Minutes:

MONKEYS and COOLER ITEMS

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From previous meetings

COOLER: Strategic planning discussion

COOLER: bringing forward a pre-proposal about
giving feedback to community meetings when you
can't come to the meeting

COOLER for Alt Meeting topic: Discussion about
HOW we talk about things. It sounds like this
fall we already have topics though, but we should
keep it in the cooler.

COOLER for Alt Meeting topic: revisit our vision statement

COOLER for Alt Meeting Topic: The teacher, Grace
Bogs, that Rod and Melisa had for strategic
planning said she would do a 2-hour workshop for
free, might want to contact her for a spring alt
meeting.

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From previous meetings:

Re-MONKEY? (Rod will check): Rod will add new
facilitators to Infoco - Alicia, Robert, Megan,
any others? Should make sure Elph, Mary King, Amy
H are still subscribed

Re-MONKEY: Jillian will resend out the infoco
pre-proposal for how to give feedback to
community meetings if you can't be present.

Re-MONKEY: Jillian will check in with Alicia
about the August and June minutes to see if those
can be sent out this week.

DONE: MONKEY: Gail will bring the discussion of
GO connecting with the new Lakestone management,
to steering, and see if steering should take it
on or ask Membership to do it etc.

Re-MONKEY: Jillian will check in with Alicia
about if she is willing/planning to bring forward
the discussion about non-GO kids in the common
house to a community meeting.

DONE: MONKEY: Elph will get clipboards. (bill to process).

DONE: MONKEY: Rod will get in touch with
committees both in writing as soon as possible
about the 10/3 alternative community meeting, and
then face to face about this process, will let
Infoco folks know if he needs help in prep and
for roles during the meeting, and can potentially
ask for Infoco to meet this coming Sunday 9/30 if
more discussion is needed.

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3. upcoming Infoco committee meeting roles
(Infoco meets 2nd Tuesday 4th Sunday)

(Patti has facilitated the last two meetings,
Jillian has taken minutes the last two meetings.)

10/28 facil: Elph Minutes:
11/13 facil: Minutes:
11/25 facil: Minutes:
12/11 facil: Minutes:
12/23 (skip I assume?)



4. Nov 10 training

(Diana and Karen are in town so came to this part of the Infoco meeting.)

The topic that got the most dots was the next
"chapter" in living well with difference,
continuing last year's day:

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When Does Difference Matter?
When you think about it, there are a zillion ways
that we differ from each other - how we look,
what we feel, how we perceive things, what
matters to us, what we need, where we're heading,
what we like, what we'd never like to do ever
againŠin fact, the list of possible differences
is probably endless. So, how do we know when
difference matters? When are particular
differences worthy of our attention? When do
they deserve to be celebrated? When do they need
to be treated with care? And how do we know,
especially when these answers are moving targets?
This workshop focuses on identifying how to
recognize meaningful difference, and how to know
the best way to respond to any difference that
has presented itself.
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Diana K wants to do another brief survey like she
did last year - she will distribute it at the
community meeting on Monday, people can fill it
out then, and then return it right then and over
the next week or so.

And then there's the alternative meeting on Nov
7, which Patti and Alicia are facils for.

There are other events being organized at GO
right now, such as the Oct 21, 1-3 pm Living Well
with Children meeting with Annie Z.

We need to be clear with the community that the
Nov 10 training is not going to focus on any one
specific conflict or issue. And, learnings from
the Nov 10 training will be relevant to daily
life and ongoing issues, since we will be working
on difference and understanding eachother.

Other topics - Relations with Lakestone kids?
Does halloween make that more acute? Not really
for GO - that seems to be a Touchstone issue.
What's been happening for GO is over the summer,
we had unsupervised non-GO kids in the CH
especially, and we realized we don't have a
common understanding about what to do in that
situation, just needs some community discussion -
to date its been on email.


5. Next community meeting

10/15 budget discussion - committees are supposed
to submit budgets by 10/13 and budget cmtee will
compile and present on 10/15. Some committees did
get feedback about projects on 10/3.

Diana K has a conference call at 8pm that night,
if her item could be switched with work's that
would be helpful.

Work and rent - this has been at three previous
community meetings. Is coming for decision. Give
a thorough introduction/background about the
previous discussions so we don't rehash, and also
intro any changes since last time based on
feedback. Will create changes to work agreement
and membership policy. Work made proposed changes
to membership agreement that include some that
are just to make the proposal better organized.


6. Next Infoco meeting
10/28, 7-8pm, joint meeting with Process cmtee

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