Process: Infoco minutes: 2008-04-27

Agenda:

Infoco/Process meeting
7pm
Present: Patti, Gail, Jillian

AGENDA

1. Checkins
2. Monkey Review
3. Facilitator/Minute taker schedule for May-Aug
4. Infoco meeting dates for the summer

Minutes:

2. Monkey review

MONKEYS from previous meetings:

Ongoing MONKEY: Sarah will make the facilitator group fun!

Ongoing MONKEY: We should all appreciate the minute takers! Many
communities struggle with this and we have been doing GREAT with it.

COOLER for Alt Meeting topic: revisit our vision statement

COOLER: Strategic planning discussion. (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.) People recently talked about the Grounds walkaround alt
meeting as a basis for a bigger picture discussion, a long range
plan. Or a discussion around turnover at GO. And that would fit in
with the budget priorities to talk bigger picture stuff. Maybe
process's fall event, we'll be 5 years in August on the land, do a
strategic planning discussion of some kind. Need to figure out how to
focus it.

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MONKEYS from the previous meeting 4/8/08

Re-MONKEY: (One message went out, Patti will try again.) Patti will
survey the 6 of us for the best meeting time May-August. And ask how
can we make it more fun and learning - get ideas, each person
assigned to come up with an activity? Not just to work on the
upcoming community meeting agenda, although that is part of what
infoco should do also.

DONE: MONKEY: Mary and Elph will need to meet separately to plan for
the 4/21 community meeting and let infoco know if we can help with
anything.

DONE: MONKEY: Gail will check in with Jim about if we can contact the
8 people who are interested in being a summer alternative meeting
leader.

DONE: MONKEY (Process will decide on 4/9): Maybe ask the 8 people who
are interested, what they're thinking of doing, could it be a part of
a regular meeting, could it perhaps be combined with some other kind
of event or alternative meeting, how time urgent is it, if it needs
to be done during warm weather, etc.

DONE: 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
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MONKEYS from this meeting 4/28/2008

MONKEY: Gail will send out the schedule info to talk.
MONKEY: Patti will work on how to schedule the infoco meeting in May.


3. Facilitation and Minute taking schedule

Gail had put printed sheets in everyone's cubby, she did get them all
back which was good, but it was challenging to get everyone slotted
in, esp since so many of us are both facilitating and minute taking.
But this was our best shot at it.

May 7: Facil point person: Alicia, minute taker: Amy H
May 19: FAcils: Sarah, Patti, minute taker: Jillian
June 4: Facil point person: Jillian, Minute taker: Catherine
June 16: FAcils: Patti, Jillian, Minute taker: Amy H
July 2: Facil point person: Sarah, Minute taker: Patti
July 21: Facils: Mary, Amy, Minute taker: Patti
Aug 6: Facil point person: Amy H, Minute taker: Jillian
Aug 18: Facils: Mary, Alicia, Minute taker Catherine

MONKEY: Gail will send out the schedule info to talk.

4. INfoco meeting dates, May-Aug

People seemed to like the idea of meeting once a month for longer,
instead of twice a month for a short time. Hope was to make the once
a month meeting, meatier, keep learning about facilitation.

Suggestion to have it include dinner, make it fun, but also make sure
we have material to work on too, not only social.

How to get the infoco meeting date in May? Too few people here
tonight to pick it tonite. The six facils need to pick a date in May
to have dinner and work on an exercise or learning. And others very
welcome to join in of course.

MONKEY: Patti will work on how to schedule the infoco meeting in May.

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