Process: Infoco minutes: 2007-07-08

Minutes:

Infoco meeting

Present: Patti, Sarah, Alicia, Jillian, Mary after her dinner clean

Agenda
1. Infoco meeting schedule for the summer
2. Items for the May 19 community meeting

1. Infoco meeting schedule for the summer

Idea is to meet once a month, for longer, instead of twice a month
for short meetings. Goal is to talk briefly about the upcoming
regular community meeting, and then have time to work on learning
more facilitation skills and support eachother in regards to being
facilitators. We want to make it a group that we look forward to
being in, that learns together as well as has fun together. Involving
food!

We went around and around looking for dates that everyone who is
assigned to a facilitation slot this work season could make. Tough to
do, esp in summer perhaps. But here is what we came up with, where we
seemed to have at least 5 out of 6 of us for some of the time, and
sometimes maybe all 6 of us all the time.

- Sunday, June 15, 6:15-8:30pm. Those that want to, can sign up for
CH dinner and ask the cooks to do a takeout combo for us, if they
would. Those that don't want CH dinner, can bring something else. We
will meet at Sarah's house. (This is father's day so it does not work
for Mary King, and Alicia will need to be late, but it was literally
the only day in June that would work.)

MONKEY: Jillian and Patti will come up with some material for us to
work on on June 15 (an exercise, role play, game, whatever) to learn
facilitation-related skills.

- Friday July 11, 6:30-8:30pm. Potluck dinner and learning party!
We'll make it fun for a Friday night. Not sure whose house yet, maybe
continue at Sarah's if she wants to.

MONKEY: Sarah and Alicia will come up with some material for us to
work on on July 11.

- Tuesday August 5th, 6-8pm. Those that want to, can sign up for CH
dinner and ask the cooks to do a takeout combo for us, if they would.
Those that don't want CH dinner, can bring something else.

MONKEY: Amy and Mary will come up with some material for us to work
on on Aug 5. (Mary King has something in mind.)

Sarah says she can help with prep if you have an idea you need work
ahead for. Jillian is happy to host any time, whenever Sarah does not
want to.


2. Next community meeting

Process wants to bring back the "input in absentia" proposal for
approval, but Jillian will be taking minutes, and Gail and Catherine
will both be out of town that day! Patti and Sarah facilitating,
Alicia is already presenting, and Mary King will have her mom in
town. Hm! Maybe someone will be able to jump in and take minutes
during that section and Jillian can present.

Alicia is going to introduce the agenda item for the next community
meeting of Non-GO kids in the CH.

(Note, there are other conversations that are related but not the
same - such as, unsupervised GO kids in the CH; non-GO kids outside
on campus, etc - but for this time slot we are just focused on non-GO
kids in the common house. We can only take on one piece at a time.)

Alicia - I thought about having statements and having people identify
with different statements talk about that. What should the 3 to 5
statements be?

ideas -

- Is a GO kid an appropriate supervisor for a non-GO kid? At what
age? 12 yr old vs 4 yr old etc.
- Non GO kids in CH only with an adult?
- Non-GO kids passing through (to get a drink of water) vs non-GO
kids hanging out
- Eating CH food, whether they are supervised by adults or kids or not
- Should every GO member engage with a child they meet in the common
house that they don't know. Every time, and what to ask. And then to
call the responsible adult?
- What does engagement look like, given the variety of perspectives?

What is the goal for the agenda item? Long term goal is to have a
policy so we can be consistent with non-GO kids. Going hand in hand
with that may be supporting GOers in a greater comfort level of being
able to engage with kids. Help, training, advice, etc. Or maybe it
could be your responsibility to go find someone to help you if you
are not comfortable engaging.

It makes it way more comfortable for GOers if we know that everyone
else is saying the same thing as we are. We know what to do. And it
ends up being more fair to the kids.

Goal from the first community meeting, listen to eachother, and then
an ad hoc group can form to write up a first draft of a policy and
bring that back. Or, if no one else steps forward perhaps Alicia and
Process can keep working on it. Or either way Process can help - it
can be an agenda item at process meetings if people want to discuss
it there, but we need interested folks to come and to keep working on
it.

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