Jim's idea

[Douglas Schuler]

I think Jim's idea is great!  I would really like to see a small
set of one-pagers that would help get people oriented.  I would be
happy to put together one on history.  I'd also like to see that
the principles are included because these are sometimes left out
of the discussion.  

It has been discussed in the past that we start the meetings at
6:45 with a video from the Naples Free-Net or Heartland Free-Net.
This also might be a good way to help orient new people.  Of course
this would mean getting a monitor there every time *and* a person
to show it.  Before everybody gets excited :-) I'm not volunteering
to do that particular task...  sorry.

Thanks!

-- Doug

> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 12:01:06 -0800 (PST)
> From: Jim Horton <jimh at scn.org>
> Subject: SCN General Meetings
> To: scn list <scn at scn.org>
> 
> I was thinking about the meeting last night - which went very well under 
> Kevin's leadership - that we may consider a little change to our 
> traditional format or agenda. The real purpose of the meeting is to be a 
> business meeting, with status reports from the various committees and
> discussion and voting on issues. We normally have a lot to cover in the less 
> than two hours that we have scheduled. 
> 
> Its important that our meetings remain open to anyone interested in 
> coming, whether users, IP's, volunteers, committee members or just 
> interested public. Input from all of these groups are important to our 
> decision making process, like our discussions on our web/FreePort 
> policies last night. It does get difficult to get through the business 
> portion of the meeting if we dedicate as much as half of our available 
> time to give a 'short' orientation to SCN for the new folks each meeting. 
> That is largely what Steve Mudd's new user orientation meetings are for.
> 
> What I would like to suggest is that before the next meeting, we prepare 
> some specific information sheets with our history, structure, information 
> about committees, schedules and needs, mailing lists, and whatever else 
> seems appropriate and helpful, and have them available as handouts.  
> People that want them could pick them up on their way in or out. In this 
> way, we could actually provide more information than would be possible in 
> the meeting without taking up any extra time.
> 
> If people agree that this is a good idea, I can start on putting some of 
> the information together - in fact, I think we already have some of it - 
> and I would welcome any input or suggestions or offers to help that anyone 
> would like to make.
> 
> 
> Jim
> --
> 
> Jim Horton
> jimh at scn.org                       Seattle Community Network
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