[Imc] steering group notes 8-19-01
Peter Miller
peterm at shout.net
Sun Aug 19 18:16:27 UTC 2001
IMC Steering Group Meeting
8/19/01
Attending: Brian Hagy (facilitator), James Jacobs, Mike Lehman, Becca
Glaser, Sascha Meinrath, Peter Miller (note-taker), Mark Enslin, Brent
MacDonald.
Updates:
Finance things are going well. Donate to IMC audio workstation
fund. Trying to raise $1000 by October 1. Send checks made out to the IMC
with "audio workstation" in the memo. Raised $200 (after expenses) from
the Alix Olsen show. (Actually raised $280, but needed to buy equipment
for the front-room video feed.)
Print is well underway for its second issue. Paul Mueth is worried about a
shortage of articles.
Outreach: Quad Day--Mike, Aaron, Paul R. wil be there (Civic Action's
booth) and others should come on out! (11 a. -5 p.) Reporter from Parkland
came to Alix O's show and will write an article.
Tech, Librarians, Space haven't met due to vacations.
Old Things
Membership Meeting--James reported that it's jelling. *** WED at 7 P.M. at
the IMC *** The mailing went out to all members and many others (170
total) on Monday. Catering fell through, so we need people to bring
food. Don't know if Ellen has received the write-ups for the working
groups. The charrette (what's the IMC, where should it go?) will be
finished up on Tuesday evening. The celebration--Paul Kotheimer will play.
Regional IMC Meeting -- No update. Sascha said some problem with the
server slowed things down.
Decision making -- Some discussion about the 8/12 discussion. Print, in
particular has had some difficulty holding effective meetings. Don't want
consensus to be a barrier to participation. People have felt that
consensus is needed for every decision, big and small, and this has hurt
participation. Is it just a problem in a particular group, or with the
steering group and IMC as a whole? It's mostly a problem in just the print
group.
3 Issues
1) Print group issue. If print has a problem, what should
happen? Danielle will make a consensus presentation to the print group and
prepare a one-page consensus explanation.
2) Need for IMC decision-making orientation--include at Membership
meeting? (Yes.) Distribute the one-page flow chart to new IMC'ers. Make
a real effort to tell new IMC'ers about consensus during any forum aimed at
new IMC'ers.
3) When a decision needs to be made, review the process as necessary to
ensure that all understand.
Upcoming Things
Sweetcorn Festival -- 8/25. Have a little booth right outside the front of
the IMC.
Lease Renewal -- Up in January, but landlords will want a decision some
time soon. Finance has been discussing it. (If they want us out, then
we'd need at least 4 months to relocate.) Sascha will talk to the landlords.
Anti-Whine (Announcements)
Quad day, sweet corn festival, PAZ (permanent autonomous zone festival in
Louisville--labor day weekend. James, Ellen, and Paul are talking about
going); IMF/WB? (Sascha plans on going--8/28--as a reporter for the IMC,
documenting the protests.); Queeruption (San Francisco, 10/4-10/8, Becca &
Suzanne will be going. 2nd gathering of the punk, train-hopping,
squat-living, artist, queer gathering with workshops, music, and other
stuff).
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