Some of us have discussed making this meeting a bit special because it’s 6 months (OK, 7 months 1 week and 1 day, that’s 218 synodic days or 216 siderial days) from the launch of our website, at Unity Day, Hyde Park, Leeds on Saturday 1st August 2009.

Agenda¶

The usual stuff¶

• Volunteers for facilitator & minute-taker/s
• Welcome new people / introductions / apologies

Suggestion: all action points get put to one side, so we can come back to them in the choosing priorities section¶

• Matters arising from minutes of last meeting
• Correspondence
  • Report of what’s been going on in the imc-uk private lists
  • Summary of correspondence to imc-northern-contact
  • Contribution/s for next Yorkshire Evening Pest
• Review of who should be on imc-northern-contact
• Review of who should be in crabgrass “active collective members” group
• Plans for outreach events
  • Meeting in Newcastle
  • Manchester / Salford
  • York
• Planned coverage
  • Bradford Mayday happenings
  • Derwent open-cast documentary
• Review of recent news stories
• New-Imc process
  • WTF! and summary for people not on the relevant lists
  • What would Mr. T do? etc.

The special stuff¶

• Make a list of our achievements in the last 6 months
  • We have published 545 things!
  • We have held x open meetings in 3 different towns!
  • We have formed a solid but flexible, happy collective!
  • We have contributed to the development of the hyperactive CMS!
  • We have supported and helped lots of campaigns!
  • We have done outreach events in a mainstream festival, a community festival, a city centre street and climate camp!
  • We have coordinated and provided coverage for at least two major news stories!
  • We have hosted (with 1in12) a Hacktionlab meeting
• What could we have done better?
  • Not taking the troll-bait?
  • Assigning a facilitator for the next meeting each time, to make sure it gets promoted and happens?

What do we want to do next months?¶

• Need to be realistic and choose our priorities
• Need 2 lists
  • action points that named people will do before the next meeting
  • strategic plans for the next 6-12 months
    • Recruiting translators
• Need a volunteer to promote & draft minutes for next meeting