Grand Matilda opening night 27th Oct, was: Re: [matilda] Notes from the meeting on 17th October 2005

[dan at aktivix.org]

Allo,

Joe's got a point.  We're unlikely to win over suits to MATILDA's cause - but
then, the CIQ ain't just suits.  It's also a lot of people who have sympathy
with what we're doing.

MATILDA is growing by word of mouth.  What we could do is have flyers, but only
give them out to people we're talking to, so they have something on their
bedroom floor to remember MATILDA by.  (Or find out where they live, poo on
their bedroom floor and stick a little MATILDA flag in the top - that would get
them to remember too... mm, maybe stick to flyers.)

The flyers should mention about Thursday's social and Monday's meeting amongst
other things. (Did someone else say that? Can't be bothered to go back and
read!)

p.s. A few meetings ago... oh, another e-mail needed coz no-one ever reads
points needing response unless they're first thing in a mail...

Dan



Quoting Joe Morris <malatesta_uk at hotmail.com>:

> I agree with Gav, it all seems a bit pointless opening up the space to 
> people who probably don't care anyway. I mean, what is the actual reasoning 
> behind it?
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> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: <gavin at cyber-rights.net>
> To: <matilda at lists.aktivix.org>, <chris at aktivix.org>
> Subject: Re: Grand Matilda opening night 27th Oct,was: Re: [matilda] Notes 
> from the meeting on 17th October 2005
> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:18:30 -0700
> 
> It needs to be carefully run...it'll require LOTS of us to be there
> to have the hwole building open.
> 
> Also, I'm not sure why a) we need a 'grand opening' - we're already
> open!! b) we would want to invite the 'suits' and so on in to the
> rest of the building, who are basically the audience I've seen so
> far for all these kind of art events in the CIQ.
> 
> My main issue is a purely practical one - I don't have any issue
> with the art event itself, but I'm sceptical about having the rest
> of the building open. If people are willing to be there to 'staff'
> it, then okay. But we'd need to work out how many people we needed,
> and get a sign up for that.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:47:47 -0700 Chris <chris at aktivix.org> wrote:
>  >Hi
>  >
>  >I was kind of expecting *some* response to this...! :-)
>  >
>  >On Tue 18-Oct-2005 at 09:31:36AM +0100, Chris wrote:
>  >>
>  >> ...it became apparent that the opening night of Art 05 on
>  >> 27th October is actually going to be *the* Matilda opening
>  >> night...!
>  >>
>  >> I think that this means that we no longer need to hold
>  >> back with publicising the place, we should do Matilda
>  >> flyers, and some outreach to let people know the place is
>  >> open and what is happening.
>  >
>  >We have had a few flyers designed already...
>  >
>  >  https://wiki.sheffieldsocialforum.org.uk/Matildalogos
>  >
>  >Should we get some printed... (with a web address on
>  >them)?
>  >
>  >> Perhaps we should also try to get a Matilda web site
>  >> together -- we could simply have a static page or two with
>  >> information that doesn't need updating and some nice
>  >> graphics and then point to the wiki for the latest info...
>  >
>  >I have done a draft a splash page here:
>  >
>  >  http://matilda.blackfish.org.uk/
>  >
>  >It needs some more text on it...
>  >
>  >We could get www.matilda.aktivix.org as a more permanent
>  >domain name... it wouldn't cost anything and is
>  >more ecological than buying a new one... see:
>  >
>  >  http://help.riseup.net/hosting/dns/#domain_ecology
>  >
>  >What do people think (I realise that this stuff really
>  >needs to be discussed at the next meeting also... it's on
>  >the agenda already...)?
>  >
>  >Chris
>  >
>  >
>  >PS  I cleaned up the wiki font page a bit:
>  >
>  >    https://wiki.sheffieldsocialforum.org.uk/MATILDA
>  >
>  >PPS Not all events are getting listed in the events
>  >    section on the wiki... like should the hunt sab
>  >    benefit and Thursday socials and things be listed
>  >    there...?
>  >
>  >
>  >https://wiki.sheffieldsocialforum.org.uk/MATILDA#Upcoming_events
>  >
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