[Ssf] Lat night's meeting

[Dan]

Hi,

Amparo - sorry you got to the meeting room to find it locked!  We always 
have to ask them to open it for us, because Sharrow Community Forum 
never tell the security folk that we've booked it.

No-one else went, no?  Hmm...

Interesting!

I know this might be a bit tricky, coz Kev's just got a squillion 
business cards done with the times of the meetings on - but what does 
anyone else think about the usefulness of these meetings?  If they're 
attended at all, it's by the usual suspects / the 'core working group', 
but we don't actually use the space effectively to organise, or to put 
on anything useful to anyone else.

I'd like to make a tentative suggestion - which will make all the 
business cards useless!  But I guess having business cards isn't a 
reason for keeping something going just by themselves, so -

How about we stop having regular meetings?  We could have a go at the 
Leicester Social Forum model - no regular meetings, just events and 
meetings as and when, and of various sorts - social events, talks with 
speakers, working group meetings, etc.

We then just continue to use this list to discuss stuff, and maybe once 
every two months have some kind of convening meeting - becoming a much 
looser network, in effect, because people would just organise various 
activities, and try to get others involved!

The risk here is that, having stopped regular meetings, no-one actually 
does anything at all, and SSF just fizzles out.  But I'd say if that 
happens, then it should be apparent that there wasn't enough oomph in 
the group to make stuff happen anyway...

Anyway, write back and say what ya think - I'm sending a second e-mail 
with some specific ideas for future events and happenings.

Dan



@mparo wrote:

> Dear mariangela and pierre, and friends whose names i don't know yet,
>
> here from Sheffield, there was no meeting tonight as planned, due to
> circumstances unclear as tonight.
> There is a rumour that some killing may be involved., anyway the door
> was locked to the centre were the meeting was to be held. It was very
> dark with strong gale blowing through the streets, so the meeting was
> not attended by anyone.
> Therefore, it is implicitely agreed by IMPLICIT consensus that the
> document for Paris that you sent to the list is supported by each
> individual person of the Sheffield Social Forum in his/her own capacity.
>
> So i am signing this
> Amparo Perez Gutierrez
> Sheffield Social Forum, in her capacity
>
> ..........
>
> and suggest that this message is forwarded to every person with an 
> email address at the Sheffield SF site:
>
> www.sheffieldsocialforum.org/
>
> therefore, i will forward it to the ssf list...
>
> Good trip to Paris and Back
>
> @mp
>
> THursday December 16th, 2004
>
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