[Fwd: Re: [Ssf] Lat night's meeting]

[Chris Malins]

I walked around looking for the meeting in the rain for some time last
night. Which was at best semi-satisfactory. I think that if there are
going to be meetings, there needs to be a commitment of someone at least
to definitely be there, or else we'll just put people off (cf. why its
so hard to get students involved).

My shoes are still damp.

Chris

Dan wrote:
> 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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