[Ssf] Re: Last meeting why not prior notice?

[Kevin Gillan]

I'm sorry about the meeting Amp. There is no explanation except that a 
bunch of individuals all independently decided that they couldn't make 
the meeting for whatever reasons, and as often happens in these 
situations, everyone assumed that other people would make it so it 
wouldn't matter.

Its not really in keeping with the way we work (or fail to work) that 
one person takes all the responsibility for particular aspects, though 
if we did have a secretary, treasurer, chair etc then obviously this 
sort of thing could be avoided by one person taking responsibility for 
the meeting room being opened etc. Again, I think it highlights a need 
for a more organised approach (e.g. facillitation rota) and a stronger 
norm of responsibility to the group (i.e. if you know you can't make the 
meeting email apologies to the group; personally I'll try to do this in 
future).

So, while a wrong certainly needs to be recognised and corrected for the 
future, I think that the idea of an 'us' deserving an explanation from 
'them' unnecessarily and inaccurately divides the group. The social 
forum movement is a constellation of connections, temprorarily made - 
today we are the people on the mailing list, on thursday we might have 
been the people in the room, tomorrow we might be the world, who knows? 
If people have expectations of the social forum then they should bring 
them into the forum, explicitly raise them, and share in the task of 
bringing them to fruition if the momentary connection that creates the 
group feels that it is within its power.


K

robin&amparo wrote:
> If you knew that someone was working on an agenda for last Thursday, why 
> didn't you give a notice that there would be no meeting, so as to 
> postpone it?
> Or otherwise, why didn't you inform the persons concerned about all the 
> other details, security people, key etc.?
> 
> It was not well done. More persons could have turned up, since the 
> meeting was publicly advertised.
> 
> There has been disregard for the other persons' actions.
> 
> I think we deserve an explanation, but surely there is not one.
> 
> @mp
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