[ssf] Structure

[@mparo]

Facilitating: I leave this to you. Very necessary necessary for the anti
ID campaign.

Just one thing... perhaps 2 groups could mix into one i was thinking of
G8 and no2id,
If no2id representative manages to come, she will decide.
If not, perhaps we can mix into a single group.... I don't know, will
bring anyway props and any brochures i do have. Have signed up as defy
Id support individual in Sheffield.


Bye for now

PS:  Posts (as drafted) at the bulletin are their owners' own
contributions, including the bit about Antics. Nothing has been just
found and pasted up by these dirty hands.
Anyway a copyright or left notice could be added....


Chris Malins wrote:

> Do I take it that we intend not to facilitate any subgroups except 
> the 'beginners' group? Do you think that we will be able to make 
> progress without some good timekeeping?
> 
> Chris
> 
> Dan wrote:
> 
>> Nice idea!  I think that could work, as long as we're not 
>> infringing any copyright!
>> 
>> Amp - we need to sit down and work out how it ties to the front of 
>> the website.  That could be a weekend job... This is something we 
>> don't want to leave as a 'good idea' and then let drift.
>> 
>> Cheers for all the work on this... fantastic!
>> 
>> Dan ----
>> 
>> @mparo wrote:
>> 
>>> If someone is preparing the A4s for INTRO
>>> 
>>> have a look at these details:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> /name of the monthly bulletin/ I am suggesting *"WHY DON'T 
>>> YOU...?"* as the name of the monthly bulletin.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> *WHY DON'T YOU...?* is a monthly email bulletin about political, 
>>> social and cultural events,  workshops, courses and other events 
>>> in Sheffield and the surrounding and nearby areas of the Northern
>>>  regions. Subscription If you would like to subscribe to the 
>>> listing service, please email XXXXXX with 'subscribe' in the 
>>> subject line. Listings If you wish to publicise an event, please 
>>> send details including: the event name the date, time and 
>>> location the entrance charge (if any) brief details about the 
>>> event contact details, if necessary SSF HOME 
>>> www.sheffieldsocialforum.org/
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> *WHY DON'T YOU...?*
>>> 
>>> ...Have new planned events announced on our SSF events listings 
>>> service every month? The service is available for political, 
>>> social and cultural goings-on in the coming month.  If you have 
>>> something you want others to know about, please write it here or 
>>> send the details to ssf at lists.aktivix.org ...
>>> 
>>> 
>>> *From February 17th to middle-March 2005*:
>>> 
>>> *Events in 
>>> Sheffield-Manchester-Nottingham-Liverpool-Leeds-Bradford-Leicester-Doncaster-York-Lincoln-Blackburn-Grimsby
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Dan wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hallo!
>>>> 
>>>> I'm going to prepare a sheet of A4 for the following purposes. 
>>>> Please be sure to read the outline of what SSF does below - 
>>>> this was something me n Dave sort of came up with earlier, and 
>>>> it would be good to get feedback quickly!
>>>> 
>>>> 1. A little outline about what the SSF does, what it hopes to 
>>>> do, and how this meeting can help to decide what will happen in
>>>>  the future (See below.) 2. Take the person's details, saying
>>>> -
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> "We are starting a monthly bulletin of political, social and 
>>>> cultural goings-on in the coming month.  If you want to sign 
>>>> up, tick here. If you have something you want others to know 
>>>> about, please write it here or send the details to..."
>>>> 
>>>> (I suggest we start using the ssf at lists.aktivix.org address - 
>>>> non-members posts come to moderators, so we can pick them up.)
>>>> 
>>>> "If you want to get more involved in the day-to-day running of 
>>>> the SSF, we have an e-mail discussion list.  Tick here if you 
>>>> want to sign up..."
>>>> 
>>>> Here's an idea - how do people feel about this?
>>>> 
>>>> 3. "We are planning to have open mini-forums like today's once 
>>>> every three months.  This is our first, so we're just learning!
>>>>  Could you please let us know what worked for you and what 
>>>> didn't?  E.g. was it too unstructured / too structured?"
>>>> 
>>>> 4. "SSF is preparing its forward planner for 2005.  We hope to 
>>>> have a mix of things going on - please let us know if there's 
>>>> any specific issue or speaker you'd like to see. We can't 
>>>> promise anything, but we'll do our best - especially if you get
>>>>  involved with the organising!" ---------- Outline -
>>>> 
>>>> Welcome to the first Sheffield Social Forum meeting of 2005
>>>> 
>>>> "What's the Sheffield Social Forum do?"
>>>> 
>>>> 1. Network events like today - providing welcoming space for 
>>>> anyone who believes in people not profit.  From this, we hope 
>>>> new ideas, actions, alliances and friendships will spring. 
>>>> Whether you believe change can only come about through street 
>>>> action, or prefer writing letters to MPs, these events are a 
>>>> rare chance for talking to people with different ideas on 
>>>> neutral territory.
>>>> 
>>>> 2. SSF campaigns.  SSF offers a supportive environment for 
>>>> local campaign work, such as recent work on welfare and local 
>>>> democracy in Burngreave. 3. Other political support - we're 
>>>> expanding our announcements list to include a bulletin of 
>>>> political, social and cultural events, and hoping to develop 
>>>> our website as well as help set up to a local newsletter.
>>>> 
>>>> 4. SSF research group - this has already started working on 
>>>> supporting local Burngreave activists to campaign and research 
>>>> their local area, and will hopefully be expanding to link 
>>>> student researchers with the wider Sheffield community.
>>>> 
>>>> 5. Whatever else you can bring to it...
>>>> 
>>>