[FM Discuss] FM meeting end of Sept/early October?

[helen varley jamieson]

thanks for this post mick; i'm of the same understanding about it as 
you, that it is a meeting to assess who might be able to take on what 
roles & what we want the future to look like for floss manuals. & it's 
open to anyone who wants to contribute.

personally i'm quite overcommitted until the end of september, as i've 
said before - so i'm not going to volunteer to organise the meeting; but 
(depending on the dates) i will come; i don't know exactly what i might 
want or be able to take on (being a fairly over-committed person at the 
best of times) but i do believe that floss manuals is a valuable 
platform & viable community, & i'm prepared to contribute to the 
discussion about how it can best continue.

so it's up to all of us to take on a slice of ownership, make the 
meeting happen, & front up for some of the work. anyone who is feeling 
shy about volunteering because they aren't sure what it's about or if 
they're allowed, should just put their hand up & do it.

h : )

On 22/07/11 11:07 AM, mick fuzz wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Anne GOLDENBERG 
> <goldenberg.anne at gmail.com <mailto:goldenberg.anne at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi there,
>     I'm new to the list so could you specify again what is the Floss
>     Manuals Meeting about ?
>     I might be interested in joining if I can as I live in Montreal
>     but often come to Europe.
>     Anne
>
>
> Hi Anne,
>
> I'm only really able to speak for myself. But I think that the main 
> drive of the gathering is to get a representation of people who use, 
> contribute to and is involved with Floss manuals to work out how to 
> take up the strain for when Adam Hyde who has been leading the project 
> takes a step back.
>
> Some of the things that I could imagine this involves are....
>
> * how to keep distributing some of the maintenance and admin tasks
> * how much of this can be voluntary and how much paid
> * working out how/ if funding is needed for core project worker/s
> * role call for what people want from the site and what they can offer
> * evaluating and brainstorming about how we organise
>
> It's great that you ask this question Anne, as there hasn't been a lot 
> of discussion the list about it, so it might be nice for people to 
> talk a bit more about what they would want out of the gathering.
>
> There is a doodle decider here.
> http://www.doodle.com/uc4cwpbpsbvbx2tu
>
> I guess you are in the situation of a few other people wanting to get 
> a bit of an idea of the remit of the meeting first. However, I got 
> caught out on that, as when I asked about the remit of the meeting, I 
> got a reply from Adam along the lines of - 'maybe you could take a 
> lead on that'.
> That reminded me of a conversation when I shared that sometimes when 
> people offer ambitious suggestions in voluntary community meetings, if 
> I'm in a funny mood I sometimes answer - 'Is there anyway I can 
> empower you to do that?'
>
> That observation isn't supposed to be barbed, it's just an 
> observation. We seem to be at a time with Floss Manuals where it's a 
> bit poker faced, a lot of people have contributed, loads, I can 
> imagine there is a lot of identification with it, but it seems to be 
> lagging a bit when it comes to springing into action to bridge the 
> next bit. It is an exciting time.
>
> Maybe there's something happening that I don't know about, but I get 
> the impression that people may be a bit reluctant to get involved in 
> case they arrive, there are only 3 other people, and therefore they 
> get left the job of taking on all the work and responsibility of the 
> project. Well I'm worried about that anyway.
>
> I'd be interested to hear other people's thoughts on this.
> Nice one
> Mick
>
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