<div>On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Patrick Keys <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:citizenkeys@gmail.com">citizenkeys@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:</div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Along those same lines, having the meeting every week kinda undermines<br>
its significance. Attendance is random, the agenda is very sparse, and<br>
usually there's at least a few heckles of "can we just skip the meeting?"<br>
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Maybe the bylaws (or whatever) could be amended to have the meeting<br>
twice a month or even just once a month?<br>
<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><meta charset="utf-8"><div>ProTip: here's a better way to approach this: ask, "Why do we have a meeting every week, instead of every other week?"</div>
<div><br></div><div>That way, you sound like you're interested in understanding, instead of bossing people around.</div><div> </div><div>The answer to that question is: based on other people's experiences. There's a great resource of distilled wisdom from other hackerspaces, in the Hackerspace Patterns. The one that is most relevant here is the Plenum Pattern:</div>
<div><br></div><a href="http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/The_Plenum_Pattern">http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/The_Plenum_Pattern</a><div><b><br></b></div><div>From that page, you can read a lot more about the theory that went into designing our current system.</div>
</div></div>-- <br>Josh Myer 415.230.9791 <-- NOTE: New number!<br> <a href="mailto:josh@joshisanerd.com" target="_blank">josh@joshisanerd.com</a><br>
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