[Noisebridge-discuss] meeting notes 2010-01-05

[Josh Myer]

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Patrick Keys <citizenkeys at gmail.com> wrote:

> Along those same lines, having the meeting every week kinda undermines
> its significance.  Attendance is random, the agenda is very sparse, and
> usually there's at least a few heckles of "can we just skip the meeting?"
>
> Maybe the bylaws (or whatever) could be amended to have the meeting
> twice a month or even just once a month?
>
>
ProTip: here's a better way to approach this: ask, "Why do we have a meeting
every week, instead of every other week?"

That way, you sound like you're interested in understanding, instead of
bossing people around.

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:

http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/The_Plenum_Pattern
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>From that page, you can read a lot more about the theory that went into
designing our current system.
-- 
Josh Myer 415.230.9791 <-- NOTE: New number!
 josh at joshisanerd.com
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