June 10th
Icarus coordinator collective meeting
Molly, Will, Eric
will - notes --
Welcome Eric to first wonkavator call
check ins
Molly - doing well, busy
Eric - also doing well, working on health issues, people around in hospital, happy to be here, creating more cohesive web experience, getting more real support happening
Will - great olympia visit, met steven dionysisudialect
Agenda --
Organizing / Media report back
will - olympia report back, met with steven who is getting local portland group re-energized and off the ground -- great olympia mad pride visit, cool people, trampolining - blog post
connecting olympia organizers with regional organizing, lots happening on west coast
update - on 2020 - abc -- haven't heard back from icarista's re- proposal to not participate on official intergalactic level
- update in forum community
molly going to remind icarista coordinators about the abc proposal -
WEB / Forums discussion
will - should we try to move away from email list for more involvement/transparency? use forums?
- better to use organic groups
integration phpbb and drupal is an ongoing goal
nick focusing on coding and back end
organic groups / new groups/ radical mental healt contacts - confusing
web - integrating blogs?
blogs on main site -- no way to report posts, nightmare to keep up with posts.
how did spam get through? - captcha system improved. recent increase in fake account creation to post spam. First 10 posts need to be approved?
Some people not aware discussion forums exist - they're just on the main site
shifting blogs to all one place?
lots of spam on blogs
blog pages on main site -- legacy theming and navigation, all needs to be rethought
Sage advisors brainstorming
- name recognition people, engaged people who are deeply involved with community, keep in loop on decision making, adding influence, increase capacity optional committee work, big decisions like longterm media strategies -- e.g. way jonah involved. create container. Input mechanism for consulting, advice, people we rely on . Sascha's mom -- Kate Bornstein, Sort of another working. street medics, beehive collective...
comes down to database of contacts... keeping flow of information moving
Submitted by will on Wed, 06/10/2009 - 5:14pm
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