OpenSet/Minutes/20131201

in attendance:

Ingrid, Austin

discussed:

• needs
• outreach
• next steps

notes:

needs from project:

ingrid:

• an inclusive space where people feel WELCOME (particularly folks who normally don’t feel welcome in tech spaces, or who normally are made to feel like they don’t know things: read women, people of color, queer folks, etc.)
• space to check*in on work and projects
• a social, connected work space
• space for workshops and breakouts to form around specific projects and goals
• drop*in hours

austin:

• inclusive and welcoming space (STRONG CONSENSUS around this point)
• space for novices; novices included in formation of space from jump
• access and skill*building as a political project
• a space in which we all feel free, a space we feel like we own (“a room of our own”)
• reclaim a zuccotti we can actually have (ie: take good parts we liked about that large, unwiedly space and make them work on a smaller, more discreet scale)
• space that is attentive to meeting the personal needs of all of its members

ingrid & austin:

• space that is systemically political vs. situationally political (ie: prefigurative space instead of space that runs campaigns)
• concrete, finite, manageable paramaters
• clearly defined boundaries (what are they?)
• clearly defined paths of access (and exclusion, where necessary)
• successful experiment in self government
• “do-ocracy”

people to reach out to:

[redacted]

next steps

meet again next sunday and:

• reportback on 1*on*1’s with above outreach list
• create a repo? some sort of place to store stuff?
• look at austin’s basement

people to reach out to:

[REDACTED]

next steps

meet again next sunday and: - reportback on 1-on-1’s with above outreach list - create a repo? some sort of place to store stuff? - look at austin’s basement