When is the "Wednesday open meeting" and how do we / can anyone participate?
I'd love to be a part of or (at least) listen in on this convo...
Thanks!
Chris
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This is the first draft of the governance manual for here: [the link is redacted in posting to the Coworking Google Group since I don't want other places copying our manual without compensating us. The core of everything here is https://collectiveagency.co/community-guidelines/ and more recently https://collectiveagency.co/2016/11/19/governance-guidelines/ for governance.] The process for clarifying questions, then concerns, then suggestions, was suggested by Jeffrey, a member here years ago, at a time when things were a lot more divisive, and has always worked well. I'm told it's part of NVC (non-violent communication). It sometimes slows down the meeting at first, and when it does, it saves a lot of time and emotions later, and is good for a fun/joyful meeting, part of the process we have where leaders here don't fight but cooperate, and people aren't siloed but interact across labels. (We could change the governance process but it would require a formal member process.)
We have at least 3 members (of us on this group) who very much want to focus on racial diversity, and no one in this group very much doesn't want to focus on racial diversity, so we did that.
Is Portland Oregon a geographic issue for diversity?Not venting/feelings, but opportunities for problem-solving (was what at least 3 of us very much wanted, and none of us in this group very much doesn't want that for these meetings). There was not a request for meetings on expressing feelings/venting, but there was a request for learning ways for individual members to do things.
History and demographics were talked about some, but it's not a determining factor, there are lots of options for what we can do (that's paraphrase from 4 people).
Are labels offensive?
What demographics do we have data on at Collective Agency members currently?Terminology is region- and culture-specific, some words are offensive in some places or in referring to other places, and appropriate for other places.
What labels would you like data on? Alex can research or guess. We don't ask members to self-identify on any identity labels.
Gender - binary and non-binary."