Re: [AllHandsActive] Digest for ahashop@googlegroups.com - 1 update in 1 topic

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Pete Mills

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Can I get a slack invite?

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On Mon, Sep 23, 2019, 2:54 AM <aha...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Adam Funk <funk...@gmail.com>: Sep 22 04:23PM +0100

Hello, lovely creative people!
So, it's been the case, it seems to me (and a few others as well), that the
runnings and machinations of All Hands Active have drifted apart in
recent years from being entirely grassroots with the board managing
official legal work and finances (which has been our tradition since we
started), to the board and a few volunteers (bless y'all, seriously)
disseminating information, and managing almost all of the every-day
work...but the majority of our lovely community feeling like they're not
really involved in the decision-making process and the running of the
space.
 
So! That something I'd really like to change, and everyone on the board
very much agrees with that sentiment; and it's something we've been really
discussing the past few weeks. We are, after all, a community space—and
it's equally as important to serving the community to be *run *by the
community.
 
To that end, we'd really like to open up the channels of communication to
make sure that every single person involved in the space is aware that
*everyone* has an equal say in what the space is, how it runs, and what's
going on there!
We're having sort of a "grand re-opening," if you will, of our incredible
and impossibly amazing Slack channel that will dazzle you
<http://allhandsactive.slack.com>, and I'd like to ask that everyone who
has interest in the space to join up and feel free to participate. This
will also give people who volunteer, and want to volunteer, a space to
trade training tips, request for shift covers, and better coordination!
 
 
Lastlyyyyyy, I'd like to ask that everyone reading this feels free to
respond to this email thread with how we can better revitalize the AHA
email system, so that it better encourages people to share ideas and
questions with each other again. I would personally like to have email
channels for art, tech, volunteering, outside-the-space activities
(grabbing dinner together, going to the gym together, etc...we used to do
this a lot!), and general chit-chat, but I'm curious to hear everyone's
thoughts on this as well! We're a community space, and I'd really love us
to be more of a community again. Thanks, folks! Looking forward to hearing
your thoughts. :)
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