Hello Springians!
We have a new date for the Spring 2016 Open Staff Meeting: Sunday, November 15th, and it will be at Parts & Crafts in Somerville, MA.
We are hoping that with more notice more of you all with be able to attend. So, if you are planning to attend, aren’t sure but are considering it, or know you can’t make it but still want to help or have something you want to say, please let us know via this RSVP form: https://goo.gl/oMlM9Z
The full details of how this Open Staff meeting will go, which is different from how they have been in the past, are below.
Much love,
2016 Spring Staff
April W, David W, Jake A, Kelly T, Lorraine G, Thor T
P.S. Please let us know if your contact information has changed recently, so we can make sure you don’t miss out on any important future communications!
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The details:
This year the Open Staff Meeting will be a bit different than in years past. We’re holding it early in the year to solicit assistance and feedback from the community before the bulk of the planning is done. Only six of last year’s seven staff re-applied, and we received no new applications, which means this year’s staff will need a lot of help from the community to make Spring 2016 happen.
The main agenda item for this meeting is to find volunteers to take on the planning and execution of individual tasks and events. Volunteers won’t necessarily need to attend future staff meetings but they will need to be in regular communication with at least one member of staff.
In aid of this we began brainstorming a Big List of Tasks that are needed to make Spring happen that we feel will would work to be handed off. You can see it here: https://goo.gl/0r34Eb
If you are interested in working on any of these things either by yourself or with a partner or committee please come to the meeting and help us out. And if you are interested but can’t make it to the meeting let us know that too and we’ll work out how to get you involved. Also, let us know if you think there are things that should be on this list that aren’t. Maybe you’ve got an awesome idea we haven’t even thought of?
The goal is for this meeting to be more a conversation with the community, working out ways to make the best conference ever with involvement from much more of the community, rather than the more presentation style Open Staff Meetings that we’ve had in the past when it takes place much later in the process.
The meeting will start at 10AM with a ring-style check in, and then move on to the list and figuring out how to get everything done. At some point in the middle we will break for a potluck style lunch, so please make sure to bring something yummy to eat or drink (but no alcohol, please, in keeping with the Spring spirit).