Minutes:20100105
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Tuesday, 5 January 2010, Winter Retreat
09:34: Action Plan
Flip chart notes
(Flip chart transcribed by Carol.)
| Plus | Delta |
| ways to plug in are more abvious | more conversation or plan for enthusiasm ongoing |
| nothing new - already know | nothing really new |
| clarification | (-)still ... time energy ... |
| individual & collective passion revealed | bigger overall tracking scheme |
| seeing big picture | overwhelm > harness |
| systematic | tracking system > works |
| interesting, stimulating | personal commitments - won’t be addressed |
| valuable clarity |
Promotion of Ecovillage, Shannon
(Flip chart transcribed by Carol.)
- slide presentation (public)
- location to present at presentation
- Advertising - eco-friendly sites, magazines for membership. etc.
- Spokesperson (goat)
- Attractiveness - sign, coppice (green screen), garden
- Publicity - writing for print and internet articles
- UBC
- CBC
- Steward of Fun
- Funding Packet (executive summary ...
- Rap sheet (statistics)
- Personal contact list, heavy giver list, contacting
- Visits & activities for Heavy giver, Trust Fund, member guides
- Ongoing relationship management
(Energy pie graphic not transcribed yet.)
- Review yesterday's fund raising brainstorm
- 6 chose events
- 5 chose direct funders
- 4 chose promotion
- 3 chose professional fundraiser
- need to solicit contributions at events
- Promotion
- individual actions to attract attention
- website articles, blogging
- news releases monthly
- events, but with fundraising intent
- word of mouth
- advertising: radio, print
- bring in people from off-island
- posters
- Proposed event-centric promotion cycle:
- Project page; group approval
- two to six months ahead of event
- Book event; high-level logistics planning
- Start "word of mouth" buzz
- Press release
- thirty days before event
- Initial paid advertising
- Internet publicity drive
- Second round advertising
- two weeks before event
- Postering
- Hold event
- Post-event publicity (if any)
- Project page; group approval
13:30: Priorities Session
- Some priorities:
- ACTION:
![[x]](/wiki/images/task_done.png "Closed task")
Farmers Institute presentation. (Jan Steinman)
- Membership steward
- Fundraising steward
- Site-based business agreement
- Re-zoning versus farm worker housing
- Need to address Quadrant II items (not urgent, but important)
- Housing building guidelines
- ACTION:
- Next steps:
- Get working toward S.E.E.D.S. as a charity.
- Meeting before 10 Jan, before Brenden goes away.
- Brenden needs computer support.
- Events steward: Carol will co-steward Events with Susie Anne
- needs a page!
- Shannon will steward individual funders
- Meeting of 18 Jan will be mostly about fund raising.
- ACTION: Susie Anne is Priorities steward, and will start a page to that effect. (Susie Anne Bartsch)
- ACTION: Jan will help SA evaluate Fast Track Schedule and MySQL as ways for tracking priorities. (Jan Steinman)
- AGREED: to review tasks weekly, possibly with constraints, such as, "new tasks from the past two meetings."
- ACTION: Susie Anne will email the priorities list back out after incorporating retreat info. (Susie Anne Bartsch)
- Carol: "We all need to get serious about this!"
- Get working toward S.E.E.D.S. as a charity.
- 15:40: session ends
—Respectfully submitted, Jan Steinman 20:43, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
