The next meeting of the Re-Imagine the Occupy Oakland General Assembly Working Group will be at the HoldOut at 2313 San Pablo Ave in Oakland on Friday, 4/6 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm. This is our 3rd meeting but we are still open to new members attending – that will be true throughout this process.
The original meeting announcement can be found here: http://occupyoakland.org/2012/03/reimagine-the-ga-working-group-the-holdout-oakland-friday-march-16-2012-600-to-730-pm/
A number of people were confused at the first meeting. This working group is NOT doing the work of Re-Imagining the GA. Instead, we are meeting to plan a conference or series of conferences in the not-too-distant future that will be open to OO and the Oakland Community. It is these conferences where the work of Re-Imagining the GA will occur, with as much engagement from the community as possible.
That seems fairly meta: “Meeting to plan a meeting”. But planning a conference of the scope we envision takes a lot of work. And that is the work of this group: The Working Group will be working on planning the conference(s).
The scope of this working group will likely include some or all of the following:
(1) Logistics of the conference(s) (date, time, location, food, childcare, etc);
(2) Planning the conference agenda(s);
(3) Working with other OO committees;
(4) Administrative work of the group (Web presence, announcements, etc)
(5) Outreach to the greater OO community.
**Please Note: We are still working on our web presence, and minutes from the first 2 meetings will be available online soon. **
If you have any questions, please contact the Facilitation Committee at facilitation@occupyoakland.org
Russ, Facilitation simply doesn’t have the internal capacity to re-imagine the GA on its own (nor should we do so … we facilitate, we aren’t “leaders”). Would you really want the 7 people currently doing the work of the FC to just re-do the OOGA and give it to you? That seems anathema to what OO stands for, IMHO. We also do not have the capacity to plan a conference without external help. This working group is the “external help” needed to carry off something of this scope. Philosophically, I think it’s better to invite as many people to do the Re-Imagining as possible. A weekly group meeting isn’t going to attract the diverse voices we are hoping to have participate – in fact, it’s likely to only attract the people who are currently involved in OO, resulting in nothing much at all changing.
so instead of doing the hard work of re-imagining OO. You form a committee to discuss the planning of committee to re-imagine OO. Did Douglas Adams write this?