Yeah, I have to say that I enjoy the recent meetings too. they're getting more creative, people are eating more... 

i brought up considering an introverted person focus / working meeting as I was hearing people saying they weren't that into it, it's important to listen! as many things get done during meetings.

meetings serve people who are extroverts (like me), who like to talk and socialize a lot with many new faces... 

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Ryan Bethencourt <ryan.bethencourt@gmail.com> wrote:

I do like the format of one general meeting a month (to discuss all sudo room goings on) and then the other three meetings can be working/learning meetings. Maybe with a 15-30 min talk of something of interest so that we're all learning and sharing.

Patrik suggested the split between general meeting and working meeting and it's helped us to slice up our time a little bit better to dive into different topics/subjects. I have really enjoyed Sudo rooms recent experiments with meeting formats though (I'm finding them more interesting and more valuable personally).

R

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Naomi Most <pnaomi@gmail.com> wrote:

You still need to define "working on what", otherwise you end up having to waste a lot of time defining that in the moment.

General meetings still need structure, otherwise people lose sight of them having any purpose and they tend to expand in scope and time length geometrically.

I still think sudo room would do fine simply splitting out Bureaucracy and the current general meeting, which actually runs quite well most of the time.

On Thursday, April 25, 2013, Anthony Di Franco wrote:

That's a great idea.
Or, just separate the weekly meeting into general and working time blocks so people can come to whichever they would like.

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Marina Kukso <marina.kukso@gmail.com> wrote:

for the biohackers is a working meeting a hacking meeting or a meeting where business relating to the functioning of the group gets done? because if it means the latter, then our meeting is supposed to be that :P

Typically more of the latter, because of the stage the bio group is at, at the moment. But as long as we're making significant progress towards having a functioning DIYbio lab, it's all good.

We also have a "general meeting" for the East Bay DIYbio group (every last friday - coming up tomorrow!) that is more about making introductions, exchanging cool ideas, socializing, etc. Which is also essential for building a community, but if we only have that kind of meetings, we'd never get any of the boring logistics done.

"General meeting" and "working meeting" is just what I've started calling them, and nobody has called me on it yet ;-) For the first "working meeting", we set it up over email among some of the key members, because we wanted it small and focused enough to actually get anything done. But I think as long as we advertize that this is a *working* meeting, and that people will be expected to contribute and get something done, they will automatically self-select accordingly.

Maybe sudoroom needs a separate "general meeting" that is more free-form, and not focused on rules issues etc? Heck, I might even come to those! ;-)

Patrik

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