18 July Matilda meeting

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=Matilda meeting 18th July 2005=

Some notes taken during the meeting
The meeting started at 7:40 and it was facilated.

There were around people at the meeting and people briefly introduced themselves.

1 Info sharing

 * Yorkshire Foward own the building, Adrenalin Studios are a tennant. A legal team was suggested. One thing that the building can't be used for is rehearsal space for bands due to noise issues for Adrenalin.
 * The building is unheated in winter.
 * Last meeting ideas. Top 8 ideas were, Cafe, Group Meetings, Book / Info Shop, Parties, Clown Space, Art Studios, Storage / Office Space, Exhibition Space.

2 First Projects and Upcoming Events

 * Gallery to be a gallery and can also used for film night and meetings etc.
 * Room above gallery could be used for clowns
 * Top floor artists painters etc and also crash accomodation
 * Front building top floor for Hacklab and SSF
 * Front building ground floor, darkroom
 * Parties - everywhere!
 * Matilda Magazine
 * Creche
 * Roof Garden
 * Shared office space
 * Cafe / book / info shop
 * Community action group
 * Drugs Support Work
 * Think sports - chess etc
 * Refugees
 * Bio desiel
 * Shefstock info cafe
 * Kids yoga
 * Library
 * Party
 * Collective Meals
 * Hacklab
 * Someone proposed a birthday party

3 Guiding Principals

 * PGA Hallmarks
 * Sustainability

Feedback from small groups
Some ideas were fed back...


 * Main thing is to get things up and running
 * Some things need to be decided by the whole group, eg the long term usage of a space.
 * Event planning to be done by putting a proposal up on a noticeboard / blackboard and if there is no veto then the caretaker group sorts out the details.
 * Weekly / Monthly meeting for the whole group ideally with one person from each group, this to be an open meeting.
 * Each collective to advertise their meetings and have one or two person to go to the meeting of the whole group.
 * Consensus - there doesn't seem to be a consensus on using consensus.
 * Smaller groups could work on ideas and bring them back to the whole group.
 * Plan of building, naming of rooms.
 * Diary in each room
 * Ground rules could be decided
 * Some thought PGA principals too complicated others didn't agree
 * Security / noise issues need to sorted by a small group
 * Working group to look at other social centres
 * How is this different from a state funded social centre - no grants, no money, LETS?
 * Weekly meeting to have veto on proposals
 * Darkroom idea was agreed
 * Someone volunteered to be a caretaker for the next few weeks
 * How to divide up money from parties
 * The role of the email list
 * Web site

There seemed to be consensus on some of these things:


 * We will have some system to veto some events
 * Veto can be on black / notice board or email list
 * There has to be an way of deciding about what things / events can happen
 * We should try to encourage things to happen, things can happen unless they are not OK.
 * Certain types of events are pre-approved
 * There are ground rules for the type of events that happen
 * Some events shouldn't need to get agreement of whole group
 * There needs to be some means for people to put on one-off events
 * We will set up some kind of room booking system
 * We will divide things into project collectives
 * Caretaker / one-off events groups / events coordination
 * A agreed mediation method for interpersonal conduct
 * We have a meeting next week
 * Blackboard
 * Meeting notes to go on notice board and email list
 * Names shouldn't be used in meeting notes
 * Seeds for Change workshop 12-5pm on Saturday on consensus decision making
 * Zine reading on Saturday night
 * There was agreement that people could sell things like magazines
 * Two people to facilitate the next meeting were agreed

4 Small Project Groups
People said what things they were interested in working on and then the meeting continued as many informal discussions.