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.

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.

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

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