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Agendas

Pending consensus validation by community folks.

Agenda time slots

uninterrupted presentations
formal Q&A back and forth periods
casual discussion periods

establish time constraints
- scheduled in agenda
- measure time or not?
  - clock display, egg timer, flip book, signage, other manual time indicator, etc.
develop flexibility protocols
- balance - over-rigidity can be as bad as no discipline
- how to ask for more time?
- how to grant more time with a silent signal?

Agenda usage

(These points may also apply to organizing rallies and other events.)

Agendas should be compiled leading up to the meeting.
Agendas should be shared with folks before the meeting. (via email, online?, etc.)
Agendas should be flexible for adjustments and last minute additions.
Minutes should be recorded during the meeting.
Minutes should be shared with folks after the meeting. (via email, online?, etc.)

Agendas should feature

Opening declaration.
Reading of the agenda.
Reading of the last meeting's minutes.
Uninterrupted presentations.
Each presentation may optionally be followed by:
- Formal Q&A, as necessary, up to a cutoff time.
- Casual discussion, as necessary, up to a cutoff time.
Actionable summary. (Organize actions, event schedules, homework, recommended reading/viewing, research, to-do lists. )
Announcements.
Calendar.
Review of and improvements to the minutes.
Closing declaration.
Casual discussion and disbursement.

Community members' preparation duties

Find out what information should be reviewed or researched, as was discussed at the previous meeting and included in the minutes. A brief summary may be presented for absent folks to catch up, but we can't get mired down hashing over the same old material.

Feel free to come up with new presentations to add to Wednesday's agenda that we should email out Tuesday afternoon.

A new presentation may be as simple as a factoid, a plea, a question, a statement, or a topic to ponder, discuss, or research.

Keep presentations as short as possible while being as clear as necessary.

Presentations should NOT be anything that could be digested as homework (ie. articles, books, clips, documentaries, music, videos, etc.).

Rather than discussing and debating issues to death, try to answer questions by pointing to brief documentation and strong references.

2023-08-02 meeting agenda

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Everyone is welcome to contact Jason or Sherri to add their presentations to this agenda, or be added to the list in person. We're only beginning to learn, put into practice, and intentionally bring more civilized efficient order and effective action for greater results. Please read the recommended reading before the meeting. Ray will print out 20 copies of a simplified version of the more detailed online agenda.

We can try to start the meeting on time, keep it to 60 minutes or 90 minutes max, 120 minutes under extreme circumstances. The following time allotments minutes are guesstimates to keep us on track and for the chair to maintain a schedule at their discretion. Unfortunately we the Q&A + discussions won't be as long as folks may want - but they are free to network to discuss outside the meetings.

This singular meeting and agenda is an experiment in action and organization. Nothing here is written in stone. If people hate it, dislike most of it, appreciate some of it, or actually enjoy many aspects of it, meetings hereafter may reference and utilize whatever elements they wish. Meetings like this won't ever happen again - unless people want it. Keep in mind that this first attempt may have awkward things that may improve with practice, or be better in a different way. In short - try not to throw out the baby with the bathwater.

00-00 Opening declaration.
00-01 Read: Agenda.
01-03 Read: Last Minutes.
03-04 Q&A + discussion
04-07 Ray : Meeting management: PostIts, uninterrupted presentations, chair controls, hand gestures, etc.
07-10 Q&A + discussion
10-13 Jason : Terminology: Do-ocracy.
- Over a year ago at the Green Room, the do-ocracy concept was appreciated after being introduced by Jason who learned of it via autonomous Burning Man communities.
- Jason mirrored an existing CommunityWiki article then forked it by adding a few paragraphs to Do-ocracy.
- Doing things without engaging, including, and involving the larger group will only ever be self-interest projects cloaked as community work.
- Informed discussion without action is just as effective at resisting tyranny as cowardice, inaction, and ignorance.
- Ambitious or not, finished or not, large or not, recent or not, successful or not - all of Jason's efforts are "authorized", founded in, and justified by our do-ocracy principles.
- These concepts along with the room and long overdue need for change, organization, and action are the fundamental catalysts that ignited Jason's current explosion of development activity. Not to mention the global perpetual war demanding effective resistance.
13-18 Q&A + discussion
18-23 Pastor Alin : Outdoor church + police.
23-28 Q&A + discussion
28-33 Don Miller : Doug Ford is coming to Windsor.
33-38 Q&A + discussion
38-41 Jason : Presentation: Why we need strong branding, a basic introduction to motivations before we even look at and dissect graphic designs. (See also: Branding developments)
41-44 Q&A + discussion
44-47 Jason : Presentation: Drilling down to define what we're about, an initial overview of WE Protect Freedom! issues for consideration and future development discussions. Impossible time constraints force us to deal with, discuss, and resolve these across future meetings:
- Better organizing our agendas, goals, management, etc.
- Initiate actions, calendars, event planning, mission statements, etc.
- Preparing assignments, homework, research, etc. in order that knowledgeable people come prepared to meetings for actionable organizing, rather than needing teaching or just socializing. (We may form a social group if we like - or leave this as a social group and form an action group. Perhaps revive the Sanctuary Social Club?)
47-50 Q&A + discussion
50-52 Jason : Discussion: How open do we want to be? Starting the conversation.
- Keep our community informed of what we meet about.
- Keep it open for folks to join (anticipating and preparing for infiltrators).
- Share information openly online (ie. Projex.Wiki, FreedomAllianceCanada.ca), in emails, and Facebook.
- What information is not open, private, or needs guarding?
52-57 Q&A + discussion
57-59 Jason : Meeting management: Running meetings efficiently with civility - A Short Guide to Consensus Building.pdf verses Robert's Rules of Order
59-62 Q&A + discussion
62-63 Jason : Meeting management: Establish time constraints for presentations, develop flexibility protocols, get a call bell, and improve the #Agendas documentation.
63-64 Q&A + discussion
64-69 Jason : Read: Potential future agenda items. Even if these potential future agenda items haven't yet been presented, folks may want to be aware of upcoming topics, research them, get involved, get prepared, and/or have more to add.
69-74 Q&A + discussion

Last minute additional presenters (1-5 minutes each at discretion of the chair)

Q&A + discussion (1-5 minutes each at discretion of the chair)

74-75 Read: Actionable summary. (Organize actions, event schedules, homework, recommended reading/viewing, research, to-do lists. )
75-77 Announcements.
77-78 Calendar.

Last minute announcements and calendar additions

78-79 Q&A + discussion
79-81 Review of minutes and add improvements.
81-82 Closing declaration.
82 Casual discussion and disbursement.

Announcements

Jason & Don : Maybe Thursday project.

Jason : We need to find a new meeting space.
- Brown's Lounge will be resuming card games in the back room on Wednesdays soon.

Jason : Classes at the Windsor Media Centre.
- Currently: Flim Camp For Kids until the end of August. Can still join.
- Free 2-day animation class & 40 minute video in August, taught by Jason.
- 10-day animation class in October, taught by Jason.
- Other classes to set up or request?
  - Wiki basics, cryptocurrency basics, gardening basics, computing basics, prepping basics, etc.
- Other scheduled WMC classes?
- Should have gotten more info Monday night. Can email for it.

Jason & Mike : May make a road trip to Toronto to meet with Druthers folks.
- But first the screenplay needs work.
- To discuss Mike's short video.
- To discuss Jason's comic strip pitches and/or illustrations.
- May record a brief interview, may write up a general promotional article about Druthers, and may begin an encyclopedic Druthers article for non-censoring wikis (as a Wikipedia article was censored by User:Nick Moyes on 2021-11-28).

Bonus material

New websites

Ground.News - Pay to subscribe for features that analyze corporate media, their biases, and tell you what's being under-covered.
- Recommended by Clyde Do Something.
TheRising.Social
- YouTube interview: Welcome to the Rising Social media platform (38:03) ~ Richard Vobes, July 28, 2023

Seminars

These seminars may be worth checking out as a group or individually.

Kelly paid for a Dr. V.A. Shiva course that we could do as a group, like a class.
Frequent guest on The Corbett Report, Benny Wills "The Self Reliant Way"
"Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Self reliance is its aversion." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Potential future agenda items

Even if these potential future agenda items haven't yet been presented, folks may want to be aware of upcoming topics, research them, get involved, get prepared, and/or have more to add.

Jason : Presentation: Branding, ongoing presentation and discussion. (See also: Branding developments)
Jason : Discussion, event planning, management, and networking resources: Who wants to plan and organize future events as well as establish our calendar of events?
- Openly share the calendar online aggregated in one place that may then be copied, decentralized, linked, mirrored, propagated, referenced, etc.
- Include participation with overlapping and regional communities, political parties, groups, and individuals to share whatever they wish, on their terms, with minimal conditions or strings attached.
- Perhaps create other private calendars?, for reasons yet to be discussed and determined.
- Example events: Future guests, Labour Day plans, Halloween Party, protests, rallies, social events, etc.
- Start by organizing our calendar and lists, perhaps on a spreadsheet, featuring event categories, guest categories, featured local folks, topical issues, notable dates and anniversaries, needs, wants, wishes, resources, peripheral pavilions, other communities, volunteers, and communications.
Jason & Others : Discussion and brainstorming: Future Alarms For Sheeple! Develop a campaign of simple slogans, signs, cards, flyers, etc. to preemptively predict and attack the Great Reset with the Great Rejection and Great Resistance - focusing on future weaponized problems (15 Minute Cities, Starvation Agenda, Currency, Housing, Immigration, Drugs, Crime, Grooming, etc.)
Jason : Discussion and brainstorming: Common Law ideas, education, resources, etc.
Jason : Discussion, event planning, management, and networking resources: Who wants to plan, organize, and establish our cross-community newsletter?
- Openly share the newsletter online along side a downloadable self-printable version.
- Include participation with overlapping and regional communities, political parties, groups, and individuals to share whatever they wish, on their terms, with minimal conditions or strings attached.
- Newsletter contributions would cover who they are, actions, events, future plans, goals, ideas, etc. with a focus on freedom actions (resisting tyranny) and prepping (alternatives, analysis, arts, autonomy, care, communications, community, culture, defense, DIY, economics, education, employment, energy, entertainment, faith, food security, gardening, health, homesteading, helping, information, justice, local news, making, organizing, politics, resources, solutions, transportation).
Jason & Don : Discussion: The ugly reality about the future of transportation. Get to know mechanics and/or invest in reliable used cars. Electric cars are set to divide the rich from the rest in the dust. (see also Windsor and Essex County transportation resources)
Jason : Presentation: Three parallel DIY alternative community economics not dependent on the Internet or establishment currencies.
1. Foster and promote the gifting economy ethos
2. Develop a decentralized distributed time bank
3. Jason's original idea for a decentralized distributed alt-bank network with a gold-tied community-based currency-ledger system.
- See also: Economic alternatives
Jason : Discussion: Community storefront ideas, dreams, and options in Essex County.
- More on this coming sooner or later. Have already had countless discussions with many folks. This is a big complex idea. As is...
Jason : Discussion: Community homesteading ideas, dreams, and options in Essex County.
- In a perfect world our dream compound may include: ample housing, artisan studios, cooking facilities, education facilities (for children and adults), elder care, energy facilities (biodiesel, hydro, solar, wind, etc), entertainment facilities, makers' workshops, mechanic facilities, obtanium resource management and storage units, organic gardening/farming, organic pond(s), technology facilities, trailer park, welding, etc.
Jason : Proposal: Establish community-based monthly-inflation measurement teams - because our governments are unreliable liars.
Jason & Ray : Proposal: Community preparedness coordinations.