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WE Protect Freedom!/Meeting agendas, minutes, and updates

• 2023-07-19 WE Protect Freedom! Meeting Minutes + Bonus Content
• 2023-08-01 WE Protect Freedom! Meeting Agenda (Simplified) for Wednesday 2023-08-02
• 2023-08-02 WE Protect Freedom! Meeting Agenda draft
• 2023-08-09 WE Protect Freedom! Casual Wednesday-Minor Meeting Tonight
• 2023-08-16 WE Protect Freedom! Email Update

Agendas

Pending consensus validation by community folks.

Agenda time slots

1. uninterrupted presentations
2. formal Q&A back and forth periods
3. 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.)

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

Agendas should feature

1. Opening declaration.
2. Reading of the agenda.
3. Reading of the last meeting's minutes.
4. 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.

5. Actionable summary. (Organize actions, event schedules, homework, recommended reading/viewing, research, to-do lists. )
6. Announcements.
7. Calendar.
8. Review of and improvements to the minutes.
9. Closing declaration.
10. 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.

See also

• Decentralized alternatives
• Do-ocracy
• Economic alternatives
• FOEPATCHISM
• Meaningful liberty
• South-Western Ontario calendar and newsletter
• WEFringe group email lists
• WE Protect Freedom!
  • WE Protect Freedom!/Branding developments
  • WE Protect Freedom!/Calendar (public)
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  • WE Protect Freedom!/Committee and meeting management
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