Monday, December 1, 2008

Community Mapping

Here's a photo of part of our community mapping exercise from last week. I've saved the other two photos to my server and you can download them here: world map and US map. Hannah has also typed up all the stickies and i've saved that document here: Community Mapping Report. Finally, in the interests of inclusive thinking, i've also saved an "outreach chart" that you can download. It's a tool that we developed in our Catalyst Centre work to practice an anti-oppression ethic as we think about forming groups. As you'll see, it's a simple chart that's a thinking tool to help us remember who we ought to be considering, who we're excluding, where we need to be doing more relationship-building and so on. Of course, this exercise is only a beginning and if any stickies got missed or misinterpreted, there's lots of opportunity to correct and add to as needs be. This could be a very helpful tool in building a database when we get to that point in our efforts. A big thank-you to Hannah for taking this on last week!

Potential Committees/Working Groups

This blog post is intended to start a discussion on committees: what they should be, who they might comprise, the structure they might take.
  • Which committees do we need to get up and running as soon as possible, and who would like to be a part of those committees?
  • What are folks' ideas on the structure of the organizing body as whole?
  • Should we even call them "committees"?
Comment away!

Best,
RL