[sudo-discuss] meetings, learnings from biohacking

[Ryan Bethencourt]

I do like the format of one general meeting a month (to discuss all sudo
room goings on) and then the other three meetings can be working/learning
meetings. Maybe with a 15-30 min talk of something of interest so that
we're all learning and sharing.

Patrik suggested the split between general meeting and working meeting and
it's helped us to slice up our time a little bit better to dive into
different topics/subjects. I have really enjoyed Sudo rooms recent
experiments with meeting formats though (I'm finding them more interesting
and more valuable personally).

R


On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Naomi Most <pnaomi at gmail.com> wrote:

> You still need to define "working on what", otherwise you end up having
> to waste a lot of time defining that in the moment.
>
> General meetings still need structure, otherwise people lose sight of them
> having any purpose and they tend to expand in scope and time length
> geometrically.
>
> I still think sudo room would do fine simply splitting out Bureaucracy
> and the current general meeting, which actually runs quite well most of the
> time.
>
>
>
> On Thursday, April 25, 2013, Anthony Di Franco wrote:
>
>> That's a great idea.
>> Or, just separate the weekly meeting into general and working time blocks
>> so people can come to whichever they would like.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Marina Kukso <marina.kukso at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> for the biohackers is a working meeting a hacking meeting or a meeting
>>>> where business relating to the functioning of the group gets done? because
>>>> if it means the latter, then our meeting is supposed to be that :P
>>>>
>>>
>>> Typically more of the latter, because of the stage the bio group is at,
>>> at the moment. But as long as we're making significant progress towards
>>> having a functioning DIYbio lab, it's all good.
>>>
>>> We also have a "general meeting" for the East Bay DIYbio group (every
>>> last friday - coming up tomorrow!) that is more about making introductions,
>>> exchanging cool ideas, socializing, etc. Which is also essential for
>>> building a community, but if we only have that kind of meetings, we'd never
>>> get any of the boring logistics done.
>>>
>>> "General meeting" and "working meeting" is just what I've started
>>> calling them, and nobody has called me on it yet ;-) For the first "working
>>> meeting", we set it up over email among some of the key members, because we
>>> wanted it small and focused enough to actually get anything done. But I
>>> think as long as we advertize that this is a *working* meeting, and that
>>> people will be expected to contribute and get something done, they will
>>> automatically self-select accordingly.
>>>
>>> Maybe sudoroom needs a separate "general meeting" that is more
>>> free-form, and not focused on rules issues etc? Heck, I might even come to
>>> those! ;-)
>>>
>>> Patrik
>>>
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