dawnh1
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Post by dawnh1 on Jun 11, 2012 13:51:51 GMT -5
Can a section be made for the steering committee to send messages to everyone and for delegates to communicate with the steering committee?
Thanks!
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Post by davidindc on Jun 11, 2012 14:00:13 GMT -5
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Post by davidindc on Jun 11, 2012 17:06:14 GMT -5
Dawn has posted some info under EVENT PLANNING. I replied there, but I'm replying here too, because she asked for a Q&A thread foir communication between SC and delegates:
"Election results will be posted on the web page and an email will go out to all delegates." YAY!
"Delegate candidates who lost the election are being invited to participate as delegates at large." YAY!
"The questions about the grievances and voting procedure will be answered by a letter the SC will be sending out shortly." YAY! ______ However: "Only delegates will be allowed in to the Pennsylvania Convention Center."
Please ask the SC to reconsider.
We're going to need some non-delegate volunteers. For instance, some delegates will arrive after the first session has convened. We don't want to pull delegates off the floor to work registration.
Some delegates will be visiting our brothers and sisters at the Occupy NGA on the Mall. We don't want to pull delegates from the floor to accommodate their comings and goings and we don't want to overtax our security force, such as it is.
The parliamentarian won't be a delegate.
It wouldn't hurt to have some folks around with first aid/nurse/medical/EMT training. Again, it'd be good if they weren't also delegates.
The delegates, between the announcement of the election results and the beginning of the convention, may want to invite a speaker or speakers. That's up to the delegates. Such an invitee must not be barred.
On several other threads around this forum, it's been suggested that we should permit media observers or everyday people observers. In my view, that's the delegates' call, not the SC's.
Finally, and this one pains me to point out, but none of the Board of Directors will be delegates. As disruptive as their presence might be, I'm hard-pressed to see how they can be barred from an event put on by the corporation for which they bear fiduciary responsibilities. If they don't want to come, that's swell. But I don't see how they can be barred.
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Post by Matt Forbes on Jun 11, 2012 19:24:40 GMT -5
There is a new category/board placed for the SC. I'm going to give it another day or so, then start creating member groups for delegates, volunteers, SC members, etc. so that we can better tune the uses of the various boards.
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dawnh1
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Post by dawnh1 on Jun 11, 2012 19:47:13 GMT -5
Matt, please excuse my ignorance but what do you mean there is a new category/board for the SC? Is there anyway the SC can be on the part that you see when you first go to the forum? Then the non techies like me will be able to find it easier. Thanks
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dawnh1
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Post by dawnh1 on Jun 11, 2012 19:48:42 GMT -5
Duh, you have already done what I was trying to ask you to do. Thank you so much!
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Post by Matt Forbes on Jun 11, 2012 20:00:07 GMT -5
We're all learning here, Dawn. I'm learning more about forums than I ever thought I would need to use.
I may adjust the SC board location at some point, maybe moving it closer to the top.
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Post by craigwood on Jun 12, 2012 2:53:07 GMT -5
Thank you for the SC posts.
You stated that "Only delegates will be allowed in to the Pennsylvania Convention Center." -- will delegates be allowed to leave the center [just checking or jesting]?
It might be a good idea to let the delegates log in to announce that they are coming or not. It might be an even better to let more of the candidates be full delegates to make up for the loss of some delegates.
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Post by davidindc on Jun 12, 2012 10:59:14 GMT -5
Given this clause of the posted declaration:
"...the Delegates to CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2.0 shall implement their own procedures, agenda, code of conduct, internal elections and/or appointments of committee members and officers to efficiently and expeditiously accomplish the People's mandate...."
why is the steering committee so deeply involved is setting the rules and agenda for the Congress. Shouldn't that be a job for the delegates, in these forums, after the election?
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mhuttman
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Post by mhuttman on Jun 12, 2012 11:18:02 GMT -5
I think the SC is just trying to get things started. There's been a lot of apathy by the majority of participants in this project.
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Post by Matt Forbes on Jun 12, 2012 16:32:48 GMT -5
At this point, with only a few weeks remaining, it may be best to adjust fire and have the delegates and SC work in tandem to finalize the last organizational needs, then work the handover to the delegation into the actual conference itself.
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Post by maureenmower on Jun 15, 2012 19:53:50 GMT -5
Matt, I wish it were that easy, but without saying too much (as that is someone else's story to tell), I am afraid that there is a majority on the SC which does not WANT to work with us. Some examples:
1 - They have not visited or joined this forum, even though the link has been posted in several places, and Dawn has told them about it as well.
2 - They are going forward with the plan to use the keypad voting system when it's clearly not necessary and most of us have said it's not worth spending $4600 on.
3 - They are submitting a list of grievances to the voting company - but NOT OUR LIST. They're using the "suggested grievances" that were written by MP and posted on the website, despite the fact that it is clearly stated BY MP on that same website that those were only suggestions, and that the delegates are charged with creating our own list.
4 - They apparently also want to force us into using THEIR agenda and voting process by offering to have Alex be the temporary chair to open the proceedings in Philly, but saying that allowing him to take that role means ALSO accepting their agenda and voting process.
I wish we COULD work with ALL the members of the Steering Committee. Heck, I wish we COULD work with Mike Pollok too. But I don't think either the SC or MP is interested in working with us. They apparently don't trust us to be able to fulfill the very responsibility they recruited us to take on - or perhaps they just don't like that we aren't doing it THEIR way.
Whatever the reason, collaboration with them is not looking like a very likely possibility at this time.
PS - this does NOT apply to Dawn, who has tried to bridge the ever-widening gap between the SC and the delegates. Or, in fact, to those few members of the SC who have been willing to at least TALK to us. Unfortunately, they are outnumbered by those I've taken to calling "diehards", including MP.
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