Meeting the neighbors in Jette

The Reef
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the proposal from the graphic designer & print expert is to adhere an A3 version of this poster in the wall in chausee de jette

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wheatpasting tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2XDepYrbOQ

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@manuelpueyo thanks for carrying this forward. May I still ask for one last change? Please delete this sentence:

Il est difficile d’estimer prĂ©cisĂ©ment l’impact sur le quartier, mais les habitats groupĂ©s apportent souvent des changements positifs.

In Dutch too:

Het is moeilijk om precies in te schatten wat de impact op de buurt zal zijn, maar collectieve woonprojecten brengen vaak positieve veranderingen met zich mee.

This is because i am hoping we will not be using the language of “impact” in that meeting, but rather that of new neighbours showing up to shake people’s hands. We are too small to have much of an impact anyway, and the last thing we want is to be attributed responsibilities that we cannot carry.

This I would not do. The meeting is too short-lived for a poster. The idea is rather to have a permanent sign with QR code/email address, with no reference to the meeting (and probably not in paper, but in a more durable material – see Meeting the neighbors in Jette - #35 by Lee).

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Letter to the neighbors version finale. ready to print :dizzy:. How many copies do you think we should print? This is to drop on the mailboxes of the street around the land I guess.

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No idea. But yes, we should do a pass on the streets of the block, and then do a drop in the various local hangouts. Maybe Kim can make a suggestion.

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@manuelpueyo when was the last time the Dutch version was checked?

There are two key words “collectief woonproject” and “particulieren” that don’t sound intuitive at all. I would rather use “cohousing” (the word that is commonly used) and something like “een niet-commercieel project in zelfbeheer”.

Also: how are the adults and children counted? 18 and 4 seems more than we currently have?

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Good point. Recommend sticking with the full members only.

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Thank you for your suggestions. Unfortunately the revision period for the text has been closed, they come too late. sorry !

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I have printed 150 letters and posted all of them today in 2 bars, people & company mailboxes and personally gave it to some people passing by.

I left also 10 of them to the mailbox of Kim

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Wow! You did this already? You are a star!

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Guys can you please put the event on the calendar? TIA!

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Event on the calendar. How are we with the mailing list, @manuelpueyo ?

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I can take care of the Powerpoint to introduce the project. I have a clear plan in mind (+/- 5 slides).

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i am on holidays these days, but what do you mean with the mailing list? are we sending this info to our email list? i thought we are just targetting close neighbours

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hello dear! maybe wait a bit until we reach a proper number of event attendants before preparing the presentation. just to avoid waste of time. i am not yet 100% sure that the neighbours will come in mass

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Hello @reef-external,

From what I understand there have been some glitches with the invitation to the neighbours: the form produces an error message, we are not collecting people’s email addresses (good for a reminder) and the link that the QR code redirects to cannot be changed.

This event is too important in my view to only reach a handful of people, so I would really like it if we could give this another push.

Someone suggested that we try a poster and/or a simplified flyer, so I have taken the liberty to make a rudimentary design. It’s just a proposal of course, but my suggestion would be to keep it simple: clear message, big letters, not too much text. I saved it in the “neighbourhood event” in the “flyers and posters” folder: Login – Nextcloud

@manuelpueyo can you please save the copy of the flyer that was distributed to the neighbours in the same folder? I just can’t find it on Nextcloud, so it would be handy if they are all in a place that is easy to retrieve. TIA!

Other than that, creating a special web page for the neighbours is probably also a good idea (if we can find the resources). Caro at the time made a first design (flyer that can be converted into a web page; NL translation missing), which is saved in the “glossy brochure” folder: Login – Nextcloud

As for the event itself, @joannes is it you who is coordinating it all?

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This is the location of the flyer

My role was to find a date, location and get the architects on board. I will be present on the day. So yes, I guess I’m coordinating the event. Manuel handles the communications.

Last weekend, I did put up a new board with the announcement on the iron gate because the previous paper had washed away. Not sure about its current state.

Luckily, the form seems to work. But I do not have access to the list of people who signed up. This would be handy for Chris/David who made some noises somewhere about catering for that evening.

Three weeks to go.

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Thanks @joannes. The link you are sharing seems to be a public one, which makes it impossible to trace where it is saved. Could you please share the internal link?

As for the catering @ChrisM and @Dave_behave are on it, but they will need the numbers. Could you please send them to both over Signal?

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@Lee Not sure what you mean by the internal link but the document is saved in Team External\reunion_info_quartier\flyer_ready_to_print.

Awaiting @manuel to get a grip on the numbers.

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There are three things that still need to be done here (ping @joannes as he is coordinating):

  1. Revamp the contact with Kim and try to get an idea of who is planning to come from their side. I have a hunch that people might come without having registered, we even have a couple of emails to that effect.
  2. Go to the site and put a poster on the gate (see below for this).
  3. Do another round of flyers. Manuel will know how to do this – I think he simply put flyers in all mailboxes in the block that contains the site. I do not think we still have flyers left, so they would need to be printed. Lee lives next door to IC, the printing shop we normally use, but I imagine Joannes has his own suppliers. Either way, if the supplier writes an invoice to The Reef ASBL I will then pay it.

About the poster

Lie has made a draft:

Alternatively, we could simply reuse the flyer already distributed as a poster, printing it on a larger scale. However, there are a couple of errors (numbers of families, adults, children, inclusive units) that would need to be corrected. My suggestion would be to stay generic – “une dizaine de menages”, “quelques logements seront reservĂ©s Ă  personnes vulnerables” (“unitĂ©s inclusives” does not sound right to my ears) – nobody cares about exact numbers, and they are changing all the time.

About the QR code and link: they lead to the form on Nextcloud. The problem with the error message is now fixed. The form does not collect the email addresses though, and I do not know where the file with the form is (maybe in Manuel’s private Nextcloud space?). I will let Joannes decide whether this is a dealbreaker.

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