Next Full Members meeting – 15 June

The Reef
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Hi @reef-full members !

Our next Full Members meeting and meal together is scheduled for Sunday 15 June at 11am. The original idea was to have brunch and then a meeting, but it turns out that we also have a plenary that day, conveniently scheduled for 2.30pm. So to make it all work, we will have our meeting at 11am, followed by a potluck lunch, and then the plenary.

Hopefully this still works for those of you that specifically asked for weekend mornings to be in the mix for meetings/meals (looking at you @MariaAM :wink: ). When I make the schedule with regard to these events for the second half of the year, I intend to have more of a balance between evenings, afternoons and mornings, so that everyone can have their preference at some points :slight_smile:

In the past we haven’t organised much in July and August, but I’m thinking about an FM event somewhere in the middle of the holiday period, to keep connected. I’d like to propose doing something a bit different for this one. Perhaps a big walk, followed by a picnic/meeting in field somewhere. We could have a 5-minute brainstorming session at the meeting on the 15th…

In terms of the agenda for the 15th, there is nothing specific planned, beyond the usual appreciation and membership updates. It will be a chance for everyone to bring up any individual issues or concerns they have as members in this wonderful project, rather than objective ones about the project as a whole. We can then decide as a group what to focus on with the time we have, and what to come back to at a later date. We’ll also continue to try and find the balance between rounds and free styling it, as has been requested.

So, who’s going to be there on the 15th?

  • Yes, I’ll be there at 11 for the meeting
  • I can only make it for lunch
  • Sorry, won’t be there for this one
0 voters

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The way I understand the governance reform (see Login – Nextcloud) and the changes to the R&O process (see Login – Nextcloud), we would move discussions about membership to dedicated online meetings with Full Members only, so that we can preserve our in-person Full Member meeting time for talking about things that really matter.

We have so little time already for this that I would appreciate it if we could stick to this agreement. Hope that’s ok?

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Yep, I had forgotten both of those proposal details. I’m currently trying to arrange my Reef responsibilities in a way that allows me to give more quality attention to the role of FM coordinator, and be a bit more ‘on the ball’.

So for the record, here is the guiding passage in one of the aforementioned documents for currently FM meetings:
We make enough time for emotional maintenance. This means doing sessions on appreciation, personal connection, feedback on things that are not going well or which are creating frustration, and making space for anything that needs to be said.

With regard to membership updates and discussion:
@ugne and @reef-recruitment – when we discussed roles and responsibilities recently, we didn’t make a note of the need to schedule online FM meetings to talk about current Exploring and Associate Members (in terms of both their needs and ours). Now that we have a few AMs involved, a few of these meetings will probably need to be scheduled (perhaps monthly)…

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