Hi @reeflings !
Autumn 2024 is here, team community life too!
Some announcements:
- @anon36120994 has joined the team (as usual in sociocracy, full affiliation pending validation by plenary)
- Sadly, @ChrisM might be retiring from the team soon (and I don’t think he will take no from an answer at plenary!). For now though he will:
- Organise a brunch early october (see Potluck brunch in St Guidon – 6 October)
- Later in October, Thomas will organise a walk
- Early november, I will organise a drink in a bar. The proposal would be to have this as the first of a monthly event
- And at the end of november, we will have a Warewolves night organised by Mieke
@reef-communitylife will let you know the exact dates very soon so that you can book it!
We would also like to invite everybody to try and make these events regularly. Social events are a vital space for the community to meet and connect in a different context than plenaries, which is important for cohesion.
But it is also very important for exploring and even more so associate members’ onboarding. At the moment new people have to decide under high time pressure to join into a very exciting but demanding and expensive project, they need to know quickly that they really do want it, and for that, plot twist 
, they need to know that they like being around the people in it!
A few of the current associates have expressed to us how central the group is to their decision of joining, and current full members have expressed many times how much we like when other people become full members, so let’s get together as much as we can!!! 
