Slides 47-50 of the presentation (which you received a link to in the email the following day) are the current guidelines for the onboarding process in the exploring membership phase. You may have come across a checklist in the ‘Onboarding package’ folder on Nextcloud, but this is a bit out of date and is currently being reworked.
For those of you that couldn’t make the Q&A session on Saturday, there will be another one on Thursday evening this week. The time and link to the online session can be found on the Nextcloud calendar.
There will be a plenary meeting on 1 July, and you are welcome to attend as an observer, to get a sense of how we work together. The location hasn’t been set yet, but there will be a specific post here on Edgeryders about this plenary by the end of the week, which will include the agenda and the location. You can let us know below that if you are planning on coming. There is also a helpful manual to prepare with: Login – Nextcloud
There will be a series of sociocracy/facilitation trainings on the evenings of 2, 9 and 16 July. The times and links to these online sessions can be found on the Nextcloud calendar. There will be a post here on Edgeryders with more information in the next couple of days, and you can let us know below that if you are planning on attending.
Finally, if you haven’t done so already, if you download the Signal app on your phone, I can add you to our Reef groups. The two main ones that we use are an emergency group, for last-minute communication, and a chitchatters group, for everything else.
Feel free to reach out to one of our buddies if you have any questions: Login – Nextcloud.
Welcome @kath
I hope you do not find everything too intimidating or overwhelming like I did when I joined the project .
Take you time to go through the information. I personally feel it is more pleasant to read the material from a good size screen rather than the smartphone.
The project is also about the connections between people so please do not hesitate to engage with us - we can go out for lunch/drink some of these days if you are available (reach our to me on Signal if you want).
I updated the post completely, including a section on Signal and completing the parts on estimating size and price, and on how to become an Associate Member. If you’d need further updates to the post during my absence, please ask @ChrisM to take care of that.
@Sarah would it be ok to double post the social events, on Nextcloud and in the summer schedule? The idea is that the summer schedule is easier to navigate (because it only has collective events, no team meetings) and because it’s also easy to access from the pinned post.
Yes, I spotted that and asked @SophieC to add new events to the summer schedule (I think? Or did I just think and not act? ). Older events should already be on there.
So Sophie, would you mind doing that if not done already? And can you also check that previous events are on there? Thanks!
On July 6, we are organizing a visit of commun space of the co-Housing L’Echappé - built by our architect - in Laeken - rue Drootbeek,30 - 1020 Bxl from 1pm to 1.30 + lunch
Otherwise, an interesting program organized by Habitat & Participation and Samenhuizen this summer.
They propose to visit different existing co-housing project in Brussels.
27/06 : Exposition & discussion on Co-Housin in Halles Saint Géry - 5 to 7 pm
04/07 : visit co-housing Vosberg in Wezembeek-Oppem
11/07 : visit co-housing BiPlan in Haren
18/07 : visit collectif housing Daryacu in Saint-Josse
25/07 : visit co-housing Ilot de Spiegel in Jette
01/08 : visit collectif housing for elders Biloba in Schaerbeek
08/08 - visit co-housing l’Ambassade in Schaerbeek
22/08 - visit collectif housing Compas in Anderlecht
Hello Sophie, you probably know all this, but I think hardly any exploring member is looking at the forum yet. If you want to appeal to them, email is best (for now).
i would argue that, we just had the Q&A, with a great bunch of enthusiastic and eager exploring members. Most of them i’ve understood had already made an ER account and Chris stressed it a 1000 times that is thread is the most important thing and ER is the way to interact. So i would argue that this thread is the best place to post it, with links to other threads if necessary…
New members cannot add themselves to the @reef-external group… normally Lie does it superfast, but she is on a break. As I started to write this post, there were only two people in the group. I have since added seven more. So, dear exploring members, please read this thread starting from the very top (just scroll up)!
Thanks @alberto !
Actually, it’s me or Mieke who normally add new members to the Edgeryders groups, so no need for you to do it at the moment And I know you’re all excited and motivated about Team External at the moment, but new members are added to ‘Reeflings group’ and the ‘Exploring Members group’, not @reef-external group
For those @reef-exploring members who were not at the Q&A on Thursday evening, if you were at the 6 June presentation, the deadline regarding applying for associate membership has shifted from 3 July to 8 July. This is to give you the chance to see the confesseurs on the 7th (see link to post above) before making your decision…
If you’re a @reef-exploring member who now has an Edgeryders account, you will probably have received a notification about the plenary meeting post for Monday. But if not, and you are just following this thread for the time being, here it is: Plenary meeting – 01/07/2024
Probably for some of you the question raises ‘what are the chances that i will have the unit that I wish for, when it comes to size (studio -1 bedroom / 2 bedroom / 3 bedroom /…)?’
We don’t know the straight answer to that, but here is some info that might create a better view on that.
With the last FS of the site in Jette, the architects allocated a total surface of 1905 m2 of apartments and 190 m2 of common spaces
If we maintain an average of 85 to 90 m2 per apartment, we end up with 20-22 units
We need to maintain a proportion of 1/3 of 1 bedroom or studio’s , 1/3 of 2 bedroom and 1/3 of 3-4 bedroom apartments. Having said that, the architects indicated that there is a certain margin and said that e.g. 6 three-bedrooms, 8 2-bedrooms and 7 or 8 1-bedrooms would very likely pass. (This could as well be 7 three-bedrooms, 8 2-bedrooms and 6 1-bedrooms)
In this file, you can see what full members, associate and exploring members indicated as their wished unit.
After deducting the full members whishes, this leaves 4 three-bedrooms, 3 two-bedrooms and 3 to 4 one-bedroom apartments (if we would respect the above division: 6 3bedr/ 8 2bedr /7 or 8 1bedr)
There is also our wish to have an extra 2 inclusion units. These have not yet been deducted, as we are busy finding the investors. They will most likely be studios or 1 bedroom apartments.
@reef-exploring
As mentionned already, exploring member are invite to join us (at the end our common meeting).
At 1pm - Marie from l’Echappé will make a tour of their commun spaces - then we will have lunch / or discuss together at BE.THERE. Who is coming ? Be on time, it’s a short visit
I’ll will come at 1pm for the visit of commun spaces
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