Introductions
Michelle – North Brooklyn, been canvassing and IDing sympathetic businesses; knows artists who want to make movement art and signage.
add business campaign to agenda
Nani – working on incubator model for other Gas; we have lots of resources to do this.
Micheal – volunteer corps: working to recruit volunteers to local groups; creating directory and then doing outreach to local orgs: build connections, learn about issues. Tried to dropped off publicity materials to Outreach desk and was denied.
Add signup sheet and data entry to agenda
Jessie – Sent out info on website to group
John – Publication subgroup; copy edited Rebecca’s talking pts sheets
Julien – Working with Jillian about data entry process
John – Question – as website goes live anyone can post to calendar, whose job will it be?
Need to change meeting location on website
Agenda
John – working on list of ways people can contribute
Jessie – I came up with something and tried to get it posted to Outreach table
Christian – will work with him tonight; Flags
John – QR codes
Org Dinner
Volunteer Corps
Michelle – easy way to call a local meeting in Greenpoint: can organize artists of which there are many there. This would be a quick win.
John – Design team is working on something similar, I talked with lead design group guy last night, would like to be in touch.
Jessie – Is this about one image, design is working on an official logo
Jessica enters meeting – works for homeless services org; has been doing some canvassing on her own.
Several new eople came in, they were at 60 Wall, more introductions
Manny – works outreach table
Sade – Met in park
Hans – Radio show host.
Aime – working at the booth – lots of people have lots of questions about peoples’ ideas and finding ways to get involved – system for helping people find local people to coordinate with.
Abigail – Has some time and wants to help out.
Chris – have two specific proposals – buttons and canvassing materials
Louis – wants to get the word out.
Andrea – wants to help facilitate discussions more
Brian – Wants to help get the word out.
Jessica – helping people find others to collaborate with
Manny- Event manager, administrator for private networking group; wants to get word out.
Tanya – wants to bring people in who feel intimidated
Sade – Spread word to the unemployed workers
Hans – Has an org network he’s looking to leverage; wants to include more minority communities – visit, talk and listen.
Colin – From outreach and facilitation; working on merging People of Color WG with Outreach.
Julien – Expains our workgroup’s organization
Colin – Organizers lunch: 2pm on Sunday [52 Broadway] canvas team is meeting to talk about getting outreach tables around the city.
Steven – Interested in outreach, lots of involvement in health care community, logtime LES
Breaking into groups for 25 minutes
Table Subcommittee Minutes -
Signup and data entry
Manny – He works outreach and explains how sign-up sheet is used and what people want; Most info requests come through outreach table. Julien handles data entry.
Tanya – can come by and pick up the forms in the evening and can do data entry.
Connect on scheduling that.
Christian – will try draft of form that will make sense.
Purchase items – flags and lock-box with slot for donations (emptied every hour by finance) – Ask Brian if he can add to his shopping list
Manny – can we get GA approved fliers or some other way to define what is “official”?
Micheal – We should propose that outreach materials be passed by meeting and signed and stored in folder in outreach table.
Manny – Lets discuss in large group how we deal with people who want to drop unrelated literature.
Tanya – I will work on schedule
Manny – Pens and dry erase and name tags desperately needed at the table in park (ask Brian)
Report Backs
Publication/Canvas
Reaching out to local artists to make storefront signs. Jessie – will help coordinate with design on this
Buttons – Kara and Chris will work on
Need steady flow of materials – also info on what you can and can’t do when canvasing and marching
Jessie – Send out Pbworks site URL with minutes (christian)
Jesse – Where is lit kept?
Julien – docs are kept at outreach, need to replenish
Org Outreach
Nani – Need better communication for org outreach; haven’t had person power to do much org outreach directly; people should think about how teach-ins will work.
Outreach dinner (lunch) 2pm Sunday the 23rd in Cafe of 52 Broadway
Teach-ins: message: how can what we’re doing benefit you?
How can we do outreach teams in outer boroughs; will we need a car?
Cara – legality is an issue with official OWS use of cars; people can use there own informally
Nani – we need to coordinate with canvas on map of outreach
X – We should buy tables for people to use in the boroughs.
Table Reports (see breakout minutes above)
Micheal – Motion to pass outreach lit process outlined above. Materials already there are grandfathered.
X – Who do checks get written out to? Someone needs to ask finance.
Proposal passes
Meeting adjourned