Suggestion: decide the agenda for the next meeting at the meetings themselves, and have people volunteer to present things. Maybe too North American or Northern European a style? ;-)
Nobody says you should volunteer yourself, but also I think people come when they have an idea of the program and whether it is interesting for them or not. No theme at all could in fact equal no interest at all. And if no one volunteers, perhaps "curate" something...
D.
On 9/16/10 1:24 PM, João Pais wrote:
that is true, the thing is there is no boss in this group (I don't want to say what the people are going to do). so, there is no agenda really. or anyone has something that he wants to show? I prefer the format where people discuss than the one that one lectures, and the others listen (which is suggested by having a "fixed" program). not to say that someone might think "theme xxxx? I know already enough about it, won't go this time".
I also don't have the time to be preparing materials and making a pd class out of this (for that people can ask me or Servando for a workshop). that's why that for now I prefer the anarquic treatment, where everyone is equal.
I have to agree with M here, posting an agenda or at least a fresh list of topics might encourage [more] people to come.
D.
On 9/14/10 7:47 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, João Pais wrote:
What's the programme for this particular meeting ?
no programme so far, most likely the usual show-and-tell of patches, answering questions...
You only need to make a list of patches in advance for the show-and-tell, that's all. Just have everybody write one or two sentences per patch that will be shown. It's not very hard to do. It doesn't prevent you from improvising things that are not on the schedule...