Redesigning the Thursday calls, 2021-04-02

Meta-Agenda

• do we need to continue this discussion?
  • what / how / when

Notes

• After-Action Review
• For Jerry
  • dipping the ladle in the stream
  • stirring the pot (a little)
  • explicitly won't get to everything
• Debrief Pete on what's not working :)
  • Didn't hear from everyone
  • People who want to chime in don't get to
  • This won't scale
• Whether / How
• Pete: "Federating" calls
• Poll attendees? people who come, people who have stopped coming
• Diversity and Inclusion
• Infrastructure for Gathering(s)
  • zoom + mattermost + wiki + forum
  • one on ones
  • trying to do everything
• How to invite people
• Onboarding
  • Michael: Is the Thursday meeting the onboarding for new participants, or do we want to make something else be that? (ie create a new meeting/s that are the gateway drug)
• How do new people know how these meetings go?
  • feature/bug, emergence is nice, confusion is frustrating
  • tiny bit of risk
• Hand signals

What is Working / What is Not Working

• "church sense", drink in the goodness of whatever gets said
  • not breaking this seems important
  • a time to commune with each other
  • manifestion of the spirit of OGM
• The calls aren't "open" enough
• Some people feel like they can't participate / aren't welcome in the call
• Time zone friendlyness
• Work day / business hour friendlyness

The OGM Salon

• guide(s) for how to get the most out of the calls
• guide(s) how to particpate best in the calls

AA

• structure / template
• every meeting feels like an AA meeting
• your AA meeting feels like home

Clubhouse

• always-on, perpetual meeting

Hopin

What to do now

• Create Massive pages that:
  • sets Thursday call expectations
  • describe what is where in OGM
  • describe "onboarding" or outreach
  • point to Code of Conduct we like and obey
• Talk on Tuesday 4/6 Opening OGM call about the role of calls in onboarding people

Action Items

• launch the quest of Opening OGM
  • Tuesday 4/6 Opening OGM call
  • mattermost channel: [Quest] Opening up OGM
• create a simple set of guideposts for people who are new to the call
  • artifact(s): a simple document people can look at, PDF and web page
• poll participants of Thursday calls
• crowdsource howtos / advice about new calls at the front of the call
  • could be in chat