[Vanhackspace] Last Night's Meeting

[David Eaman]

Sorry to disagree Joe,
   I had a great time and considering the number of people there, I 
thought you and everyone there generated lots of positive input.  No 
sharp, heavy objects were thrown, no hot lead was exchanged and nobody 
walked out in a hissy fit.  There's a great creative buzz in the place 
and although  procedural stuff, some critical and some boring needs to 
be hashed out, we're all able to do it.  Disagreements are the cost of 
having an open space.  I was amazed at how people actually expressed 
what they felt and confronted issues.  If everything went smoothly, I'd 
be suspicious and think it was a corporate office meeting (ugh!).


David Eaman
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Joe Bowser wrote:
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> Hey
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> Last night's meeting was probably the worst meeting that I've ever been
> to.  I failed in facilitating it, and it just turned into yelling, and
> ad-hominim attacks against me and other people in the group.  It's clear
> that our meetings aren't working, and I don't feel that we made any
> clear consensus decisions at the last meeting beyond the basic
> principles, which we promptly took a giant shit on.
>
> If meetings continue to be like this, I think that I'm going to have to
> back out, since I have better things to do with my time than fight over
> things over and over again.  I honestly don't think I'm able to continue
> working on the VHS project if we have another meeting where it just
> amounts to yelling and intimidation by a few members who feel that they
> are more anarchist than thou.
>
> Joe
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