16 January 2010
Planning meeting notes from Saturday night for the 2010 Upstate NY
Permaculture Gathering.
2nd Planning Meeting for 2010 Upstate NY Permaculture Gathering (March 13, 2010)
1/16/10, 7:30pm - 9:00pm, 24 people in attendance.
(David, Jessica, Marcia, Seth, Michael, Sasha, Nick, Vanessa, Valerie, Helen, Lucy, Candee, Inma, Eli, Staphanie, Jody, Lenora, Ursula, Frank, Raishad, Zay, Pete, Kayleigh, Arthur)
1. Name
- Changed from Consulta to Gathering to avoid confusion on the part of the public.
- Subtitle "Care of People, Care of Earth, Return of surplus to both"
- Program/Agenda (Valerie, Marcia, Nate)
- Timeline
- 10am - 11am, opening/welcome/open space configuration
- 11 am - 1 pm, 4 Pre-Programmed sessions, 2 running concurrently at a time 11-11:50 and 12-12:50
- "Green Infrastructure for the Health of Onondaga Creek" - Lindsay Speer, Permaculture Designer and Community Organizer
- Intro to Permaculture - Andrew Leslie Phillips, Hancock Permaculture Center
- Financial Permaculture - Jason Eaton,
- Social justice? Beekeeping? Other? Liberation Ecology?
- 1pm - 2pm soup and bread lunch
- 2pm - 4:30pm Open Space sessions
- 4:30pm - 5pm Closing
- Venue: Heat, Air quality, parking (signage), set-up of workshop areas for day of event.
- Endorsements/Promotions (Frank, David, Jody, Michael)
- RSVPs using the Meetup.com platform
- Dedicated Gathering webpage will be on Alchemical website
- Flyer (draft from Corinne)
- use 2 columns
- add ethics sub-title (Care of People, Care of Planet, Return of Surplus to Both)
- add short 1-2 sentence Permaculture definition
- Include mention of childcare and possibly types of activities
- childcare should specify age group (4+ ?)
- Committee should provide any final info within two weeks for final flyer copy (by 1/30/10)
- Spanish translation particularly for Westside
- Target audience 1) Upstate NY Permaculture Community 2) Syracuse environmental and sustainability groups 3) General Syracuse population
- Logo
- rare moccasin snake from central ny? I can't find anything on this yet
- Endorsement letter
- Start last paragraph with I/We instead of just We
- Ask endorsing organizations for small cash donation towards signage
- Include mention of Gear Factory
- Mention of venue as warehouse/air quality
- electronic distribution/promotions
- Goodle spreadsheet will be used
- Mention of outreach to SUNY-ESF Landscape Architecture dept, Cooperative Extension, Slow Foods
- Sign for outside of Gear Factory for week of event, Raishad provided referral.
- Other possible activity/visual outside of GF leading up to event
- Press Release to be drafted by David
- Child Care (Ursula, Kim, Cher, Karen, Casey, Allison)
- Ideas/activities - numerous have been proposed within committe
- Scheduling supervision
- Coordinate with parents for volunteer time
- Childcare Age Limit?
- Food (Joanne, Jessica, Eli , Kayleigh, Helen)
- Stone Soup - to be made day of with contributions from attendees
- Volunteers to make soup - additional pots to be made beforehand according to number of RSVPs
- Bread - donations sources
- Sweets?
- Clean-up?
- Zine Project (Nate, Karen, Eli)
- Format
- Creation station at event
- copying and mailing - ask for $1 to cover postage and copying, and get address for mailing
- Information/Guests (Candee, Michelle, Sasha)
- Brochure/Flyer with appropriate information for sending to RSVPs
- directions/map
- acommodations (couchsurfing/hostel on Oak St/house guests/etc/hotels/motels/camping)
- Restaurants/food/SRFC
- Calendar of other events (SUNY-ESF Green Building Conference)
- Point of contact/distribution of info
- Budget (Frank, David)
- Needed costs - committees to provide this info
3) Afterparty Event
4) Other- Musicians/Band (enviro theme?)
- Frank work with Dustin and Tina from Gear Factory
- "Split Estate" Free film screening at Palace, Thursday Jan 21, 7pm - land rights/hydrofracking, and panel discussion following
- Finger Lakes Permaculture Guild - Community Training in Ecological Design Thursday evenings 6:30pm - 9pm, Feb 18 - May 6 - Tuition $200 - fingerlakespermaculture.org - 607-227-0316 - Ithaca, NY
- Committee work within themselves, send appropriate info to Frank for flyer/budget
- Final potluck and planning meeting - Saturday, February 20, 6:30 pm
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