Agenda:¶

• Final check-ins about stuff before opening
• Fill the staffing calendar
• Decide about womens’ night
• Brainstorm Code of Conduct
• How to strengthen & improve the FR community

Final check-ins about stuff before opening¶

what to call “volunteering”?¶

• free ride night
• community building night
• give-back night
• housekeeping
• organization
• team night
• member night

Info from the EAB committee meeting:¶

• new form for volunteering for classes – like a ticket that shows you have done their hours before taking a drop-in classes
• We are using Google Checkout for registering for program classes – won’t pay a fee because BP has already done
• enrollment for EAB will be done at a set time on each open shop, maybe 8pm
• Monday drop-in classes – will allow a set number (e.g. 4) of the participants to pre-register.
• will we not set a hard limit on the number of EAB’s in progress at any time?
  no – because there are all the other limits
• reminder about who can get trained – only council members until we feel we have straigtened out our finances – you also need a key
• training to be an instructor – shadow, then co-teach respective (or all) drop-in classes

Village Bikes project – in a couple of months, contact them. They give us a container, we fill it up with ~ 560 bikes, they send it to Ghana.

What needs done before the shop opens¶

• Women’s night: backup person with a key; if there is no female staffer, fall back to a male staffer to offer women participants to staff women’s night.

• Who qualifies as council members at this point: people who spent time on restructuring meetings and work? Yes.

• Who should get a key?

• Fill the staffing calendar: send an eamil about it!

• Need to make posters about new organizations

• Order general parts (not funky parts for very specific types of bikes) that we are short on in order to build bikes
  • need to find out what
  • create a system to know which parts are low
    • rrevise the parts drawers, especially the small parts
  • may buy some used parts from Kraynick

• functional gauge for easy sorting of tubes and tyres by diameter and maybe thickness – WillW will make one
• Could make and hang more charts around the shop explaining e.g. which tubes fit on which rims

• Website can be easier to understand – Philip and WillW will consider and offer suggestions.

Brian organized four light fixtures for free – need to

• organize with CJ to put them up
• drop them lower and spread them around the shop, esp. the back dungeon
• will organize lights in the corridor

How to strengthen & improve the FR community:¶

• more the black community
• what about donating bikes to the local communities?
• more communication among FR for the ones that have the contact with organizations we deal with.
• documentation about the organiations that we dealt with in the past and have some more info about how we dealt with them in the past (pros and cons)
• how do increase more access for kids to the shop?
  • what about a parents’ night?
• advertisement so that we advertise the shop more around Pgh
  • to increase the number of kids we cuold target schools
  • there was a suggestion about coming up with a strict and organized program to go to schools and see if they are interested
  • Jessica said that there is a brochure about it already and people interested about it can see it and see what they think about it and maybe suggest changes if needed
• We need a sign for the top of the door.
• social events:
  • rides
  • special topics event
  • quarterly
• Philip is interested in createing a teach class for how to ride safely

How to improve conflict resolution between individual members?

• there is nothing concrete to unify the collective like sports teams might
• need more guidelines about when you can act autonomously and when do you have to consult the group?
• discuss issues non-personally
• more focus on collaborative work – many people don’t have experience
• we are a group that changes people a lot
• bylaws – objective criteria for what’s ok, so it’s not
• conflict resolution team or mediator
• vibe monitor person
• check out ideas from other groups

Brainstorm code of conduct

• check out other groups, companies and the Quakers
• cover the legal stuff
• something about pro-active resolution of conflicts
• how to ask other people to leave the collective

don’t touch people if you don’t know them

no sexual harassment

speak to people with respect

don’t take a person’s tool out of his/her hands

no cursing if there are children in the shop

amend decision procedure (perhaps only for some procedures) to consensus-minus-one