[Ob-media-multi] [Ob-media-external] IMPORTANT: Cancelling Today's Meeting and an Important Conversation to Come About the Structure of Media WG

Deborah Sirotkin Butler amberpaw at gmail.com
Sat Apr 14 14:33:22 EDT 2012


+1 to cancelimg today's Media meeting.  Maybe a focused GA to facilitate
the evolution of OB media like the GA that focused on FAWG would be good
horizontal democracy to best handle those. As for me I have felt honored to
ne part of the hard working and under appreciated media wg
Deb amberpaw on droid
On Apr 14, 2012 12:29 PM, "Dan" <dcheeno at occupyboston.org> wrote:

> Good afternoon Media WG,
>
> As many of you may already be aware, several members of Media WG have,
> over the past few days, discovered that we possess a shared sense of
> dissatisfaction at the work that we do as a working group.  Furthermore,
> the Occupy Boston community has, to varying degrees, repeatedly expressed
> discomfort and frustration with our work; some groups and members of the
> community, in particular, have indicated that they feel disempowered by the
> current structures and policies that empower us.
>
> Over the past few days, conversations have ranged from: a desire amongst
> several of us to simply step back; to an idea of creating an unmanaged
> infrastructure that empowers working groups; to suggestions that Media WG
> be dissolved in the hopes that the wider Occupy Boston community could find
> a satisfactory way to manage Media WG's resources and access (and enough of
> us may want to step back that it would be unfair to leave those who don't
> want to step back to take on so much).  The point is, though, that many of
> us feel that we ought to / want to step back or significantly restructure
> the working group to address the concerns of the working group's members
> and of the OB community--and that, no matter what, a significant change is
> coming that will affect you, the working group, and the entire community.
>
> The purpose of this email, then, is to inform you (and, we realize, the
> entire community) that these conversations about things not really working
> for anyone are happening and to invite you to be a part of them at our next
> working group meeting.
>
> In the meantime, today is a busy day and, because of the dismantling of
> Camp Charlie and Andy's service, it seems that the most appropriate thing
> to do at this late hour is to cancel today's meeting.  Temp check?
>
> If today's regularly scheduled meeting is cancelled, though, it still
> seems that conversations about the role of Media WG are in order, and
> several of us will likely be around at Camp Charlie to have those
> conversations.
>
> Best regards,
> Dan
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