WR Greens Meeting Notes 2018-11-07 - Revision history

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; When: Wednesday, 7 November 2018 from 6:00pm to 7:00pm
; Where: [http://abeerb.com Abe Erb Brewery and Restaurant], 151 Charles Street West, Kitchener, Ontario {{map|url=}}
; Who: Theo, Ian McGregor, Cathy Scott, Laurel Russwurm, Stacey Danckert, David Weber, Kris Braun, David Dolson, Tori Mikhnovsky, Trevor Pollitt, Stephanie Jantzen-Martin, Collan Simmons, Tyler Rouse, Teresa Cornwell, Sam Nabi

== Riding Updates ==
* There should be a meeting of Financial Agents for EDAs and CAs from all ridings

=== Kitchener South -- Hespeler ===
* KitSHesp will be having its inaugural AGM
: '''When''': Wednesday, 28 November 2018 at 7:00pm
: '''Where''': Borealis Restaurant
: '''Location''': XXXXX {{map|url=}}

== Acronym Expansion ==
* EDA - Electoral District Association (federal riding)
* CA - Constituents Association (provincial riding)
* AGM - Annual General Meeting

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 ; When: Wednesday, 7 November 2018 from 6:00pm to 7:00pm
-; Where: [http://abeerb.com Abe Erb Brewery and Restaurant], 151 Charles Street West, Kitchener, Ontario {{map|url=https://osm.org/ }}
+; Where: [http://abeerb.com Abe Erb Brewery and Restaurant], 151 Charles Street West, Kitchener, Ontario {{map|url=https://osm.org/go/ZXnwUobw--?m=&node=4965137317 }}
 ; Who: Theo, Ian McGregor, Cathy Scott, Laurel Russwurm, Stacey Danckert, David Weber, Kris Braun, David Dolson, Tori Mikhnovsky, Trevor Pollitt, Stephanie Jantzen-Martin, Collan Simmons, Tyler Rouse, Teresa Cornwell, Sam Nabi
 ; Regrets: Ingrid Douglas, Bryan Izzard
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 ** Do we have one meeting for everyone?
 *** Talk to the individual EDA Executives (who will hold their own nomination meetings)
-** Timing? Still to early...
+** Timing? Still too early...
 ** But Kitchener South -- Hespeler will set a Nomination Meeting date at their AGM (Nomination Meeting in February)
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 * GPC - Green Party of Canada
 * CFO - Chief Financial Officer (for EDAs, CAs and campaigns)
 [[Category:Green Party]]

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 === Events Committee ===
-* ''Trashion Show''' https://www.projecttrashion.com/ (Tori Mikhnovsky)
+* ''Trashion Show'' https://www.projecttrashion.com/ (Tori Mikhnovsky)
 ** Had volunteers (from the Green Party?) staff WRGreens Info Table
 ** University of Waterloo fashion show with clothes made of trash
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 ** 6 Nov: Warmer Wetter Wilder (Nith Valley Ecoboosters) http://kwpeace.ca/event/warmer-wetter-and-wilder-with-dr-blair-feltmate-hosted-by-nithvalleyecoboosters/
 * Green Party people attended these events, but there was no WRGreens Info Table
 == Meeting Notes ==

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	; Where: [http://abeerb.com Abe Erb Brewery and Restaurant], 151 Charles Street West, Kitchener, Ontario {{map\|url=https://osm.org/ }}		; Where: [http://abeerb.com Abe Erb Brewery and Restaurant], 151 Charles Street West, Kitchener, Ontario {{map\|url=https://osm.org/ }}
	; Who: Theo, Ian McGregor, Cathy Scott, Laurel Russwurm, Stacey Danckert, David Weber, Kris Braun, David Dolson, Tori Mikhnovsky, Trevor Pollitt, Stephanie Jantzen-Martin, Collan Simmons, Tyler Rouse, Teresa Cornwell, Sam Nabi		; Who: Theo, Ian McGregor, Cathy Scott, Laurel Russwurm, Stacey Danckert, David Weber, Kris Braun, David Dolson, Tori Mikhnovsky, Trevor Pollitt, Stephanie Jantzen-Martin, Collan Simmons, Tyler Rouse, Teresa Cornwell, Sam Nabi
		+	; Regrets: Ingrid Douglas, Bryan Izzard

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 === Kitchener Centre ===
 * The EDA is without a President!
 ** Matt Piggott has moved to Toronto
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 *** Sign documents for the CFO and Elections Canada/Ontario
 ** Who would like to be the Kitchener Centre President?
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-== General meeting notes ==
+== Meeting Notes ==
 * People wanting to get involved have found it difficult to get information about the Waterloo Region Green Parties
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 * Stacey gives overview of WRGreens history:
 ** There are enough of us together to overcome the problems of a single riding association
-** Explanation of Committees:
-*** Events
+* Explanation of Committees:
-*** Communications and Outreach (includes Membership)
+** Events
-*** Volunteers
+*** includes both non-Green events where we have info tables (eg. Open Streets) and our own Green Party events (eg. Fundraising event, social events)
-*** Nominations
+** Communications and Outreach
 * Discussion List e-mails need to be made easily accessible
 ** There is an archive, but it is difficult to use
 === Perth -- Wellington ===
-* We welcomed Collan Simmons and Tyler Rouse from the Pert -- Wellington electoral district!
+* We welcomed Collan Simmons and Tyler Rouse from the Perth -- Wellington electoral district!
-** Pert -- Wellington is welcome to the the WRGreens federated ridings
+** Perth -- Wellington is welcome to join the WRGreens federated ridings
 * There's no formal Perth -- Wellington EDA; the riding association is just starting out
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-* [http://www.greendrinks.org/ Green Drinks]
+* Start up a [http://www.greendrinks.org/ Green Drinks] to engage people
-=== Ian McGregor's idea ===
+== Next Meeting ==
-* But achieving Proportional Representation is better, this is just a stopgap.
+* Next meeting to be held on '''second''' Wednesday in January  to avoid the holiday rush
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 == Acronym Expansion ==
 * EDA - Electoral District Association (federal riding)
-* CA - Constituents Association (provincial riding)
+* GPO - Green Party of Ontario
-* AGM - Annual General Meeting
+* GPC - Green Party of Canada
 * CFO - Chief Financial Officer (for EDAs, CAs and campaigns)
 [[Category:Green Party]]

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 * KitSHesp will be having its inaugural AGM
 : '''When''': Wednesday, 28 November 2018 at 7:00pm
-: '''Where''': Borealis Restaurant
+: '''Where''': [https://www.borealisgrille.ca/ Borealis Grille and Bar]
-: '''Location''': XXXXX {{map|url=https://osm.org }}
+: '''Location''': 4336 King Street East, Kitchener , Ontario {{map|url=https://osm.org/go/ZXnncDQe?m= }}
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 *** Arrange the AGM
 *** Sign documents for the CFO and Elections Canada/Ontario
-*** Who would like to be the Kitchener Centre President?
+** Who would like to be the Kitchener Centre President?
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 * Discussion List e-mails need to be made easily accessible
 ** There is an archive, but it is difficult to use

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 == Riding Updates ==
 * There should be a meeting of Financial Agents for EDAs and CAs from all ridings
 === Kitchener South -- Hespeler ===
 * KitSHesp will be having its inaugural AGM
 : '''When''': Wednesday, 28 November 2018 at 7:00pm
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 * Several volunteers and members have indicated interest
 * This meeting is open to visitors!
 == Committee Reports ==
 === Nominations Committee ===
 * Kris Braun has a spreadsheet of potential nominees
 ** https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IdPdcqD9jpOc89blp6W5h_cBGx1ppJstf_gQv79XGJ8/edit?usp=sharing
 === Communications Committee ===
 * Need a Mission Statement for WRGreens
 ** What are we trying to achieve?
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 * Google Suites?
-** Green Party of Canada laready has Google Suites
+** Green Party of Canada already has Google Suites
 ** Used by WRGreens in the last two campaigns
 ** Creating yet another separate suite will only fragment things even more
-* Tori Mikhnovsky and Bob Jonkman to meet to sort things out
+* Tori Mikhnovsky and Bob Jonkman will meet to sort things out
 == General meeting notes ==
 * People wanting to get involved have found it difficult to get information about the Waterloo Region Green Parties
 ** Sent e-mails, but they "went into a black hole"
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 ** There is an archive, but it is difficult to use
 === Ian McGregor ===
 * Ideas on voting?
 ** People are not voting Green, but voting strategically
 * Everyone needs to tell 5 other people to vote Green
-** Website with tally of people who pledge to vote Green?
+** Go for a walk?
 ** It would take only 6 generations of conversations to get 20,000 voters
-* One-on-one contacts are easy and community-building
+** One-on-one contacts are easy and community-building
 ** Going for a walk is also exercise-making!
-* When successful, if we can say "There's 20,0000 other people voting Green" then others are more likely to vote Green
+* Website with tally of people who pledge to vote Green?
 * But achieving Proportional Representation is better, this is just a stopgap.
 == Acronym Expansion ==
 * EDA - Electoral District Association (federal riding)
 * CA - Constituents Association (provincial riding)
 * AGM - Annual General Meeting