I think we need thicker bullets;
These BB's aren't doing the trick.
I came last Saturday for about an hour and a half, and there were
a few people present. I was surprised -- in previous "crises,"
far more people have shown up.
Patrick & I talked. He's accepted contract in Singapore, and so
will be gone in a few months.
"Why would we close Saturday House?", he asked. "It's free. Just
leave it open on the weekends. No need to shut it down."
A fair point.
A few eager faces arrived, as fresh as the fresh enthusiasm on the
list. "We can!", I hear them say; And I'm happy for this; There
is a hope.
My new proposal:
* Leave Saturday House open, as long as Patrick's keyed and
willing to open.
* Tone down: http://saturdayhouse.org/
- remove ALL visionary elements
- no hopes, outreach, or aspirations
- say: "This is a place where some people meet on Saturdays.
You're welcome to come."
(It is not disloyal to reality, no?)
- delete wiki content, link to wiki, "Participants," etc.,.
* Leave the mailing list up, indefinitely.
* If we can muster the will for it, hold a gathering between
Saturday House guards, on the 25th.
- Old guard: Lion Kimbro, Brian Dorsey, Justin Martenstein,
Robert Eickmann, Patrick Haller
- New guard: Any of the fresh faces who want to do something
with this, who want to see it live, who have a
vision and perhaps can make it into a mission or a
plan.
Sincerely,
Lion Kimbro
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Robert Eickmann <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Saturday House is dying. The concept and the community that it has
> fostered are unbelievably strong but as an weekend event the patient
> is in pretty bad shape.
>
> This weekend we had a total of seven people come in. In the last month
> there have been as few as five total attendees for the day. And this
> has me worried because we are heading into summer and everyone has so
> many other things going on. Last summer attendance dropped 50% on
> average and with our current attendance totals...
>
> A huge number of the regulars have moved out of the Seattle region,
> and people are coming in and leaving fairly quickly when they come to
> check out the space.
>
> I have some ideas for marketing, I would love for a Saturday House
> session at the upcoming bar camp, and a set of postings about Saturday
> House on the various email lists, but I would love to hear from you
> all on ideas to get people coming to Saturday House again. Or if we
> should just pack it up and say this was a grand experiment whose time
> has come to an end.
>
> -Rob
>
> >
>
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