The gathering on the 25th sounds like a good idea and I will plan on seeing everyone there. Say 1PM?
I think that one of the things that we should discuss is rotating 'Saturday House' to a monthly 'Big Cool Shiny' activity gathering. Like the kite project last year, or the Aurdio project that John put together earlier this year. -Rob On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Lion Kimbro <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >> >> > >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Website: http://saturdayhouse.org/ Post: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
