Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA's Annual Board Meeting

2007-11-14 Thread Lisa deBettencourt
Pauric, You do have a valid point. Google Groups is working great for us here in Boston (note: we're only using it to coordinate events and don't yet have it open to local members, although we certainly could) and I'd be happy to adopt this solution with local leaders if that was what the IxDA

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA's Annual Board Meeting

2007-11-14 Thread Petteri Hiisilä
dave malouf kirjoitti 13.11.2007 kello 18:12: Evangelizing the discipline has always been a core mission of the organization for sure. Petteri, do you have any suggestions on how we can do this? It is a really hard piece to knock out of the park considering some of the more tactical things

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA's Annual Board Meeting

2007-11-13 Thread Josh Seiden
Hi all, Just sending a reminder. Please keep sending us your your thoughts, suggestions, feedback, etc. Our Board meeting begins this Friday, and we'd love to hear from you: What can IxDA do for the community? What can the community do for IxDA? What can we do for we? Post your thoughts here,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA's Annual Board Meeting

2007-11-13 Thread pauric
Lisa, as we use google groups for local stuff. Could the same not be setup at a higher level for the chairs? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://gamma.ixda.org/discuss?post=22389

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA's Annual Board Meeting

2007-11-13 Thread David Malouf
Hi Lisa, at last year's retreat we created an initiative called the play book. the idea was to convert it into a wiki that could be used as a collaboration space for anyone doing or even thinking about doing. We just never got it off the ground due to lack of resources and other pressing

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA's Annual Board Meeting

2007-11-13 Thread Lisa deBettencourt
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:40:41, David Malouf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the issue is that local-leaders seem to be focused totally locally, but what we are talking about here is a global initiative to help local groups. Sometimes you need to think locally and act globally. ;) Since Boston

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA's Annual Board Meeting

2007-11-13 Thread Petteri Hiisilä
Robert Reimann kirjoitti 10.11.2007 kello 20:58: * Our next retreat will be in November 2007—the end of this month. We're writing now to share our plans and get your input. A question-built-in-a-rant follows, I don't know if this should be in the agenda for IxDA (what do you think?) ...

[IxDA Discuss] IxDA's Annual Board Meeting

2007-11-10 Thread Robert Reimann
Fellow IxDA Members, In about two weeks, the IxDA Board of Directors will come together for our annual Board Meeting. At this meeting our board members (http://gamma.ixda.org/about_leadership.php) come together to plan for IxDA's future. These meetings are vitally important to our organization: