[IMC-bristol] Meeting Place / Tony

[kyra]

hi all
Meetings
i for one cant commit to first-x-of-every-month cos i work quite a few 
odd evenings either teaching or at cube. also, we've gone round the 
houses on this before, and if we do wednesday, so-n-so cant come, 
tuesdays someone else cant etc. etc. thats why we've been keeping it 
moving, so people who are tied up on whatever night arent excluded.
whereas groups like stop the war rely on word-of-mouth to an extent for 
meetings, and so i can see why they have regular time&place (as per my 
last mail on this subject), b-imc relies to more of an extent on email 
and the website for publicising meetings so we are well able to be 
flexible - and sometimes we dont have to meet so regularly, othertimes 
like planning for media day, we have to meet more frequently.
for me, its a strength of imc that meetings, and hopefully everything 
else can be flexible.

Anyway
anyone else have a view on this?
kyrax

James Venables wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> It's true that we don't have fixed date meetings, so that we can in 
> principle have them anywhere, but I think fixed date & fixed place 
> meetings is what we should be looking at. Using BSTW as an example, one 
> of the reasons our meetings survive  is precisely because people know 
> we'll be there.
> 
> I would suggest, like Tony, somewhere in the city centre, on say the 2nd 
> Monday of every month. The County Sports Club is a possibility, but you 
> have to remember it is a membership club (although only loosely), 
> meaning someone would have to ask out of politeness at least.
> 
> As for moving around the city, I do appreciate the thinking behind this, 
> but it is really a form of tokenism. The real job is to do the outreach, 
> not a public relations style excercise where we can subsequently point 
> to all the pubs we've been to :o) The City Centre is accessible to 
> everyone, & everywhere else, regardless of where it is, is only 
> accessible to some.
> 
> James