Federated General Assembly

Mid-Jan event. Location TBD.
slide deck presentation, followed by a town hall style meeting.

context:
i've been hankering to put together a group of non-technical folks who're very otherwise engaged with the movement that can serve as an advisory group, at for our early stages. feedback at any level would certainly be welcome, but i think the primary value for us would be for dealing with questions such as:

1. do "physical occupations" - a la liberty plaza - make the most sense as the top-level organizing concept for nodes?
2. how do we balance allowing for good online 'process' that creates trust and good spaces against creating onerous, laborious process that just gets in the way of getting shit done?

so, higher-level network structure & communications sorts of questions. i'm imagining folks with a more practical organizing orientation here, though that's my bias and i wouldn't impose it on the process.

anyway, i finally got a chance to talk with Max about putting together a group like this, and he's agreed to largely bottom-line the getting together of an initial meeting. the goal there would be for us to make a baseline-setting presentation and start some dialogue, from which folks who're interested can opt in to participate in the advisory group. from there, i'm imagining we'll have an advisory group meeting on a weekly basis, with those folks free to jump in more if they want, but really focus on just making an effective weekly discussion the substance of their contribution.

so, opening this ticket for discussion/tracking progress on getting that meeting together. TBD is an attendee list, a space that can accommodate maybe 30 people + a projector, and (of course) us getting a clear presentation together. we were thinking mid-January for the meeting, so no huge rush.

let's do this one right, folks :)