Silicon Valley Commons Orientation
Saturday November 11, 2006, 10AM - 2PM
Attendees: Leo Romero, Matthew Singh, Leslie Garner, PH Yang, Ian Belvin, Donna Belvin
Notes by Matt & Leo
Notes:
Summary: Each participant made a brief introduction and answered questions. Participants were assigned to write profiles of each other. Wiki training focused on basic editing, and how to use the Help resources. We planned & assigned the next steps, and voted for Matt as the facilitator of the next meeting.
Introductions - see staff and user pages
Discussion of Outreach
- Contacting high schools, high school clubs like Key Club and Interact
- Norcal JEA Journalism Education Association
- Youth speaks
- Make sure students can get community service hours for doing work for SVC; register SVC with schools
- Contact teachers re project, get students involved; Use Stanford as a channel, Stanford New School, Stanford alumni at Public Allies, BUILD works with Stanford students; Foothill/De Anza
Misc
- Read: Sticky messages--"Loud and Clear: Crafting Messages that Stick. What Non-Profits Can Learn from Urban Legends" by Chip Heath
- Set up a Listserv (via Wikia or other resources)
- Story idea tables on the website, two charts--one for community to edit, one for staff to edit
- Organize formally as a non-profit, resources at non-profit boot camp notes, book(s) from Nolo
- Have crash-course orientation for new contributors
- Do tag interviews, team writing; Iinnovate does tag interviews; see what we can learn from their process
- Starting January 2007, we may be able to use the space next to the Public Allies office for meetings
To do for next meeting
- Everyone:
- Send email to personal and professional networks (Leslie is drafting email templates to use)
- Edit the Bradley article
- Write an article
- Think of article themes and ideas - Themes examples: Environmental justice, Youth development, Homeless, Arts
- Subject ideas: BUILD (Founder: Suzanne McKechnie Klahr), Public Allies
- Find and invite a speaker to speak on a topic, or a well-known person; would attract more people to come; would benefit the person/organization--publicity, article on them
- Matt:
- Contact people at Foothill/De Anza, Public Allies
- Post meeting minutes online
- Email link of Netsquared to group
- Write profiles for Leslie and Leo
- Prepare to facilitate next meeting
- Make agenda (will be getting agenda sample from Leslie)
- Give time to set group agreements, come with ideas for agreements
- Ask for time keeper, notes keeper
- Leslie:
- Draft email templates to send to personal and professional networks
- Look into getting BUILD Bayshore office for next meeting
- Send personal email to BUILD and Youth Speaks members
- Leo:
- Make Matt, Leslie, and PH meetup organizers
- Follow up with the schools and folks who did not come but RSVP'd yes
- Set up a listserv
- Link minutes to meetup
- Send link to Donna & Ian
- Video crash course - orient others really quickly