##Meeting notes - Feb 1
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Final approval for the organization will be done by end of Feb
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Need to vote on the org name: with or without days. Lars is the only one who wants to keep days and he is concerned about the risk of having OSCE trademarked. Issues discussed:
a. make it clearer what OSCE is about
b. the association is more than just the events during OSCEdays, it is about the CE an building the model through OS
c. need to de-emphasize the economy part?
d. we have two weeks to vote on the name, use the discussion started by Lars to give your arguments and choose a name.
e. There will be two categories of membership: individuals and organizations. Fees will be decided at the first meeting. Paying individuals have voting rights, paying organizations don’t. What to do about individuals who cannot pay? Not a good idea to ask for proof of income. Better offer a sliding scale and include discounts for students/others. -
Tim talking to 4 - 5 cities. Lars is onboarding Rotterdam with its BlueCity CE space, Rome and Sao Paolo. San Francisco will follow soon. Sharon is working on the Dutch cities and communications. Giwn is covering Africa, he has a good prospect in Liberia. All, please update the cities Gdoc as you get new info.
Need to be careful about conflicts between the Zero Waste network and organization that oppose the use of the term waste in CE, they prefer to use resources for everything. Lars will change the website and brochure to remove zero waste.
5 Ouishare: Jaime will attend to represent OSCE. Attendance is free, but other expenses are not paid.
6 All: add all the articles about OSCE as soon as you find them. See link in the agenda above
7 Not everybody did their homework on time tracking, Silvia for instance. Jaime recommends toggl.com. Lars is using his own. We’ll decide on a tool at the next BoST, but everybody should track their time.
8 Agreed to have a list of global challenges, let’s try to have 5 big things. We’ll make it clear that local challenges are the choice of the local organizers. But we should emphasize the goal of sharing knowledge and be more persuasive about cities documenting their events.
Need to manage better the link between local challenges and nodes, we think that having the channels this year will solve help.
Due Wednesday, Feb 10, a list of 10 challenges under the topic started by Jaime. We will create OSCE Utopia, that reflects our ideal OSCE if the global challenges chosen by us are solved by a certain deadline. This will be curated by a team: Lars, Jaime, Gien, Sharon, Silvia.
9 Gien will let us know more about how Earths Dollars work, but we agree with his idea of having funding options available to the OSCE community for the projects that are implemented after OSCEdays. This topic needs further discussion.
10 Gien suggested that we make available a list of mentors who can answer questions on the forum and during the live events. We all embraced the idea. Need to come up with the logistics of it all and to make sure we keep the workload low, for us and for the mentors. Need to discuss further. Lars and Gien are on the task.
Update: Development discussion was started some days later.
11 Sharon is in charge with TU Delft and in general with the communications in the Tim ask us to decide on what to do about our collaboration with Make Sense.