05 Jan 09 Second Organizational Meeting

After our first practice we retired to Tom and Karin’s house for beer, pizza, and another organizational meeting.

Topics up for discussion: recap of the first organizational meeting for those who weren’t there, possible May Day sites, whether the practice time/space is good, scheduling a Bucknell workshop, who should be bag, names for the team, kit ideas.

Decisions that were made:

• We decided to practice every Saturday from now on, provided we have critical mass (at least 4 dancers). If people are going to be unable to make it, they should email Karin as soon as they know.

• The practice time and space were declared to be good, at least for the time being. We may revisit the issue in the spring/summer.

• We decided to try and schedule the Bucknell workshop for Saturday, January 24th, if we can get people down from Ann Arbor on such short notice. We’ll keep people updated as soon as we know one way or the other. If the workshop doesn’t happen that day we will practice as usual.

Decisions that were not made:

• Who will be bag. It was observed that Jim Logan was looking like a bag (or at least a hat) and he didn’t run screaming, but no official dragooning appointment of bag was made.

• What to name the team. Various suggestions (some more serious than others) were made, but no decision has been reached.

• Kit. It was decided to table the question of kit until we decide on a name, since that might have an impact/influence on the kit.

• May Day sites. Some various suggestions were made, which will need to be researched. The Point has been researched, and has been rejected (at least for May Day morn) for various reasons, the most pressing of which is the fact that the sun will be behind the buildings at sunrise (doh!). Flagstaff Hill in Schenley Park was proposed with much favor, pending research.

Things that people volunteered to do:

• Tory volunteered to contact the Ann Arbor folks to try and get a Bucknell workshop scheduled for Jan. 24th.

• Tory volunteered to contact the Wilkins School and tell them we want the room again next week.

• Karin volunteered to write up minutes and send them out. (Consider this the minutes kthx)

• Karin volunteered to send out an email listing the proposed choices for a team name, and soliciting additional suggestions.

• Karin volunteered to set up a Survey Monkey survey so that we could rank the proposed names, once people have had a chance to respond.

Things that someone needs to do:

• Contact the Wilkins School about getting a room for all day on the 24th for the workshop (provided we can get the Ann Arbor folks to come then). Possibly Tory was going to do this? - I’m not sure.

• Research whether or not Flagstaff Hill would be a good May Day site or not. I’ll probably do this, at least in a preliminary fashion, sometime this week. If someone wanted to join me, that would be cool, anyone who is in the CMU/Pitt area and has a spare hour or so during the day to go for a walk in the park.

See you all next week at practice! 2-4 PM on Saturday, at the Wilkins School. Be there!