Present: Scott, Hunter, Ian, Johnathan Pilch, Anders, Chelsea, Lindsay, Charlie, Jordan
Agenda:
- Structure of the day
- What day is it?
- Who are we asking to come, and who is doing the asking?
What Day will the fest be?
Concerns about the day - Anarchist Book Fair and BASTARD Anarchist Conference on the weekend of March 13th would conflict.
Scott - What was the structure like?
John - Some people from local organizations did workshops (know your rghts, astrology, herbology, etc), some maybe half a dozen workshops. Bands and tables went throughout the day. The previous DIY fest to that had a couple hour mixer, hanging out, and tables, with some bands, then there were three workshop blocks with 3 or 4 different workshops each period. Panel discussion on cooperatives.
Ian - I think the panel is good. I would be more comfortable listening to someone talk without having to directly respond.
Lindsay - I learned a lot from the panel.
Anders - I recall leaving.
John - the couple hours of tables at the beginning was really cool. Music and tables together would be cool. Maybe we could get "The People" to come again. There are also so many bands from the coops that would play.
Hunter - maybe we should just identify the variables that need to be situated... tables, workshops, panel, music, anything else?
Ian - I would like to see a structure as a course of one's day... A.M., breakfast, lunch, dinner... I think it would be really cool rather than having like "astrology", have people realize, "oh, I do that, I pay for that... why can't I do that myself?" The presentation schedule could follow the line of a day. Like, "This is what you do in a normal day... let's do it yourself today." Like, it's lunch time now, let's make tofu.
John - I think that's a good idea... But - I don't know if we could have open flame or cooking at people's park.
Charlie - I like the idea.. do the day (granola, freeskool, tofu, work (with a lotastuff), music, bands).
Ian - What about teaching people how to make friends and do things without spending money?
Scott - um... so, is there an.. hour designation of how long things'll take?
John - I imagine people's park won't let us go into the dark. And we might not want to.. it would get a bit sketchy.
Lindsay. 10-3?
Charlie - 10 might be early..
John - I was just bringing it up to say that ending it earlier might be good. People will feel comfortable if the festival is still going, it'll be ok. But maybe we should think about not monopolizing the park. Maybe. But the prospect of violence coming in definitely made me comfortable.
Charlie - I propose we do the day-structure thing - treat the 5 or 6 hours or whatever of DIY as a "day in the life", and do like for example "how to make granola" for breakfast, "notebook making" for class in the morning, "bikes" for the commute, "make your own music" for the evening, etc, as per Ian's suggestion.. I think it'd be neat.
John - let's go around.
Scott - I think it's a good idea.
Hunter - I think it's a good idea too. It's a good logic, keeps it grounded, and in a thing that isn't just fanciful and that you do once a month (like making twelfth century viking boots), it's about greater autonomy.
Ian - Yeah. I think it's a good way to provide focus and structure. It would be a good discipline for us to keep from being all ADD on it.
John P. - I really agree. I think it's a good way to get people to think about the day and practical things.
Annie - I think structuring it as a day is good. But not letting it cut into darkness would probably be good, too.
Chelsea - I like the sound of it.
Lindsay - I like it too... two things that I thought about but probably aren't that big. But, in your idea, are all the workshops one by one, or more at the same time still?
Ian - I think ways to unify them thematically would be good, but one by one or all together, doesn't matter...
Lindsay - Ok. This probably isn't that big a day either, but we should make it feel like you could just jump in at any time.
Ian - I don't think that'll be a problem, though.
Lindsay - I think we can structure it in a way that it won't be. But I think a lot of people would want to not be there the whole day.
Charlie - let's brainstorm on the board for the structure of the day.
http://barringtoncollective.org/files/images/DIYBlackboard-small.jpg Bigger version - 
- Do we have a person that knows the area of Berkeley (history, etc) pretty well, and can explain the habitat of Berkeley? I think that'd be really cool, explaining what's naturally originally here.
Ian - We'd have to find a way to frame that so it fits into the Do It Yourself theme... like, perhaps, rather than go on vacation, find solace in your city.
John - I think Terry Compost (gave a workshop on the nat. habitat of people's park) could do something like that. Like maybe, a hybrid between nature, etc., but making it integrating into your life for DIY.
Hunter - Like creating "Hereness".
- We can do things for all ages, like "build a spaceship, kids.." It's a creativity thing.
Hunter - I know a DJ..
Charlie - DIY turntables - choose your own records, spin, scratch, etc.
John - NoBAWC came last time, they could come again and talk about running worker's collectives.
Scott - Should we pay the one man band that I know?
John - I don't think we should... Maybe if he were drawing people in, but it's not clear that he would.
Charlie - is the weekend of 6th/7th ok?
Consensus: yes.
Charlie - Let's all go commit to trying to contact any people we can think of that we would like to do something for the DIY fest.
Chris (from phone) - Charlie should compile a list from the minutes of people who have proposed ideas, and mail it out to the group (with people associated with ideas), so that people know which ideas have been taken.
Charlie - agrees to try to get to it.
Next meeting?
Next week.... Loth has council every Wednesday. So, we should find another day.