Lo!

Really pleased with how well (in terms of ideas and enthusiasm) the last workshop went.  It's given the committee a great boost of things to try and implement and a good bunch of ideas to fill the calendar with.

We've taken a few views since then...

1. The evening socials at the KPA will continue to only take place on Tuesdays (where we might normally have had a workshop meeting, usually every other Tuesday) as we've remembered the original reason for this decision was to help people with their schedules and to hopefully see the same faces as both kinds of events.
   
   
2. However this doesn't stop us from having other socials (potentially away from the KPA) which can occur on other days and times (e.g. perhaps in Newcastle or back in Stafford like they used to be)... shout if you'd be up for that.
   
   
3. We're only listing workshop meetings on the website under the 'Planned' section of the calendar when there is a confirmed presenter(s) for the meeting that we can list (the name can be listed however they want, as long as we know you're real!).  Additionally the presenter(s) must provide us with at least a rough idea of what will be covered that we can type up as no more than 6 bullet points.  So if you've offered to do a talk in the last workshop, please get those details to us and which Tuesdays (at least Tuesdays of odd-numbered weeks) you will be free.
   
   
4. Anything that doesn't have a hard date but we do know the likely presenter and outline will be listed under 'Proposed' and anything that is just a fleeting idea (with no outline or presenter) will go under 'Ideas' until someone takes it on.
   
   
5. We're going to have a yearly 'End of year activities' workshop every year (and after some retroactive renaming, we've done that for the last 3 years) rather than any 'End of quarter' meetings we've spoken about previously.  This is so we can fit in more proper topic-based workshops on the fortnightly Tuesdays during a year as well as make room for ORG Stoke and FSFE Potteries events.
   
   
6. Any future workshop that is on the same rough topic as a previous one will receive a title that is the same as the previous time we did that workshop but with the year as the suffix (e.g. 'Tabletop gaming on Linux 2020') and rename the older one for clarity (e.g. 'Tabletop gaming on Linux 2019').
   
   
7. We're investigating ways so that in the future if you're a member of the meetings@ mailing list, then you'll automatically get a calendar invite in your email (so you can add it to your personal calendar) likely 2 weeks in advance (or something like that) of a social or a workshop (possibly also trips if we collapse trips@ into meetings@).  You'll still be able to talk on meetings@ but being subscribed to it will also mean you'll get these calendar invites automatically (just don't reply to them or forward them as the ability to RSVP would be tied to just your email address).  If anyone doesn't like this proposal, please shout.

Thanks!

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Steven Maddox
Lantizia