COMBUSTION CHAMBER MEETING
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2015
FACILITATOR: BETH
STACK: CLOVIS
SCRIBE: CHIM-CHIM
ATTENDEES: Problem, Adam, Princess, Hawk, Clovis, Chim-Chim, Breezy, Pixie, Gyesika, Bravo, Clover, Prost, Dahling, Julie, Monkey, Decibel, Henry, Kat, Eric,
7:53pm MEETING BEGINS
7:56pm LLC UPDATE
- First draft budget after this meeting
- Freezer burn asked to use warehouse for building; Probably not this year; Wed—wood for tool room build; Will start soon
7:57pm AF UPDATE (DAHLING)
First submission of AR leads done; Will announce soon; Still working on volunteer system for next year
7:58pm REGIONAL UPDATE
- BM hired someone to help with volunteer system; Kim Cook; Announced prelim dates for GLC; Save date Mar 31-Apr 3, 2016
- FS org submitted for white paper for this year; Panel
7:59pm TOPIC: Adult Camp Follow Up (Breezy)
- Opening cattle guard made everything feel less restrictive; One camp’s music lead was not happy with lack of visibility at the beginning of the event, but changed his mind; People generally happy
Several of the camps placed in the corral in 2015 have asked to go back this year; They have requested a complete loop to go around the camping area. This is being considered. There are plans being made by those camps to include lights at entrance to attract more attention; Open camping in Outlands in corral;
8:06pm MOTION TO CLOSE STACK
ACCESSIBILITY; can get car back there, might have to be treated as burnable art site; would be awesome secondary burn site for art piece
Have fire lead and stakeholders available to discuss fire circle in adult theme camps area; temporal art installation navigation team; handle all art
8:11pm THEME VOTING PROCESS (MONKEY)
Always fair amount of side conversations/discussions about the way we choose themes; specifically operational; Discussion about current process works or not;
No more stickers with negative space in between; get stickers with just stickers
Solution now is simplest; everyone has chance to buy into topic
Folks who miss town hall feel like they don’t get to buy in; try something less analog;
Some think it takes too long; too many themes that distract from real themes; Presentations are sometimes too long; People who are hurt by putting ideas they care about into an arena that doesn’t give a shit about their feelings; Not necessarily our job to fix; people think it’s a waste of time;
Online system thing: Most themes selected are based on presentations; Best part of town hall is in the presentations;
What do we do if people don’t show up? How important is the theme? How much work is it for people having to do town hall? If people wanna change that, they should be part of the cc;
Theme is the most important that doesn’t matter; flipside is gonna be what its gonna be;
Have to talk about it every year; Just as important as ludicrous methodologies;
Theme selection process: imperfections easy to understand and widely understood; If better idea for theme selection process, write it up and propose it while there is still time
I don’t think our process is unpredictable enough;
Toward s end of process, two front runners; those showed up with large crowd of supporters; popularity contest; has bias towards selecting themes based on process and not product; if we wanted a theme to be based on content than process, then we should tweak process;
FS owns sound meters; alternate voting method; get sound meter and vote for themes by who could make louder noise; Vote by sound meter
Not about having fairness and objectivity; it s having an art project; theme selected by one person who sits there thinking about theme and importance and dynamic on human condition; because of that, we are on shorter side remembering one thing; can do objectivity measures; at end of day, it’s a popularity contest; as long as community is deciding and proposing is all that matters
Mail in votes
8:37pm MOTION TO CLOSE STACK
Old business
Cultural Appropriation/-ism (Kat); Discussion on racism; cultural appropriation with customs
TH prep; setting up agenda
Save the date for leads all hands; Dec 12; same day as Santa rampage;
Facilitator: Hawk
Breezy: stack
8:47pm MEETING ADJOURNED