Screwdriver

The Hammer

What's wrong with GA's?

• Not enough preparation from members
• Not enough follow-up
• Produces inconsistant or too complex statutes
• Voting generates conflicts
• Too punctual
• Too heavy to prepare
• Low participation rate

The Screwdriver

Which are the current problems in our organisation?

• too much work to be done, not enough work being done
• interested people are not integrated quick enough

What can we do?

• Organise an event (<- not really a screwdriver, more like a different hammer)
  • Determine clear goals and specify credible intermediate objectives
  • Focus on the objectives, not on the structure
  • Less content per event
  • Better follow-up (GetOp, crew meetings)
  • Voting frequency reduced by half
  • Events related with each others (each event introduces the next one)
  • Possibility to participate on-line or between the events
• Organise the "First yearly questionnaire"
  • Ask people on their opinion of all topics which have (or have not) entered the discussions in the past year.
  • Go around the pirates and see what they're interested in, find their opinions for possible responses, see what they want to know from other pirates
  • Make it informative, non-binding by majority. It's a stimulus for discussion.
  • Make the results interactive