Internal Democracy/Meeting/28 01 2017

Minutes of the workshop on internal democracy

Date: 28/01/2017
Location: Expression Mechelen
Attendees: JF, Hadrien, Rupert, Ilja

Last time summary (january meeting):

• We agreed that the most important thing is the meetings.
  • tell the bar that you have a meeting, so that people can find you
  • Try to have recurrent meeting (always same date)
  • communicate about the meeting on time
    • put the time on the website (two weeks in advance if possible)
    • communication of the agenda
    • try to avoid last minutes changes!

Today summary meeting:

We asked ourself: What's a democratic decision ?

• A democratic decision should be in consensus. If you can't find a consensus on the question, you should find a consensus on the decision-process. (For example, if you can't find a consensus on the question, you can agree to postpone, discuss, organise meetings, not need a decision at all, vote... Make those kind of questions explicit!)
• Consensus means co-creativity and dialogue, avoid voting. This can take time, sometimes we cannot reach decision right away. A decision should be revisable and is therefore temporary.

• How should meetings be organised?
  • We decided to talk about this in another meeting. 12/02/2017 in De 'Blauwe Schuit', Vismarkt in Leuven at 14h. The goal would be to have guidelines for meetings.

Link to piratepad of the lab:
http://piratepad.be/p/Piratelab2017-January