[Committee] Rooms

[Marc Kaufmann]

Hey,

first, Chris Rapley can't come to 23rd Oct, but I invited Peter Cox.

I am a member of the Union and Pablo is probably as well. I think we can
easily pass as a political organisation in some way.

One reason that I see for not doing it together with CUEUS and AGEE is that
I fear the cc focus will be lost. If we don't mind so much about that and
rather want to network with other societies, that is fine. But if we want to
get people involved in our workgroups or similar, I think (but might be
wrong) that that kind of event would not serve us so well. Moreover, we
wouldn't be able to invite the other groups to their event, I doubt they'd
like to be overrun with other groups joining in.

My proposal is that we should still try and pull off the thing on the 8th
October, but go along to the CUEUS squash (2 or 3 people suffice) to get to
know them better. More work of course.

But it's up to you when you meet next week, I'll be back on saturday and go
along with it, as we won't have the time to make much organising in the
first 2 weeks, with fresher's fair and all that.

A few things that should be discussed (and hopefully sorted) at the meeting:

- need to send out an email to camlist, we should ask them if anyone wants
to help with the freshers' fair, have a quick list of the most important
things going on this term. Send it to committee first, just in case
something was left off and has to be sent out again.

- rota for fresher's fair (also depends on replies from camlist, but there
should be at least one of us at each time)

- As Steve said, we should appoint people to be main contacts for certain
working groups, need to discuss which etc. Being main contact doesn't mean
you'll be responsible for the group, but for trying to set it up and passing
responsibility on. At least people will know whom to approach.

- Squash (I've said my bit above)

- We should have a strategic meeting early in term (before climate coalition
on 14th Oct), to discuss or just confirm where we are going long-term. Not
sure this is necessary, but from talk on other email-lists, there is a hell
of a lot confusion out there, and it'd be great if we knew at least our aim

Here are some working groups that I thought about, I don't think we should
do them all, but it's good to have a wide range in mind, in case you meet
someone who happens to be superkeen on just that! Lots of them might overlap
and most groups don't need more than half a person in the beginning, but
someone should feel responsible for certain areas.

- Administration (this is really what the pres/vice pres/sec are doing,
doesn't need to be called differently)
- Coordination (coordinating all the working groups; might look pointless at
the beginning, but if we want this to be able to grow, the structure has to
be there from the start!)
- Financial (we do need money, whether we like it or not; includes
everything from applying for grants, fundraising etc)
- Publicity
- Media (like having a newsletter, getting articles out to student papers
and others, maybe having one ourselves; Pete Wood is thinking about starting
an Ecologist like student paper, he'd be great)
- Science
- Economics
- Politics
- Lobbying (for instance our thing on the climate bill, might be together
with politics)
- IT
- Direct Action (yeah, I know, this might put off some people... still think
it's a good idea)
- Education
- Outreach
- Design


Sorry for yet another long email by yours truly annoying, but I won't be
there for the meeting, so wanted to air my thoughts here.

Marc

On 9/21/07, Gunnar Möller <gunnarm5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> One more thing:
>
> I heard that you can get rooms at the Cambridge Union for free if you're
> a political society and somebody is a member in the union. Of course, the
> question is whether we want to understand ourselves as a political
> society.
>
> Anyways, is somebody (planning to be) a member in the Union?
>
> Greetings,
>
> Gunnar
>
> On 9/21/07, Gunnar Möller < gunnarm5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > here's an alternative proposition for the squash:
> >
> > the CU European Union Society / AGEE
> >
> > plans to have a squash on the 15th, and has reserved a big room (80
> > people) at the
> > cambridge union already. Maybe we could join up the events?
> >
> > Gunnar
> >
> > On 9/21/07, Marc Kaufmann < marc.kaufmannmk at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have sent requests to book rooms in Emma and in the Law faculty for
> > > the squash, I hope that we will at least get one. Here is the list of
> > > groups that I said we would invite:
> > >
> > > CUSU Green
> > > CUECS Environmental Consulting Society
> > > CUEN Energy Network
> > > CU Entrepreneurs
> > > CUID International Development Society
> > > CU People and Planet
> > > CU Scientific Society
> > > Cambridge University Student Pugwash Society
> > > Three Seas
> > >
> > > I also mentioned that we might invite the four political groups
> > > (Conservatives, Greens, Labour, LibDems) and some more, depending on size of
> > > room etc (CUSP, Marshall Society, Humanitarian Centre). What do people think
> > > and how should the squash work? My personal view is that those that
> > > are not immediately relevant to climate change, or rather as a society do
> > > not have any position (Marshall society, politcal student groups etc) should
> > > be invited to come along and see what is going on and what they think they
> > > can do, while the others have on display what is currently going on and what
> > > they want to do. Otherwise the message about CC might be lost, if only half
> > > the societies there talk about it.
> > >
> > > Let me know what you think, and look at
> > >
> > > http://climatecoalition.phpbbnow.com/viewforum.php?f=1
> > >
> > > I'll post this there and we can discuss it without spamming everyone.
> > >
> > > Cool, take care,
> > >
> > > Marc
> > >
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