[Committee] Rooms
S. J. Stretton
sjstretton at googlemail.com
Sun Sep 23 20:33:35 GMT 2007
Thanks Marc for the email. The networks are starting to buzz so much
that I can't quite keep up! I've just been to a conference on Wild Law
which spent, spent lots of time communing with stones and leaves and
trees and talking about Koestler's theory of parts and wholes and the
intrinsic rights of Orang Utans. It was certainly good for the soul.
I have read and have no objections to thread.
> - 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.
It sounds like we at least need to work out who can help on the freshers
fair stall and then invite the Camlist if we need more help.
There's a rota here. Please look at your google docs or look at
read-only version here and reply by email.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pYa7sr0sMSERaaH3Jm-MaKQ
It would probably be better for the society to have a meeting next week,
although we can also meet at the weekend when Marc is back. I could make
Thursday or late Wednesday.
much love
Steve
BTW Any thoughts on "A Global Framework for monitoring the reduction the
Greenhouse gas emissions with a focus on the tropical rainforest
deforestation" for the African element of the pre-conference to the
post-Kyoto process.
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Dear Tim and Stephen, I'm forwarding this e mail to you to express my
concern about the contribution of our international
partners(researchers , civil society and Parliamentarians) to the
Conference general guideline document to be finalised by the end of next
month(see the attachement), the Panafrican Conference is planned for
November 2007(19 to 22). So i would be grateful if you could prepare a
reflexion on the following subjects.
1)The International Framework policy to address Climate Change and
Guarantee a suitable Post Kyoto regime with a comparison of some
emerging policies.(For Tim)
2) A Global Framework for monitoring the reduction the Greenhouse gas
emissions with a focus on the tropical rainforest deforestation(For
Stephen).
The african researchers , civil society, goverment Negotiators and
Parliamentarians are already working on various topics but we also need
the reflexion of our foreign partners and collaborators to make it be
rich. Please feel free to make any proposal or suggestion,i'm still
in Britain but i'm traveling back to Africa on Sunday the 30th of
September 2007. I look forward to hearing from you.
Warmly
Raphael
On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 10:44 +0200, Marc Kaufmann wrote:
> 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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