[gpva-ic] Fw: postpone meeting

[Audrey Clement]

Folks,

I echo Tamar's concerns below, that several people have already made 
arrangements to attend this meeting, and will be inconvenienced if they 
don't come.

Furthermore we DO have pressing business, i.e. to elect officers whose terms 
are up. Also the male co-chair seat is vacant. So even if other elections 
could be deferred this one cannot.

The time to call for postponement of the meeting was before the meeting 
announcements went out, not a week before the meeting.

In consideration of these arguments, I request that those who voted NO or 
ABSTAIN change your votes to YES.

Thanks,
Audrey

-----Original Message----- 
From: Tamar Yager
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2014 5:47 PM
To: Audrey Clement
Subject: postpone meeting

Audrey,
Since I am only an observer on the IC list, I'd like to weigh in on
postponing the meeting.  Can you send this to the IC for consideration?

It really doesn't matter to me whether we have an in-person meeting or
not.  I understand the concerns of some folks and the fact that some
don't think there is pressing business.

However, please consider the following:

-- We have several new young people who I think were planning on
coming.  I don't think we want to lose the energy of young folks.
-- Our email lists often turn people off.  Then when they meet in
person, things change for the better.
-- We can continue officers for awhile - but does that change the term
length.
--We may not have "pressing" business but it is hard to build the party
if we don't get together face-to-face.
-- We can create a google hang-out or skype people in.  If someone
doesn't have that ability at home, we should consider sending them a
subsidy to pay for it somewhere like Kinko's.
--It took awhile to find this location.  If our next meeting is to be in
the Shenandoah Valley area, please, please, let's set a date soon so I
can see if I can find a free library or community space.
--If we don't have a face-to-face meeting that leaves out a lot of folks
that are active if the IC makes decisions, including Tom and myself,
Hampton Roads folks, Sid Smith, maybe others.  If we don't have a
face-to-face, what about a teleconference instead.

Tamar Yager