OOC Collective Minutes October 4

OOC Collective Minutes October 4

Attendance: Cass, Jeff, Wynde, Erica, Jenny, Wanli, Claire, Jamie, Karl.

1. Rounds, roles:
Roles: Facilitator-Erica
Door-Wynde
Vibes-Jamie
Time-Jeff
Minutes-Wanli

2. Book launch:
When: October 11th (Tues), 12-2pm
Where: Out On Campus
Jeff will rearrange the furniture (which he needs some volunteer help with) in order to allow the space to accommodate about 30 people. Jeff needed the approval from collective to grant him $50 (which will come from “socials”) to get some refreshments for the event. Collective twinkled on this.

3. After Hours Café:
Both Jeff and Erica haven’t heard anything from Emily. The After Hours launch will be postponed for a week. It should be launched the Tuesday after the book launch, October 11th, since it’s more feasible to do so. If anyone is interested in helping out, please let Erica know.

4. Committee updates:
Website committee: Jeff hasn’t heard anything from them.
Halloween party committee: Wanli and Veronique will speak on this matter, come up with a financial proposal for the party and bring it to the next collective.
Pub night committee: Wanli and Wynde have agreed to help Mike.
Celebrities Night: Lindsay has been in contact with Celebrities (“Queer Students Unite @ Celebrities Student Social in association with various on campus groups). It will be held on the first Friday of every month from 8-10pm. These are the parameters if we would like to do a social there: 1. Celebrities would like to post the OOC logo on their advertisement (admission is free for all queer students with a valid student ID-includes entrance to club night after the social) 2. We would need to print 20 to 30 posters once a month.
Discussion: Do we want our logo to be associated with the corporation? Erica brought up the SFSS Corporate Affiliations Policy:
1. The affiliation should be beneficial to students.
2. The corporation needs to be ethically sound
3. There should be considerable flexibility in pulling out if need be
There’s no need to follow these requirements strictly, but it should be something we as a club should consider carefully.
Another issue is the fact that we might need someone to do a poster run once a month. We can get a staff person to do that, or we can do it ourselves.
Conclusion: Lindsay will keep us updated, this matter can wait.

T-shirt committee: The committee has yet to have a meeting. They are in contact with CJSF, who are also getting T-shirts and we might be able to get a discount.

5. S.A.F.E.R. workshop: At the last collective, we’ve decided that the crisis centre is too expensive. S.A.F.E.R. has agreed to do a crisis intervention workshop around late October / early November for FREE. Jerry Stochanski will be holding the workshop. However, they would like as many people as possible to attend the workshop (at least 15, or anywhere from 20 to 30 people). We might need to open it to the general public then. Jeff would like volunteers or anyone out there to attend the workshop!!

6. OOC in Convocation Mall:
Byron has booked Convocation Mall for October 25, Tuesday, 9am to 5pm.
It will be held on the same day as the Muslim students association’s event there. We can have collective meetings there. Jeff needs volunteers to bring everything (furniture) back to the space after the event. Jeff will e-mail the list for volunteers. Wynde and Claire have agreed to help out. Jeff will also think up a financial proposal (for hot chocolate or cider) and bring it back to collective next week.

7. A.S.I.A. workshops:
There will be 3 workshops – 1.Sexual/self-esteem 2. HIV 101 3.Anti-racism/cultural sensitivity
The money will come from Honoraria. They will be held at the end of October or early November. These workshops are really good for volunteer training.

8. Secret Friends:
Secret Friends have started again, for the fall. The sign-up sheet is in the space. The secret friends list from the summer semester has been revealed and is up at OOC.
Discussion: There needs to be a newly assigned area for secret friends. The current situation is not sustainable! Jeff made a suggestion to hang a fishing line and use clips to hold the lunch bags. Karl suggested we might want to look for something more re-usable, since it’s done every semester, using and throwing away lunch bags is just too wasteful. Suggestions were made: stockings or shoeboxes could be used instead!!

9. D.G.S. workshop funding:
So far, 2 people have e-mailed Jeff about attending the Dirty Gender Secrets workshop. It’s a 3-day conference that will take place from the 21st to the 23rd of October. If there are any other requests to attend the workshop, they should be submitted by Friday. People interested in attending the workshop will need to pre-register on their own.

10. Book Buy/ Inventory:
We need to set a date for the book buy. However, before we do the book buy, we need to do an inventory for the library. Jeff would need 5 -10 volunteers to help out with this. It will be scheduled for October 13th (Thurs). The library committee came in after last week’s collective and did some organization and made some calls for resources that have been taken out. We’re unsure if they want to stay around and be on the library committee, it might be a better idea if interested new volunteers started up a new committee to help instead. Jeff will send out an e-mail. Wynde and Claire have agreed to help. We will figure out a date for the book buy after the inventory is done.

11. Additions:

a. Next week, we need to move collective due to the book launch. Collective twinkled on moving next week’s collective to Thursday, October 13th from 12.30 to 2pm.
b. SFSS Cinema is showing “The Shawshank Redemption” on Thursday at 4.30pm
c. Colouring Book Fundraiser @ Lick, Friday, October 21st. It starts at 9pm. Members of OOC will be performing/participating, so do come out and support the event!
d. There’s a Board of directors meeting at 5pm today in MBC. If anyone is interested in knowing how the student union works, they should come and sit in. The meeting is open to the public.