VH Town Hall Meeting

The VH Town Hall Meeting is a public meeting that will be lead by an undetermined moderator on Monday, May 27th at 5 p.m. Eastern Time in the Fourth Wall. The purpose of the meeting is to continue the discussion from Saturday's meeting and more broadly discuss topics that were brought up. Hopefully, you can bear with us throughout everything, although given how long it's been since we've done this, we do rather expect this to end up being a long meet-up regardless! Brings drinks, grab snacks or food beforehand, and be ready to read and think and write! Also, feel free to put your name on the list of folks guaranteed a spot to talk, below!

Rules

To keep discussion civil and organized, the following rules will be in place:

• One person, selected by the current moderator, speaks at a time, unless otherwise stated. Everyone will have a chance to express their ideas and feelings, but to ensure these ideas and feelings are seen by everyone else, the one overseeing the meeting will be selecting one person at a time to speak. Please be especially cautious about this rule. Opinions are worthwhile, and should be heard, but speaking out, out of place, leads to a clusterfuck of conversations very fast.
• Please be quiet when the overseer asks for silence. Please don't be the one with a five-line paragraph you're rushing out a minute after he says something. If you really need to respond to someone, do it privately if possible.
• Stay on topic. We want to cover as many issues as possible in this meeting, and the best way to do this is to stay focused and not get sidetracked on other topics.
• Treat others with respect. It is okay to have a disagreement with someone, but please remain civil if it happens. There is no need for anybody to get hostile.
• Be patient. Although we will try to keep things moving as briskly as possible, this is likely to be a long, drawn-out and thought-provoking meeting. Although we hope it will be a positive experience for everyone, it is still a serious event, and we will be taking everything raised, seriously - which means giving even folks who don't type or talk at 100+ words-per-minute the change to voice their concerns. There will be ample time to step away and grab a drink or take a walk while others are presenting, so don't be afraid you'll miss something by stepping away for a minute.
• Follow the overseer's instructions. There may be 'open discussion' periods, during which the floor will be opened up for free-flowing conversation, and anyone who wishes to can pitch in a comment without waiting to be selected to speak, but when the topic's been discussed a bit, or if the conversation begins to get too heated, order will be called and participants are expected to calm and quiet down and return to the one-at-a-time methodology.

In general, we'll be trying to keep things orderly while still giving everyone who wants to, the chance to contribute. It may not work perfectly, but we'll do the best we can.

If you're looking for the notes for the meeting on Saturday, May 25th, they have been commented out to make way for content for the continuation of that meeting, on May 27th, 5 P.M. EST.

Topics to be discussed for the May 27th meeting continuation

If you would like to submit a topic, click the top-right button marked Edit, there will be a quick wiki-editing guide on how to format it if you don't know how. Alternatively, you can send your topic to Kaoru, and he will edit this page to add your topic to the list.

Topics not on the wiki page will not be discussed at the next meeting unless there is spare time.

1. Retna's Vision, Community Growth, and Movement Policy. This will be a continuation of the discussion started at the previous meeting. There are still issues that need to be sorted out.
2. Moderator Issues. This topic was brought up at the previous meeting, but some of the moderators weren't prepared to discuss the issue. In this discussion, we should make an effort to define what a moderator should and should not be doing, because people's opinions differ on the matter.