Meeting: April 19 Present: all

Announcements

• Bogota conference website is being put online
• Tomorrow is Spring Critical Mass in Prague. Bring magazines to the after-party.
• April 22 is a march through a nature area threatened by the D8 motorway
• April 28 is an event in Brno organized by Deti Zeme - awards ceremony for the 'Ropak Roku' ("environmental damager of the year")
• Arie is attending seminar organized by Zeleny Kruh on EU funding. They have been helpful in finding contacts for possible climate change protest in November.
• Randy heard about an architecture contest in Italy looking for 'traditional architecture'. He suggested to the list that some carfree architects get involved.
• Randy has photos of carfree villages in England.
• Randy is interested in being a partial on-site coordinator in York for Autoholics Anonymous, since he will probably be commuting between here and York
• Steve will not be here Friday and Monday

Agenda

1. Going to ESF in Athens
Reserving a table costs EUR 100 + registration EUR 150.
We will look into sharing a table with someone and doing mobile distribution of materials.

2. WCN Europe
Needs to be registered with Czech ministry of interior as soon as possible. The statutes should be done before AGM and shown to AGM, approved, and sent to ministry. Randy, Arie, Kamila maybe Radka (for Czech legal viewpoint) will go through the draft (other welcome to offer input). Need to address: voting rights. Relation (informal?) with non-European groups.

3. AGM
Zhaba workshop leaders (Jan and Adela on meeting facilitaing and strategic planning) will be paid EUR 400 each. Dan Schwartz (facilitating the AGM) wants 2 preparation days, meaning EUR 600 total. Randy will explain to Dan that we are budgeting for EUR 400, since this year is not as much work as last year, and will also ask him if he is willing to work with Arie, since he wrote negatively about her in last year's report.

4. Bogota - who is going?
By June we will find out if we have travel money (70%) for 5 people to Bogota. If we don't get this grant, then we will have almost no money to send anyone.
Randy: there should be at least two of us in Bogota. Randy + one other?
Kamila will find out now about tickets and if we can reserve at least two, even without names?
Or maybe Bogota organisers will have money to bring someone to do a workshop and one of us will do a workshop.
Arie: should be someone who will be with wCN for a while.

5. Steven's plans
Steven feel like he has little energy to continue (running out of enthusiasm), is going back to Canada next year and would like to do some other things here in Czech Republic (food coop etc) before returning.
He wants to work until end of June. He has already asked Rob Zverina, who we know, whether he might want to be part-time editor. For Visegrad project, we should try to find someone from one of the countries to be the project coordinator.
Steven will be in Canada from June 20 - end of July, so we should take care of organisational issues before then.
THERE WILL BE STRATEGIC MEETING FOR THE MAGAZINE NEXT WEDNESDAY!!