[Namron] Populace Meeting

[fynreswolf at aol.com]

I do have to apologize, I am one of the culprit's any one who knows me 
knows the line "Terric, shut up" will often work on me, to some extent. 
again apologies all around
Terric


"Once you have pulled the pin from Mr. Grenade he is no longer your 
friend"


-----Original Message-----
From: Lindsey Lewis <lindseybellam at aol.com>
To: Barony of Namron Mailing List <namron at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 6:11 pm
Subject: Re: [Namron] Populace Meeting










Bill, thanks for bringing this up, I was one of the guilty ones, seeing
Terric's brother after a number of years made me forget. As to how to 
shut
people up, I tried for years, I came right out and named people who 
talked
all the time (Terric) and it did not seem to help. I love the idea of 
the
squeaky mallet, it would be funny and yet serve a useful purpose. I 
think
part of the trouble is that in a restaurant situation it is hard not to
visit and chat and disrupt the meeting, so many of our officers have 
quiet
voices and are hard to hear even if you are sitting close by. You may 
have
opened up a bigger can of worms than you originally thought. Lets all 
try
and have good manner, they are the oil that greases the machinery of our
Society and society in general. We can do this, we do not need to act 
like
unruly children. Well, there is my dollars worth - Gwyneth
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Herron" <fitzbubba at gmail.com>
To: "Barony of Namron Mailing List" <namron at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:22 PM
Subject: [Namron] Populace Meeting


> I'd like some feedback from the list.  I think there's a problem here,
> but it may just be in my delusional mind.
>
> I was going to speak this evening about the open officer positions and
> encourage people who *haven't* done offices in the past to get
> involved.  By the time it came around to me to speak I was unhappy
> enough that if I had gotten up I would have said things and probably
> pissed people off, personally.  So I kept my mouth shut.
>
> One of the things that I've been doing in the populace meetings is
> taking notes.  I then send them to our seneschal, who reviews them
> (and corrects my spelling) before I publish them to this list.
>
> Quite frankly, I had trouble doing notes tonight because of the noise
> level.  I don't mean the fact that we were having our meeting at a
> restaurant...I mean because there is so much talk amongst the
> populace, especially while officers are trying to give their reports
> and conduct their business.  (By the way, if you're trying to take
> notes, you really can't talk much yourself.  My parents always slapped
> me with "you can't hear while you're talking" when I was growing up,
> so they'd be pleased to say "I told you so" about now.)
>
> In addition, the people that I could identify as being the ones
> generating the noise are not new people who don't understand how this
> works.  I saw people who have been around for years and years, who
> have held offices and know how hard it is to get up there and conduct
> their business while the populace (effectively) ignores them and talks
> among themselves.
>
> So, the first part of my question for the list is:
>
> Do we have a problem with too much conversation amongst the populace
> during the "business" portion of the populace meeting?
>
> And, if you answer "yes", then the second part is:
>
> What do we do about the people who are talking during the "business"
> portion of the populace meeting?
>
> I'm not saying we start grabbing people by the collar and physically
> throwing them out of the meeting.  We may want to agree, as a
> populace, to have some sort of sergeant-at-arms that goes around and
> quietly "suggest" that people take their private conversations outside
> of the meeting area.  (Or I can get one of those inflatable mallets
> with a squeaky-sound inside of it and smack people on the head to get
> them to shut up.)
>
> Again, if you don't think there's a problem here, don't hesitate to
> tell me so.  I fully admit to being in the "grumpy old man" mode, and
> it may be that I'm going to just have to start wearing some sort of
> directional headset so I can hear better when I'm taking notes.
>
> Care,
> Bubba
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