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- Mon Feb 23, 2009 3:32 pm
- Forum: Events
- Topic: coffee making training day
- Replies: 0
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coffee making training day
hello. here at the forest we've been accused of making bad coffee. making a good coffee isn't hard. some of us care enough to want to help you make coffee better. in fact, stephen has organised a coffee training session, 2pm monday march 2nd , here in the cafe. do you want to be trained to make coff...
- Mon Feb 23, 2009 3:24 pm
- Forum: Events
- Topic: cleaning days are mondays.
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2740
cleaning days are mondays.
hello, mondays are cleaning days. the cafe is not open until 3pm. you can come and help clean (like we're doing today - so satisfying...) and have free teas and coffees for your efforts. if you are actually coming in because you need something to eat, you should sign up for a shift, or volunteer for...
- Mon Feb 09, 2009 12:24 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: don't DIY alone... thanks
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2753
don't DIY alone... thanks
hey everyone
thanks to everyone who made the Don't DIY Alone fest so much fun... the DIY collective, the the KM's & NM's, all the kitchen helpers, the people who ran workshops or held stalls, and the sound team - who rocked the DIY disco til beyond the wee hours.
xx scoutt
thanks to everyone who made the Don't DIY Alone fest so much fun... the DIY collective, the the KM's & NM's, all the kitchen helpers, the people who ran workshops or held stalls, and the sound team - who rocked the DIY disco til beyond the wee hours.
xx scoutt
- Fri Feb 06, 2009 12:21 pm
- Forum: Volunteering
- Topic: let's make a volunteer info guide!
- Replies: 29
- Views: 44525
Re: let's make a volunteer info guide!
ok volly guide is updated with Simone and Ida's suggestions.
I will print some off (10 maybe) and put some in the kitchen. I will save a version of th guide on the Willow computer in the Kitchen folder on the desktop. and here it is too.
I will print some off (10 maybe) and put some in the kitchen. I will save a version of th guide on the Willow computer in the Kitchen folder on the desktop. and here it is too.
- Fri Feb 06, 2009 12:01 pm
- Forum: Volunteering
- Topic: let's make a volunteer info guide!
- Replies: 29
- Views: 44525
Re: let's make a volunteer info guide!
aftr this weekend I am happy to help with training stuff. I have written one before for my old job, plus ones for vollies I used to manage too.
- Mon Jan 12, 2009 6:42 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: other cool foresty organisations
- Replies: 84
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Re: other cool foresty organisations
http://www.fabricadesombreros.org/
The factory of Hats - squatted social centre in Sevilla, Spain
flamenco, yoga, library, circus, cinema ... museum of hat-making...
Huerta del rey Morros
The Garden of the Moors? a squatted permaculture garden and social space in Sevilla
The factory of Hats - squatted social centre in Sevilla, Spain
flamenco, yoga, library, circus, cinema ... museum of hat-making...
Huerta del rey Morros
The Garden of the Moors? a squatted permaculture garden and social space in Sevilla
- Fri Dec 19, 2008 8:23 pm
- Forum: Volunteering
- Topic: let's make a volunteer info guide!
- Replies: 29
- Views: 44525
Re: let's make a volunteer info guide!
ok...
I'm not sure if I'll get a chance to work on this before I leave (sunday) but if anyone wants to take it on, go for ya life. I might not be back until february. sorry 'bout that, address all complaints to UK Border Agency.
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I'm not sure if I'll get a chance to work on this before I leave (sunday) but if anyone wants to take it on, go for ya life. I might not be back until february. sorry 'bout that, address all complaints to UK Border Agency.
s
- Fri Dec 12, 2008 7:08 pm
- Forum: Events
- Topic: Edinburgh Zine-o-rama! Hear ye! Feb 2009!
- Replies: 2
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- Fri Dec 12, 2008 7:07 pm
- Forum: Events
- Topic: "Don't DIY Alone!" A radical DIY-o-rama here in Edinburgh!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 19094
- Fri Dec 12, 2008 6:44 pm
- Forum: Volunteering
- Topic: let's make a volunteer info guide!
- Replies: 29
- Views: 44525
new DRAFT
ok so with some input from some folks here's the latest draft. If you care about it, take a look. there is a hardcopy of the draft in the action room as well as in the drawer of doom in the kitchen, or this electronic version. write on it, draw pictures whatever. there is talk of having an insert wh...
- Thu Dec 04, 2008 1:45 pm
- Forum: Volunteering
- Topic: let's make a volunteer info guide!
- Replies: 29
- Views: 44525
Re: let's make a volunteer info guide!
There are 2 draft hardcopies now.
One in the kitchen, one in the action room.
Also this electronic version.
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One in the kitchen, one in the action room.
Also this electronic version.
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- Fri Nov 28, 2008 4:35 pm
- Forum: Volunteering
- Topic: let's make a volunteer info guide!
- Replies: 29
- Views: 44525
Re: let's make a volunteer info guide!
ok so:
there's a bit missing here about what's ok in terms of behaviour and what's not ok and volunteer rights etc. insert "safer spaces policy" here. oh wait, we haven't got one yet.
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there's a bit missing here about what's ok in terms of behaviour and what's not ok and volunteer rights etc. insert "safer spaces policy" here. oh wait, we haven't got one yet.
s
- Wed Nov 19, 2008 1:00 pm
- Forum: Volunteering
- Topic: let's make a volunteer info guide!
- Replies: 29
- Views: 44525
Re: let's make a volunteer info guide!
thanks for the input! so, james or others: can you give more of the information you suggested? eg. how do you actually get in touch with the film people? where are the library stickers? do you really think I should put info about consensus decision making? this guide is supposed to just be an introd...
- Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:53 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: Buy Nothing Day
- Replies: 39
- Views: 37516
Re: Buy Nothing Day
will FNB be anywhere near the antimilitarist gathering?
- Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:46 pm
- Forum: Volunteering
- Topic: let's make a volunteer info guide!
- Replies: 29
- Views: 44525
Re: let's make a volunteer info guide!
here's the guide so far. We need info on lost property process, the shiny new colour coded cleaning stuff, and health & safety, any other info that Forest needs to put in for legal reasons at this point there is a lot of introductory info about the Forest. If people think it's unnecessary, we'll tak...
- Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:10 pm
- Forum: Volunteering
- Topic: let's make a volunteer info guide!
- Replies: 29
- Views: 44525
Re: let's make a volunteer info guide!
thanks Milk
- Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:43 pm
- Forum: Kitchen
- Topic: blackboard is the new black
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5658
blackboard is the new black
hey so... got some blackboard paint. wondering what dimensions of board I should make. suggestions that we talked about at the meeting were to have a hinged kind of thing that you can take down and whatnot and then suggestion that it goes above the coffee machine in front of all the weird and somewh...
- Tue Nov 11, 2008 1:52 pm
- Forum: Make/Sell
- Topic: moving the freeshop
- Replies: 117
- Views: 129528
if it weren't for the freeshop I would be a very cold money-less visitor to edinburgh. hopefully Ryan is not referring to people like me when he mentions "human flies"... I love the freeshop. a free shop is a radical statement. a swap shop is not free. i would love the freeshop to be available all t...
- Tue Nov 11, 2008 1:10 pm
- Forum: Volunteering
- Topic: let's make a volunteer info guide!
- Replies: 29
- Views: 44525
Re: let's make a volunteer info guide!
OK then,
so: if you are the contact person for a particular project within the Forest please think of the things you want volunteers to know and be able to tell other people about.
and tell me & Emi really soon
thanks
so: if you are the contact person for a particular project within the Forest please think of the things you want volunteers to know and be able to tell other people about.
and tell me & Emi really soon
thanks
- Fri Nov 07, 2008 4:40 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: cava to celebrate
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5940
Re: cava to celebrate
not to dim your enthusiasm, but Rosa Parks wasn't the first, as it states in the wikipedia article you linked to, also it's often overlooked that Rosa Parks wasn't just any woman on the bus who just "got fed up", she was well involved with the civil rights movement before the bus boycott. she defini...
- Thu Nov 06, 2008 8:22 pm
- Forum: Volunteering
- Topic: let's make a volunteer info guide!
- Replies: 29
- Views: 44525
let's make a volunteer info guide!
So, at the artists & facilities meeting just now, and last night at the cafe/events meeting we talked about better orientation/introduction for new volunteers. Whoa! there's so much information and so much to find out about the forest, like: "what the hell is the cave and who can I give the key to" ...