Board Minutes February 2012: Difference between revisions
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-what would the summer student do? a two-fold responsibility for bike-building & teaching maintenance | -what would the summer student do? a two-fold responsibility for bike-building & teaching maintenance | ||
-an event which focusses on our locations would be more appropriate, this time around... rather than too many off-site events and their volunteers | -an event which focusses on our locations would be more appropriate, this time around... rather than too many off-site events and their volunteers | ||
-cost/no cost... how much help do you need? the difference we need to make is between our co-operative-style shop vs. the relative slavery of bike mechanics in a traditional, full-service shop | |||
-Neil: maintain our position at Heritage Days, it took us two years to get back in and the exposure is well worth the trouble. | |||
-Bike Lanes, there was backlash from the communties, & admin councellors, the backlash includes critisism about their userbase, or that they're unsafe. However, the complaints were getting are not from all community members. Long-term change, into the 21st century, may include a lack of a car-parking in front of your home | |||
-Can we prove that bikes reduce auto-traffic cobngestion? (and relieve its attendent problems.) | |||
-The summer student... would be hired to build bikes/ | |||
Alex wants to spend more time building bikes, lets have more bikes available to be ridden away from the shop, for a more affordable & attractive rate than new. Also, emphasiiz the notion of recycling which our practice promotes. | |||