[GREN-Exec] WREN-GREN

[John Jackson]

It hasn¹t worked out for us to have a meeting before the next GREN meeting
to discuss the website. I would now like to do it in the week after the GREN
meeting.

Fortunately the GREN vs WREN e-mails seem to have ended. I propose that we
put ³Report from WREN meeting² on the agenda for the GREN meeting next
Thursday. I think to not put WREN on the agenda would look like we were
burying our heads in the sand and would create further tensions. I do not
see this, however, as a continuation of the ³dialogue² that was going on in
the e-mails. I see it as a way to get people more informed of WREN. Should I
invite someone from WREN to come to the meeting to fill people in on WREN,
etc. or should we just have reports from the GREN people who attended the
WREN meeting? The PRO of having a WREN person there is that we will gain
more detail on WREN and their plans and it will be more complete. The ANTI
is that the GREN members who attended may feel less open in saying what they
thought of the meeting. We also must remember, however, that it is likely
that WREN will know that a report on the WREN meeting is on our agenda and
will show up anyway because some of them are on our GREN e-mail list.

PLEASE LET ME KNOW RIGHT AWAY HOW YOU WANT TO PROCEED ON WREN AT NEXT
THURSDAY¹S MEETING:
1. Put WREN meeting on agenda?
2. Invite a person from WREN to come to do a report on WREN?

Kevin and I expect to have a meeting with WREN next Wednesday to explore the
situation. I do not see the outcome of that meeting as being something
brought to the meeting on Thursday ­ the next day after the WREN-GREN
meeting. 

It is because of these events that I think it is essential that we have a
GREN Executive meeting as soon after the full GREN meeting as possible so we
can have a serious discussion on the next steps forward and on the
discussion Kevin and I have had. We also can then discuss our website,
because the WREN-GREN relationship may affect the website needs.

John

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John Jackson
17 Major Street
Kitchener, Ontario N2H 4R1
519-744-7503


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