[GREN-Exec] WREN-GREN

[Susan Koswan]

It looks like Felix Munger, who had spoken with us way back when, is with this for-profit org’n now: http://www.sscg.org/

 

So WREN would be “bigger” than his work, although I believe he’s a founding member of WREN.

 

Yes, we need to talk about WREN. I won’t be there, as you know, but here’s some info:

 

Green Rocket is their website http://www.greenrocket.ca/green-rocket/ and these are their glorious leaders...(reference to Rocky and Bullwinkle... lol) 

greenrocketteam

 

From: Executive [mailto:executive-bounces at gren.ca] On Behalf Of Susan Bryant
Sent: April-02-14 12:38 PM
To: John Jackson; GREN Exec
Subject: Re: [GREN-Exec] WREN-GREN

 

I don’t know enough to weigh in. I read the emails, but didn’t engage other than to thank Greg for his response to Robert’s initial salvo. It all got murky to me after that.

 

Whatever you decide is fine with me. I’ll do minutes.

 

Susan B 

 

From: John Jackson <mailto:jjackson at web.ca>  

Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2014 11:07 AM

To: GREN Executive <mailto:executive at gren.ca>  

Subject: [GREN-Exec] WREN-GREN

 

It hasn’t 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 “Report from WREN meeting” 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 “dialogue” 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 THURSDAY’S 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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Kitchener, Ontario N2H 4R1
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