Reminder: Second Pride Annual Meeting 2014

The annual meeting of Second Pride will be held on Saturday July 19, 2014, at 11.00 AM SLT, and will take place in the auditorium on the Second Pride sim (SLurl). 

The agenda of the meeting (as posted on the Second Pride website) is:

1. Call to Order
2. Department reviews
3. Plan for Second Pride donation to real life (a.k.a. first life, my comment) charity
4. Election Time Table and procedures
5. New Business 
6. Adjourn

SP Board Meeting - Today at 12 PM (noon)

Agenda

1. Marketing Director - declaring it open.
2. Events Director - declaring it open
3. Status update on Festival.
4. New Business
5. Adjourn

This should be a pretty interesting meeting seeing we are less than three months away from the Festival.

The vendor and sponsor packages are up at the Second Pride website already. Here is a link to the Festival Package Comparison Chart for both vendors and sponsors.

Due to prior engagement I will be attending the meeting as my alt Wild Zepp, who is the Secretary of State of Southern Charm.

SP Meeting - March 30, 2014, 12PM (noon) SLT

This post is a reminder that there will be a Second Pride Board meeting today Sunday March 30, 2014, at 12.00 PM (noon) SLT.

The agenda of the day looks pretty uneventful, but one never really knows what is hidden in these documents or what may just happen. So I am going, as I mostly do, and hope to be joined by many of you.

Here is your parade float to the auditorium at the Second Pride sim (SLurl).

SP Meeting - March 9, 2014, 12PM (noon) SLT

 There is a Second Pride public board meeting today at noon SLT, at the conference hall at Second Pride sim (SLurl).

For complete information on the vendor/sponsor packs for the Pride Festival please visit the Second Pride website.

Come one, come all!

SP Meeting - March 2, 2014, 12PM (noon) SLT

This post is to remind ya'll that there is a Second Pride Board meeting today Sunday March 2, 2014, at 12.00PM (noon) SLT.

From today's agenda I think the two most interesting may be the information on Fashion Pride and the announcement of the Festival dates. (Hopefully I will be able plan parts of my summer vacation to accommodate the Pride Festival.)

I hope to see you all at the meeting! Here is your rainbow painted float to the Second Pride Conference Hall (SLurl).

Second Pride Board Reshuffles

It's been awhile since I was able to attend a Second Pride board meeting, but I follow whats going on closely by reading the agendas and minutes that are posted at the Second Pride website (url).

Lately there have been a few interesting developments that I would like to report for those of you who do not have the time, inclination or patience to read minutes.

Tylo Mabellon (picture), who was elected to the Marketing Chair, has been voted off the board for having missed more than three consecutive regularly scheduled meetings without notification. 

I am hoping that Tylo is well, despite having failed to respond to the questions from the board. He is a pleasant man that worked well as marketing director during the last board.

Merrick Genesis (picture) was voted in to replace Tylo as Marketing Chair at the board's latest meeting on November 13, 2013.

The elected Security Director Gaius Tripsa (picture) was voted off the board at the last meeting for having missed four consecutive regularly scheduled meetings without notification. 

An open call has been made for parties interested in taking over the Security Chair to submit a notecard to the secretary/co-chair Petr Hastings-Vanbeeck as soon as possible. The applications will be posted on the Second Pride website for discussion and comments by the membership.

I don't believe that losing Gaius as a board member is a loss to the board in any way. From what I have observed Gaius has since the elections mostly been destructive and acting as a puppet for the losing faction in the election. He has invariably tried to cause as much havoc and damage as he possibly could whenever or wherever he could, both at meetings and in-between them.

So far two applications have come in and have been posted on the forum. One of the applications is from a European man, Tylendel Falconer, and the other is from an American woman, Sutry Long. As I see it both of them would be qualified and a welcome addition in diversifying the board, whether it be to broaden its geographical base or to improve the gender balance.)

Petr Hastings-Vanbeeck urged the other members of the board to consider appointing co-chairs, so that no-quorum meetings can be avoided in the future. Petr also announced that Andy Long (picture) had agreed to be his Secretary Co-Chair for 2014. 

At the meeting the question was raised on why the board had changed the normal time of the board meetings from Sundays at 11AM to Wednesdays at 7PM. The reply given was that this "is currently (the) time when we can definitely get all the board together to be able to hold a meeting with quorum."

I certainly hope that the board will consider the question of what time to hold its meetings carefully in the future, when they have replaced all the vacancies and non-attendees and also appointed co-chairs, because the new time of the board meeting only accentuates the impression that Second Pride is solely an American affair, which I do not believe is quite the impression the board wishes to convey.