30 June 2012 Session Minutes

TIiA Session Minutes by Rosie

Date: Sat 30 June 2012

Place: Design for Change office, Taipei (between Zhongxiao Fuxing and Daan MRT stations)

Attendees: Lynn, Liang, Jasper, Christine, Hal, Rosie

Part 1: Icebreaker, led by Lynn

Everyone brought an object that represented one of our passions.

--Liang loves delicious food and social networking. He is a big fan of TED TALKs.

--Jasper has a passion for taking notes in a notebook about anything he's interested in. He alternates using a white, and then a black notebook!

--Rosie has a passion for eating snacks, drinking coffee and collecting art sketches.

--Christine is passionate about her bank job and reading. She has worked in the same company for decades. She has devoted herself to her job. She's hoping her boss will see this blog!

--Hal brought his professional camera. He is into photography and told us about many things that he's experienced.

--Lynn feels she may be one of just a few people around who can say they maybe get TOO much exercise. She does 2 sets of stretching exercises every morning, and then cleans her floor. As long as it's not raining, she bicycles to work. She swims 3 times a week (for the last 35 years—it's her religion!) and always walks up and down the MRT escalators!

Part 2, led by Liang

Topic: HOW to ENCOURAGE MORE MEMBER PARTICIPATION in TIiA, using the Design for Change model of problem-solving

This was a continuation of our last session on 16 June.

First of all, he played a video “How to start a movement－Derek Sivers” on the TED TALK webpage.

Discussion re: Question：If I’m a quiet person, is that good for TIiA or is TIiA a social group requiring more talkative people?

Answer:

We all have an important role to play in a small group. Everyone should have their role to play. For example Steve Wozniak is a quiet guy and quite a different character from Steve Jobs. He contributed to Apple in the way he was good at.

Actions taken:

We started a TIiA community Facebook page. It’ll be managed by Christine mainly; Liang and Rosie will assist her. Before future sessions, we’ll announce the topic and add the related link to the TIiA blog. After each session, we’ll post the Session Minutes and any photos taken at sessions.

The final To Do list:

1.Blog banner / create a TIiA logo.

2. Collect photos related to Taiwan. We’ll put photos on FB or blog and rotate them every once in a while .

All of us had fun. We finished at around 5:10pm, an hour beyond the normal finishing time!

NB: No donations taken at this session—Lynn forgot to pass around the red bag!