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; When: Wednesday, 9 January 2018 at 6:00pm
; Where: KWIC Co-working Centre, 2nd Floor of the Boehmer Box Building, 283 Duke Street West, Kitchener {{map|url=""}}
; Who: Laurel Russwurm, David Weber, Trevor Pollitt, David Dolson, Teresa Cornwell, Stephanie Goertz, Tori Miknovic, Henry, Cameron, Meg Ruttan Walker, Ian Graham, Sam Nabi, Kirsten , Kris Braun, Seth Ratslaf, Stacey Danckert, Ian McGregor

=== Introductions ===
* Q&A -- Members ask and answer questions

=== Nomination Meetings ===
* Candidate counts: Kitchener Centre has 6 nomination candidates
* Joint Kitchener Centre and Waterloo nomination meeting to be held Wednesday, 6 March 2019 (WR Greens regular meeting day)
** This means Monday, 4 February 2019 is the cutoff for new memberships eligible to vote in the nomination contest.
* Joint Kitchener South--Hespler, Kitchener--Conestoga, and Cambridge nomination to be held on Wednesday, 3 April 2019
** Cutoff for new memberships would be Monday, 4 March 2019
** Venue for KitSHesp, KitCon, Cambrige nomination meeting: Edelweiss Tavern on Doon Village Road, Kitchener?

* Lapsed members (less than one year overdue) can renew membership at the nomination meetings
* There needs to be a quorum of members for a nomination contest
* If nominees have question please contact Randi Ramdeen randi.ramdeen@greenparty.ca ; she's the Ontario provincial contact for the Green Party of Canada
* Registered nominees get information from their EDA, eg. Green Party membership list

==== Campaign Funding ====
* Elections Canada has rules about campaign funding for nomination contests
** If a nominee spends money on the nomination campaign that nominee must appoint a Financial Agent, bank account, auditor, &c.
** So, don't spend money on your nomination contest
** If a Financial Agent is needed for zero-cost nomination campaigns then Theresa Cornwell can be your Financial Agent

==== Contested Nominations ====
* Joint nomination contests are unique to Waterloo Region
* Even electoral districts with only a single nominee will have a nomination contest against "None Of The Above"

==== Pre-nomination Meeting ====
* For nominees in all five Waterloo Region ridings (Kitchener Centre, Waterloo, Kitchener South -- Hespeler, Kitchener -- Conestoga, Cambridge)
* Gives all nominees a trial run at campaigning
* Should this be a social event? Yes.
* Will be held on Thursday, 31 January 2019 (6:00pm?)
** Venues considered:
*** KWIC, 2nd floor of the old Boehmer Box Building
*** Church (Waterloo Grand River Church?)
*** Huether Jazz Room? (needs a minimum of 30 people, but then it's free)
*** 1 King Street North (Waterloo), a co-working site
*** The Working Centre, Fresh Ground Cafe
*** Retirement homes?
*** Morning Glory Cafe?
** Book a small venue, then rebook to a larger venue if necessary
** Try Jazz Room first

* Have a training session for candidates?
** Either through the GPC, or by webinars
** Stacey Danckert could help to organize

* What is our reach?
** Waterloo mailing list is 1,500, with 30% of recipients opening the messages
** Website has about 2,300 followers that get e-mail for new posts
* Press events?
** CBC has again not included Greens in their recent morning show
* Media buys?

=== Green Walks ===
* Initiated by Ian McGregor and Tom Nagy
* Green Walks will be made a part of the official campaign for Waterloo, a central component in the Waterloo EDA
** Other electoral districts to join?
** Other people to join?
* People commit to voting Green for climate action if we pass a threshold of support: 50, 250, 20,000?
** Method: People going for a walk to explain the Green Walk principle and Green Party policies
** Keep a list, riding-related
* This is a good campaign for Kitchenre Centre and Waterloo, and other ridings
* There should be a website to allow people to participate, self-select, and see results.
** Website should track both streams (self-selected and invitations to participate), A-B testing
** Checks the difference between making a human connection and clicktivism (merely clicking on a website button)
** Need a design session?

* "I'll do, will you?"
** Four key points:
**# A threshold of commitments (web and personal)
**# A clear, personal relationship
**# An object to wear (bracelet, amulet)
**# Followed up with a "We Remember" party, celebration

* Hash-taggable, put on campaign signs
** Keep the number of signups visible
** Assurances that this is not ''all'' Greens
** Have a reveal of numbers after a higher total has been reached

* Green Walk numbers will be good in door knocking during campaign

* Write two e-mails:
** "We have 20,000 signups, go vote!"
** "We have (some other threshold), go vote!"

* What if we don't get our targets?
** People follow through
** Walks foster friendship

* Roles for Green Walks
** Organizing, recruiting
** Adminstration: keeping tabs on numbers
** Marketing: strategy and execution
*** design and website
** Strategy: designing the event
** Have an e-mail list?

* Ideas to export this idea to other Green Parties (if successful)

=== Committee Reports ===

==== Communications ====
* Difficulty getting a committee meeting together
* Social media, and general marketing strategy
** Most of this work has been done by Laurel Russwurm
* There is no cohesive strategy
* There is no paid campaign
* There are no tools like ''Buffer''
* Need to redo website?
** Copy and rebrand WREN site?
*** But that site is not finished yet

* We'll get more volunteers once election campaigns kick off
* Candidates will bring in their networks
* Communicate with existing Mailchimp lists
** Get some volunteers coming out from these lists

==== Volunteers ====

* Pages of ideas
** But execution is tough with only three members on the Volunteer Committee
** Dependent on action by the Communications Committee

* Would the WR Greens be better with a board of directors?
** Big picture thinking?
** Committee chairs as executives?
** Or an Executive member from the riding associations?
** At least five people
** Would provide structure for the Committees
*** ie. What should Communications do?
** Provide structure for the candidates

* Stacey will:
** Contact the Executive mailing list
** Get coordinated before the October election

* Local sustainability groups are talking about the election
** Other social justice groups too

* Get a meeting of the Communications Committee re: website

==== Events ====
* Doug Ford is having a fundraiser at Bingemans
** There will be a protest.
* Rebook the Post-Holiday event for Earth Day?
** No, that's Easter Sunday
* Have a Post-Nomination Event
* Other events

Meeting notes taken by Bob Jonkman

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 ; When: Wednesday, 9 January 2018 at 6:00pm
-; Where: KWIC Co-working  Centre, 2nd Floor of the Boehmer Box Building, 283 Duke Street West, Kitchener {{map|url="https://osm.org/go/ZXnwU_oa?m="}}
+; Where: KWIC Co-working  Centre, 2nd Floor of the Boehmer Box Building, 283 Duke Street West, Kitchener {{map|url=https://osm.org/go/ZXnwU_oa?m=}}
 ; Who: Laurel Russwurm, David Weber, Trevor Pollitt, David Dolson, Teresa Cornwell, Stephanie Goertz, Tori Miknovic, Henry, Cameron, Meg Ruttan Walker, Ian Graham, Sam Nabi, Kirsten    , Kris Braun, Seth Ratslaf, Stacey Danckert, Ian McGregor

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