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+7vt/Reopening = https://markup.co.uk/hg/7vtr

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+27cd1a94580fc31b6f7ceb020fc78a4916c488b5 7vt/Reopening

--- a/7vt/Reopening/notes.txt	Sat Apr 10 10:23:19 2021 +0100
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@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
-Trial of odoo now running at
-  http://markup.co.uk:8069/event
-
-website menu field is for individual event page...
-
-No obvious support for a recurring event
-
-Edit this
-   /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/odoo/addons/website_event/views/event_templates.xml
-to e.g. change 'Register' to 'Request place(s)'
-
-Hmm.  Message goes to registrant, but not to admin...
-
-Need to find sources...
-What would it take to do a priority-to-newcomers queuing system for
-7vt MfW?
- 1) Database with tables
-      a) adult, with id, name, email (key), household (fk), headOfHousehold (bool)
-      b) household, with id, num adults, num children
-      c) child, with id, name (key1), parent1 (fk), parent2 (fk), household (key2)
-      d) meeting, with id, date, start, end
-      e) roomUse, with id, event (fk), room, numAvail (int), numHeldBack (int)
-      f) request, with id, event (fk), household (fk), numAdults, allOrNone (bool), numChildren, timestamp
-      g) booking, with id, request (fk), room (fk), accepted (int), turnedUp (int)
- 2) Actions/forms
-      a) Register a household
-      b) Edit a household
-      c) Request a booking
-      d) Show requests/bookings (with expected status for requests,
-                                 e.g. currently nth of m for room
-      e) Cancel a request/booking
-      f) Make bookings and notify head of household for all requests,
-            including position on waiting list if not accepted w/o
-            qualification
-      g) Notify new winner(s), new waiting list positions, on cancellation
-
-Doesn't as proposed allow for different categories of children,
-i.e. this really only works for meeting room use for All Age, not
-breakout rooms yet.
-
-Do we want to require an acknowledgement?
-
-Waiting list are allowed to turn up, possibly be admitted at 10 past
-to empty places from heldBack and no-shows.
-
-Priority based on
- 1) inverse number of previous attendances
-    a) with no-shows counting double?
-    b) with some relief depending on how long ago?
- 2) time of request
-
-I.e. compute a score based on previous attendance, then sort by that
-score, lowest first, and within requests with the same scores, by
-request time, fill room(s) from the top down.  If adding a
-larger-than-one household won't fit, if no children and not allOrNone,
-accept as many adults as possible.  If there's another room, move
-remnant if any there, otherwise move to waiting list, along with
-everyone thereafter, in order.
-
-No groups including children on waiting list?

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+Maud x ... reported on a brilliant set of plans coming from a new
+project at Woodbrooke called "Climate crisis: spiritual nuture and
+learning" which has a wealth of suggestions for concrete action.
+[Ref. item MfS 2020 10 06b]
+
+
+
+... Hanks (Economic ... and sustainability work) reported on plans for
+COPS 26.  Three people (2.2 FTE).  "Build Back Better".  Building a
+network of Friends working towards ... wrt COP26.  Quaker Faith in
+Action e-newsletter Una Ryder, Activism Support Coordinator.
+
+QPSW strategy Geoff Beattie co-clerk
+"Principles" document: "Nearly there" for new strategy 2020-2025
+  Peaceful and sustainable future...
+  Doing more on less
+
+Review of Quaker Stewardship Committee
+
+Big change: QSC, which was established nearly 20 years ago to oversee
+Trustees' responsibility for compliance with Charity regulations, both
+at YM and AM levels, is to be laid down, and their responsiblities
+transfered to QLCC and MfS.
+
+----
+?
+----
+
+BoDRC interim report
+
+Still mostly foundation-laying
+
+Seven themes emerging
+– Spirituality, worship and discernment
+– individually and collectively with God 
+• Quaker community – life in our meetings 
+• Testimony and faith in action – in the world 
+• Stages of personal life journeys and close relationships 
+• Church government – how we organise ourselves 
+• Our story – where we have come from and where we are going 
+• Advices & Queries
+
+5 key insights:
+
+1. We can all have direct access to God/Spirit/ the Divine. This
+   experience / encounter /relationship can transform us.
+
+2. We live under guidance from God/Spirit/ the Light/ the promptings
+   of love and truth in our hearts
+
+3. We recognise and seek to address that of God in each human being –
+   each of us is unique and precious
+
+4. There is a dynamic Spirit bringing continuing revelation
+
+5. We hold the whole of life sacramental and so we do not divide the
+   sacred and the secular
+
+---
+This is the webpage 
+https://www.quaker.org.uk/resources/quaker-faith-and-practice/revising-quaker-faith-practice
+ which gives details of how to be in touch with the committee, including a link to the collection tool where ideas (both general and specific text) can be offered.
+
+
+Nominations suggestions: nominations@quaker.org.uk
+

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+*Meeting for Sufferings*
+
+2--4 October 2020
+
+Henry S. Thompson, SE Scotland AM representative
+
+All the papers for the meeting are available online at
+
+  https://www.quaker.org.uk/documents/mfs-2020-10-agendapapersv2-1
+
+The minutes and other follow-up material are available from
+
+  https://quaker.org.uk/documents/mfs-2020-10-follow-up-package
+
+This would normally have been a weekend-long residential meeting at
+Woodbrooke, and it was very frustrating to miss the opportunity to
+spend _informal_ time together.
+
+We did meet online from Friday evening through early Sunday afternoon.
+My report below covers only some of the sessions, and I refer Friends
+to the links above for topics not covered, marked with an asterisk
+below.  The bracketed string in each case gives the item number which
+can be used to find relevant material in both the papers in advance
+and the follow-up package.
+
+*Session list*
+
+  Sustainability and the Climate Crisis [MfS 2020 10 06]
+
+   - Report from the Sustainability Monitoring Group *
+   - Update on the project: ‘Climate crisis: spiritual nurture and
+     learning’
+   - Preparations for COP26
+
+  BYM Trustees [MfS 2020 10 08]
+
+  Responding to racism [MfS 2020 10 09] *
+
+  Review of Quaker Stewardship Committee [MfS 2020 10 10]
+
+  Quaker Recognised Bodies [MfS 2020 10 11] *
+
+  Annual report from Quaker Committee for [MfS 2020 10 12]
+
+  Update on minutes received by Meeting for Sufferings [MfS 2020 10 13] *
+
+  Report from the Book of Discipline Revision Committee [MfS 2020 10 14]
+
+  Yearly Meeting 2020 MfS [2020 10 15]
+
+*Update on the project: ‘Climate crisis: spiritual nurture and learning’*
+
+Maud Grainger, Woodbrooke's Faith in Action Programme Coordinator,
+introduced the work of this new project.  Its three main aims
+are
+
+  1. Supporting Friends to explore, understand and become more
+     confident in articulating the spiritual underpinning of Quaker
+     commitment to caring for the earth and creation."
+
+  2. Providing advice, guidance support and encouragement to enable
+     Friends to make practical changes to individual lifestyles and to
+     take community-level action, particularly around the use and
+     management of property.
+
+  3. Building community to support and strengthen our individual and
+     corporate response.
+
+Maud described a brilliant set of plans for achieving this goal,
+including a wealth of suggestions for concrete action.
+Woodbrooke's web page for this work is here:
+
+  https://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/learn/climate-crisis/
+
+but there's more detail in the papers in advance than there is there
+at the moment.
+
+*Sustainability*
+
+Livvy Hanks, Britain Yearly Meeting’s Programme Manager for Economics and
+Sustainability Project Development and Programmes, reported on plans
+for BYM involvement in COPS 26 in Glasgow.  The QPSW item in the
+papers in advance gives lots of detail on how Friends can get involved
+in our input to COPS 26.
+
+Quaker Peace and Social Witness (QPSW) have also launched the *Build
+Back Better* campaign "for a green and just recovery from the
+pandemic", appointing three people to work on this.
+
+The *Quaker Faith in Action newsletter* (back copies available at 
+https://us7.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=7506c29d95944ba554b4871f8&id=b525b532da)
+contains information about both of the above.
+
+*Review of Quaker Stewardship Committee (QSC)*
+
+A big change is coming: QSC, which was established nearly 20 years ago
+to oversee Trustees' responsibility for compliance with Charity
+regulations, both at Yearly and Area Meeting levels, is to be laid
+down, and their responsiblities transfered to Quaker Life Central
+Committee and Meeting for Sufferings.
+
+Lots of details on how this will work in practice remain to be worked
+out...
+
+Book of Discipline Review Committee interim report*
+
+The co-Clerks, Catherine Brewer andRosie Carnall, gave an encouraging
+report on the committee's work to date.  Although the group is still
+mostly getting to know each other, working out procedures and
+generally laying the foundations for the effort ahead, the co-Clerks
+were able to share some of the early results:
+
+Seven key themes are emerging:
+
+ * Spirituality, worship and discernment
+ * individually and collectively with God 
+ * Quaker community --- life in our meetings 
+ * Testimony and faith in action --- in the world 
+ * Stages of personal life journeys and close relationships 
+ * Church government --- how we organise ourselves 
+ * Our story --- where we have come from and where we are going 
+ * Advices & Queries
+
+Along with five key insights:
+
+1. We can all have direct access to God/Spirit/the Divine. This
+   experience/encounter/relationship can transform us.
+
+2. We live under guidance from God/Spirit/the Light/the promptings
+   of love and truth in our hearts
+
+3. We recognise and seek to address that of God in each human being ---
+   each of us is unique and precious
+
+4. There is a dynamic Spirit bringing continuing revelation
+
+5. We hold the whole of life sacramental and so we do not divide the
+   sacred and the secular
+
+There is a webpage 
+
+https://www.quaker.org.uk/resources/quaker-faith-and-practice/revising-quaker-faith-practice
+
+which gives details of how to be in touch with the committee,
+including a link to the collection tool where ideas (both general and
+specific text) can be offered.
+
+Several vacancies have arisen, and nominations suggestions (of others,
+or oneself) are invited to be sent to nominations@quaker.org.uk
+
+The committee is planning to coordinate an activity at Yearly Meeting
+Gathering in Bath: *Open to New Light - an invitation from BYM's Book
+of Discipline Revision Committee*.  There is a website where
+contributions can already be made: https://padlet.com/bdrc/OpenToNewLight
+

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+*Report from the RC on tabular statement*
+
+All data is pre-pandemic...
+
+Graph of the whole trajectory of membership
+Down by more than half by our peak in the mid-20th century, 12.5K in
+2019.
+
+Net loss of 200 members for the year, to a total of 12,498.
+
+470 local meetings, so
+
+One new member net in every local meeting next year would stop the fall.
+
+Since 2009:
+  22% of local meetings have grown by 10% or more 
+  54% of local meetings have shrunk by 10% or more
+
+10% of our Meetings have over 50 members , and account for about 1/3
+of our membership
+
+Small meetings are more likely to be growing than large meetings
+
+More than half the meetings which are losing membership are largish --
+20+ members
+
+The national patterns are often seen within individual Area Meetings
+[true for SESAM, I think]
+
+"One in 20 Quakers have to be a Treasurer"
+
+See Tabular Statement summary at https://quaker-prod.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/store/5b7910074687ac2797f82da7f1305c9a9eab9866a3fbea89f3fc47f35d5e
+
+However, don't forget "regression to the mean"
+
+Effect of GDPR-induced culling?  SESAM shows _twice_ as many
+'terminations' as deaths between 2009 and 2019, in big contrast to the
+other Scottish AMs.  BYM numbers are 50% more deaths than
+terminations.
+
+*Trustees*
+
+35 voluntary redundancies, result no non-voluntary were needed.  The
+vast majority were from the Quiet Company, which has been hard-hit.
+
+*Reflections on the past year*
+
+There's a website at FWCC that offers online Meetings for Worship
+around the world, mostly but not entirely from Europe and the US:
+
+  http://fwcc.world/kinds-of-friends/online-worship
+
+Quaker Stewardship C'ttee Training hosting a Blended Meeting
+discussion for AM Trustees on Thursday.

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+*Meeting for Sufferings*
+
+6 February 2021
+
+Henry S. Thompson, SE Scotland AM representative
+
+All the papers for the meeting are available online at
+
+  https://www.quaker.org.uk/documents/mfs-2021-02-agenda--papers-package
+
+The minutes and other follow-up material are available from
+
+  https://www.quaker.org.uk/documents/meeting-for-sufferings-minutes-follow-up-2021-02
+
+*Report by the Recording Clerk on tabular statement for 2019*
+
+Paul Parker gave an excellent illustrated presentation on the changes
+for Britain Yearly Meeting in the numbers of members, attenders, etc.
+
+It's worth noting that the data reported on is all pre-pandemic...
+
+He started with a graph of the whole trajectory of membership from the
+late 19th century onward. This showed that we are down by more than half
+from our peak in the mid-20th century, to 12,498 in 2019.
+
+There was a net loss of 200 members for the year.
+
+There are 70 Area Meetings, made up of 470 Local Meetings, so one new
+member net in every local meeting next year would stop the fall.
+
+Since 2009:
+  22% of Local Meetings have grown by 10% or more 
+  54% of Local Meetings have shrunk by 10% or more
+
+10% of our Meetings have over 50 members, and account for about 1/3 of
+our membership.
+
+Small meetings are more likely to be growing than large meetings.
+
+More than half the meetings which are losing membership are largish,
+that is, with 20 or more members.
+
+The national patterns are often seen within individual Area Meetings
+[true for SESAM, I think]
+
+Paul pointed out that a simple consequence of the numbers is that
+approximately "One in 20 Quakers has to be a Treasurer".
+
+If you're interested in reviewing the numbers yourself, they're online
+in the Tabular Statement summary at
+https://www.quaker.org.uk/documents/tabular-statement-2019-for-ym-2020,
+which also includes one of the graphs from the Recording Clerk's
+presentation to Sufferings, which is not available online (yet, it is promised).
+His commentary for his presentation at Yearly Meeting in December
+2020 _is_ available online:
+https://www.quaker.org.uk/documents/tabular-statement-plain-text
+
+There was some comment on the likely effect of GDPR-induced culling,
+which our Area Meeting certainly experienced.  I noted that we show
+_twice_ as many 'terminations' as deaths between 2009 and 2019, in big
+contrast to the other Scottish AMs.  BYM itself shows 50% _more_
+deaths than terminations.
+
+*Report from Trustees*
+
+The financial situation is not great, but we're not in serious trouble
+yet.  There were 35 voluntary redundancies, with the result that no
+non-voluntary redundancies were needed.  The vast majority were from
+the Quiet Company, which has been hard-hit.
+
+*Reflections on the past year*
+
+We spent time in small groups sharing our Meetings' experiences since
+March, drawing some comfort in hearing that most Meetings seem to be
+coping, and have coped in similar kinds of successful and
+not-so-successful ways.
+
+There's a website at FWCC that offers online Meetings for Worship
+around the world, mostly but not entirely from Europe and the US:
+
+  http://fwcc.world/kinds-of-friends/online-worship
+
+