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Goddard’s Farm Allotments – Committee Meeting 7th April 2024
Present: Alice, Dave, Rod, Geoff, Lorraine.
Apologies: Lynn, Georgina, Martina and Stuart.
Minutes: Dave
1) Clean up of hut
- Cleaned up the outside of the shed and moved the glass inside to protect it from damage.
- further actions haven't been completed / need to be organised.
2) Use of hut
- Store seeds for the social seed swaps as it is dry.
- Can store pots for donation / the community need. Sort them in size order and bring them out for socials.
3) Fence outside the hut / carpark
- Proposal of new notice board for tenant information and those who are not digitally connected - passed (Geoff to action).
- Fence itself is looking a bit worse for wear, suggested to add cable ties for now to stop it flapping in the winds (Geoff to action).
4) Discord
- Dave Demoed the discord server covering the following topics:
- Individuals must register with discord and download the app to their computer and/ or mobile phone.
- You can then click the link in the minutes and it will take you to the server.
- Users must accept the rules before viewing the server.
- When the users accept the rules, they are shown a welcome message with instructions to give themselves the role of Tenant which again reminds them of the rules and what will happen if the rules are broken.
- After receiving the Tenant role, the server opens up and allows them to respond to view, chat and engage with the community.
- We can ue discord to store information, virtual bulletin board, post images, links etc
- Rules are open to change and Dave is welcoming any and all constructive feedback.
- The information is in the cloud and no local copies are created.
- Agreed to continue with close release beta.
- Next steps
- Discord Link in minutes: https://discord.gg/vzQFCwRH
- Add category for fielding questions - #commitee_feedback channel created.
AOB
- Water.
- Currently closed off - Need to message Rebecca to get an eta on works (Lorraine to action).
- Extra taps - Nick was going to add some more, message Rebecca to get an eta / query on this (Lorraine to action).
- Next Committee meeting.
- To be arranged at the next social (04/05).