Hey Montreal folks I'll dig up the Winnipeg B!B!notes and financials for y'all. It's all in a shared Google drive. Lots there to chew on, including a month by month to-do list. Sorry it's taken a while. Feel free to email me off list if you'd like to arrange a time to have a chat on the phone. I'm happy to answer any of your B!B! organizing questions. Cheers, Geoff
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up-to-date financial cues (martin_labrosse.gabriel@courrier.uqam.ca) 2. Re: Organizing a Bike!Bike! : organisational guidelines and up-to-date financial cues (Ainsley Naylor) 3. Re: Organizing a Bike!Bike! : organisational guidelines and up-to-date financial cues (cyclista@inventati.org) 4. Re: Organizing a Bike!Bike! : organisational guidelines and up-to-date financial cues (wormsign@gmail.com) 5. When is Bike!?Bike!? (bikebikesmtx2025@gmail.com) 6. Re: When is Bike!?Bike!? (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: martin_labrosse.gabriel@courrier.uqam.ca To: thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Cc: Bcc: Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 19:34:15 -0000 Subject: [TheThinkTank] Re: Organizing a Bike!Bike! : organisational guidelines and up-to-date financial cues Thanks for your answers!
Any chance getting your hands on the Toronto, Winipeg and LA documents?
If we want to organise on a function-comitee base, would these 6 comitees cover all to your organizers' idea of a B!B! organization? 1-General coordination 2- Program - workshops and stuff 3-Housing 4-Food 5-Bike fleet 6-Social/party/postB!B! trip
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ainsley Naylor needleandthread@gmail.com To: The Think Tank thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Cc: martin_labrosse.gabriel@courrier.uqam.ca Bcc: Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 15:20:45 -0500 Subject: [TheThinkTank] Re: Organizing a Bike!Bike! : organisational guidelines and up-to-date financial cues Hey, thanks for the reminder and bump on this thread.
I appreciate Enzo's point about consent and information sharing, but at the same time I think Bike!Bike! organizers have a responsibility to be transparent and accountable to the community, and the financials should be accessible, along with other useful documents that could help anyone interested to understand how these events are organized (including problems and roadblocks that some orgs face in the process).
Perhaps we can work towards a standard of how this information and documents can be shared and accessible moving forward, including certain information that should be accessible to future hosts.
I will say that we hosted so long ago in Toronto that the numbers are laughable (I think we spent a total of like $2,000, including $1,000 on food?) but I will look for our budget from hosting the regional conference in 2019.
In regards to breakdown for committees, you're pretty much spot on but you may want to have another group for communications. While each registration element will likely need a main comms person (housing, workshop organizing, bike lending), you may want someone who is bottomlining your outreach, invitations, website copy, welcome package content including a map, + translation elements. This may include a web-person, or you may need a whole web/mobile team, especially if a lot of the comms stuff is going digital and we will be livestreaming workshops etc. ....
My 2-cents :)
Ainsley.
On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM martin_labrosse.gabriel--- via TheThinkTank thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org wrote:
Thanks for your answers!
Any chance getting your hands on the Toronto, Winipeg and LA documents?
If we want to organise on a function-comitee base, would these 6 comitees cover all to your organizers' idea of a B!B! organization? 1-General coordination 2- Program - workshops and stuff 3-Housing 4-Food 5-Bike fleet 6-Social/party/postB!B! trip _______________________________________________ TheThinkTank mailing list -- thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org To unsubscribe send an email to thethinktank-leave@lists.bikecollectives.org To view this discussion on the web visit https://lists.bikecollectives.org/hyperkitty/list/thethinktank@lists.bikecol...
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: cyclista@inventati.org To: thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Cc: Bcc: Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:02:02 +0000 Subject: [TheThinkTank] Re: Organizing a Bike!Bike! : organisational guidelines and up-to-date financial cues Still lurking here, just don't have much bandwidth.
I think Ainsley's thinking above re: transparency is right.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: wormsign@gmail.com To: The Think Tank thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Cc: Bcc: Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:28:49 -0800 Subject: [TheThinkTank] Re: Organizing a Bike!Bike! : organisational guidelines and up-to-date financial cues To clarify, I think the documents should be made available but I’d prefer someone from that bike bike be the one to share them. I’ll be sharing any that I find from LA bike bike (I’m still hunting them down. It was a bit of a hectic time and record keeping wasn’t the top priority for everyone but they should exist.)
Loconte
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Still lurking here, just don't have much bandwidth.
I think Ainsley's thinking above re: transparency is right. _______________________________________________ TheThinkTank mailing list -- thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org To unsubscribe send an email to
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: bikebikesmtx2025@gmail.com To: thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Cc: Bcc: Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 01:14:02 -0000 Subject: [TheThinkTank] When is Bike!?Bike!? I've had a few folks in the community reach out to me over the past few weeks asking about when Bike!Bike! Is this year and I've got nothing to tell them and that doesn't sit right with me. I checked the Facebook page the Bike!Bike! Website and here on this thinktank but there's only been one post (a post I'm incredibly excited by) in the month and a half plus since the meeting. I know a some people myself included need to request off well in advance if they want to make it or time to budget save and plan. Is there somewhere else I should be looking for an official announcement? Does anybody have any information? Let me know!
En las últimas semanas, algunas personas de la comunidad se han comunicado conmigo para preguntarme cuándo se celebrará Bike!Bike! este año, pero no tengo nada que decirles y eso no me parece bien. Revisé la página de Facebook, el sitio web de Bike!Bike! y aquí, en este grupo de expertos, pero solo ha habido una publicación (una publicación que me entusiasma muchísimo) en el mes y medio que ha pasado desde la reunión. Sé que algunas personas, incluido yo mismo, deben solicitar una cita con bastante anticipación si quieren asistir o si necesitan tiempo para ahorrar y planificar. ¿Hay algún otro lugar donde deba buscar un anuncio oficial? ¿Alguien tiene alguna información? ¡Avísenme!
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jonathan Rosenbaum bike@bikelover.org To: The Think Tank thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Cc: bikebikesmtx2025@gmail.com Bcc: Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 14:08:00 -0500 Subject: [TheThinkTank] Re: When is Bike!?Bike!? Hola,
La fecha, agosto de 2025, se discute en las notas https://pad.riseup.net/p/Notas_asamblea_BB2025.Hubo una conversación interesante sobre la elección de agosto aquí:
https://lists.bikecollectives.org/hyperkitty/list/thethinktank@lists.bikecol... .
Saludos, Jonathan
Hi, the date, August, 2025, is discussed in the notes https://pad.riseup.net/p/Notas_asamblea_BB2025 . There was an interesting conversation about choosing August here:
https://lists.bikecollectives.org/hyperkitty/list/thethinktank@lists.bikecol...
Best, Jonathan
On 2025-02-26 20:14, bikebikesmtx2025--- via TheThinkTank wrote:
I've had a few folks in the community reach out to me over the past few weeks asking about when Bike!Bike! Is this year and I've got nothing to tell them and that doesn't sit right with me. I checked the Facebook page the Bike!Bike! Website and here on this thinktank but there's only been one post (a post I'm incredibly excited by) in the month and a half plus since the meeting. I know a some people myself included need to request off well in advance if they want to make it or time to budget save and plan. Is there somewhere else I should be looking for an official announcement? Does anybody have any information? Let me know!
En las últimas semanas, algunas personas de la comunidad se han comunicado conmigo para preguntarme cuándo se celebrará Bike!Bike! este año, pero no tengo nada que decirles y eso no me parece bien. Revisé la página de Facebook, el sitio web de Bike!Bike! y aquí, en este grupo de expertos, pero solo ha habido una publicación (una publicación que me entusiasma muchísimo) en el mes y medio que ha pasado desde la reunión. Sé que algunas personas, incluido yo mismo, deben solicitar una cita con bastante anticipación si quieren asistir o si necesitan tiempo para ahorrar y planificar. ¿Hay algún otro lugar donde deba buscar un anuncio oficial? ¿Alguien tiene alguna información? ¡Avísenme! _______________________________________________ TheThinkTank mailing list -- thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org To unsubscribe send an email to thethinktank-leave@lists.bikecollectives.org To view this discussion on the web visit
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