PUN Organizing Meeting
December 14, 2020

8-9:15pm Eastern Time


Present: Matt, Jordan, Jim

Repeat Mission Statement: PUN is a digital community that helps young people pursue self-directed learning by providing resources, mentorship, events, and friendships.

• Feedback since “tidying up” the Discord channel
  

DO A POLL:  
SHOULD WE FULLY REMOVE THE ‘CATEGORY’ CHANNELS?

• EVENTS and CLUBS: Want to make an announcement?  Need support in some way?
  
  
  SUGGESTION:
  Maybe an art-related event?   Or some kind of video game tournament/event?

• Update on Board of Directors
  
  
  Kai and Jordan have accepted their offer to join the Board.JIM: Extend the invite to more people that are on Discord
  
  Proposed: Jim, Kai, Jordan + continue finding 2 more
  
  
• Report on National Youth Rights Association’s conference
  from Katherine and Kai
  
  – hold till next time
  
  
  
• Helping local groups organize – Jordan
  
  
  At the Child Friendly Community Conference, Jordan mentioned organizing a local unschoolers club.  Started organizing a face-to-face club but COVID halted it.
  
  
  
• ‘Youth on Subjects of the World’

no Neil/Dylan available, so skipped this

• Looking toward 2021
  
  
  Having PUN be a tool/platform/community that helps support forming and running local communities.
  More outreach of unschoolers helping “recruit” others who are in school.
  
  Running public speaking workshops for unschoolers,