[fvc-wat-disc] Meeting on PR presentation, all welcome

[Jennifer Ross]

Sounds REALLY good, everyone!  Great plan, good luck with it.

Jenn

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:

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> I've contacted Kelly Carmichael and Anita Nickerson about re-using the
> graphics from the Dennis Pilon videos. Anita says we're free to use
> any FVC material, and there may be other material for us to use that I
> wasn't aware of.  I'll post anything receive on the web site.
>
> - --Bob.
>
>
> On 01/12/15 03:12 PM, Bob Jonkman wrote:
> > Hi everyone: We had a successful meeting of the Presentation
> > Working Group yesterday. Sean Haberlin took the following notes --
> > thanx Sean!
> >
> >
> > == Purpose of the meeting to design a new presentation ==
> >
> > * Context, within the next 18 months, Parliamentary committee on
> > Democratic reform will examine two different electoral system
> > Proportional Representation (PR) and Alternative Vote (AV)
> >
> > * Goal of presentation is to promote PR - Tenor of presentation -
> > sell PR or educate about PR , no consensus on tenor
> >
> > * Assume 15 minutes for presentation
> >
> > * Two topics - PR (13 mins) broken down into i. STV ii. MMP - AV -
> > 2 minutes
> >
> > * Each slide should consist of no more than 5 bullets, no more than
> > 5 words per bullet
> >
> > * Graphs, tables and other forms of graphics used where appropriate
> > to illustrate and simplify data presentation.
> >
> > * Thematic integrity, each slide uses same font, background and
> > etc.... Links to content outside of presentation should mirror and
> > expand on content of presentation. For example, MMP and STV,
> > should not lead to links about Jenkins or Dion's P3. Rather, they
> > should expand on MMP and STV
> >
> > * Slide content ideas - Slide showing 85 OECD use PR, 5 use First
> > Past the Post (FPTP), 2 use AV - Challenging Statements must not
> > undermine the credibility of presentation (eg. More women and
> > minorities in PR as one point of many points - challenging, on its
> > own slide with empirical examples - credible). Pay attention how
> > content may challenge assumptions of audience and be ready backup
> > your challenge. - 2nd last slide - AV - Last slide - link to a link
> > page for further research
> >
> > * Structure of slide presentation based on values or mechanism of
> > voting?
> >
> > * Must recognize a winner take all bias on part of Canadian
> > audience vs proportional, are elections about win/lose or about
> > representation?
> >
> >
> > == Action Items ==
> >
> > * Gord - create world map slide illustrating 85 countries in OECD
> > has PR and 2 have AV
> >
> > * Byron - create slide presentation on value structure, others to
> > send content ideas to Byron
> >
> > * Bob - get permission to use Fair Canada material, especially
> > Pillon videos
> >
> > * Sean - create notes of meeting
> >
> > * Sharon - co-ordinate efforts
> >
> > == Next Meeting == Thursday, Dec. 10th at 10:30 at Sharon's house.
> >
> >
> > On 27/11/15 03:10 PM, Sharon Sommerville wrote:
> >> Hello everyone,
> >
> >> We are planning on having a presentable PR presentation ready to
> >> view for the Dec. 28th discussion night. Feedback from the
> >> meeting on the 28th would help develop the final version of the
> >> presentation.
> >
> >> We will meet at my home on Monday, November 30th at 2 pm.to
> >> start drafting the presentation.  Everyone is welcome.  My
> >> address is 85 Westmount Road South in Waterloo on the SW corner
> >> of Douglas and Westmount.  The driveway and additional parking is
> >> on Douglas.
> >
> >> Please join us if you can.
> >
> >> Best regards, Sharon
> >
> >
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