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

[Sharon Sommerville]

Thanks Jenn, we have a great team.



On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Jennifer Ross <2jennross at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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