Dear balers,
I wish everybody, that your dreams become true in the
year of 2011. Even the wildest ones, you wish...so be
careful with what you wish for...
We entered 2011, which means the impatient of us are
already counting down to the European Straw Bale Gathering
in Bouzov Podoli, Czech Republic.
So I would like to share some information and issues with
you:
1/ We areÂsorry, but it seems to us, that we did not
expressed clearly enough that the issue about only 5
participants per country is simply ourÂsuggestionÂand
we would very much like to hear YOUR view.ÂÂI think those of
you who refrained from fillingÂthe
questionaireÂas you didn't believe you would be able
to come, are in effect doing yourself a misfortune.
The
current surveyÂresult about this issue is:
13 answers ÂÂ 42%ÂWe simply do a 'first come, first
serve' base, as all other ESBG's. When it's sold out, it's
sold out.
10 answers ÂÂ 32%ÂParticipants apply centrally to us, we
sort them according to nations and amount of tickets and
ask national participants to sort it out between
themselves?
9 answers   Â29%ÂThe National Networker/organisation
gets to choose.
8 answers   Â26%ÂOther.
6 answers   Â19%ÂAn international committee gets formed
and chose the participants? Â Â Â Â
We'll closeÂthe
surveyÂon January 20th, as we have a team meeting on
the 22nd. We would very much appreciate your views, so
pleaseÂfill
it in. And we like to make you aware that upon
registration we will ask you to fill out another quick
survey, so we're getting even closer to customizing ESBG
2011 to your needs. It is definitely worth the 5 minutes of
your lives.
+Remember the bonus of filling out the survey: You will
get a good insight in the current lay-out of the programÂ
2/ÂIf I understood well the Survey results, so far we
have workshops with facilitators for subject of lime
plastering, wood construction details, SB building
approaches, outside gypsum plaster, Âclay plastering,
load-bearing construction, handling and resizing the straw
bales.
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I hereby loudly call for skillful facilitators for any
interesting workshops of different available subjects. Our
arms are open for you, please send the ideas and offers.
Maybe someone for: exterior SB insulation of an old
building, passive house SB detailing, fine plasters,
colours and reliefs..... etc.
3/ÂAlso we would welcome some offers of conference
presenters of more different topics.
Maybe someone of you is interested in presenting the
Leonardo SB education project?
Maybe someone knows about some other significant research
or topic???
4/ÂTransportation issue:
Currently we have people interested in arranging busses
going from South (Slovenia), West (France), and from North
(so far only from Poland; which is too close to fill a
bus);Â
Anyone from further North, South and East???
5/ ÂPartners in fund raising:
Good news; 7 people is interested in being partners in a
'Youth in Action' program for a 2 day seminar which we could
arrange within the ESBG, and this way help secure some
funding, to make the ESBG cheaper for all, and in particular
to give some scholarships.
Not so good news: Before it's worth doing, we would need
more people who at times work in the field of 'Youth
Educator' to sign up as a partner for such an application;
so we need about 25 more. All it takes is a one page
partnership form to be posted to us before January 24 th.
Contact us on esbgteam@gmail...
for more information.
So much so far,
please let me know if you have something to share with
us.Â
Yours,
Fano