[Alt-sheff-organising-group] Re Alt Sheff and Regather/ Community Festival Listings

[Michael Cook]

I don't want to be 'that guy', but .. what's in it for us?

What I mean to say is that Regather is clearly a funded group, with their
own professionally made website; so what would be the impetus for us to
work toward creating a section on our site listing their events?

Not intending to be negative here but it's worth considering that the
benefit could well be very one-way: for example, it would certainly
increase traffic to their site and increase their (not exactly cheap) sales
of kitchen/venue/conference room hire etc.

Michael.

On 17 February 2016 at 10:36, Jonathan <jonathan at beighton72.freeserve.co.uk>
wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> We've had a proposal to discuss hosting a full listing of community
> events and festivals - maybe with a dedicated page, for Regather (www.
> regather.net)
>
> Regather is a great organisation and it would be good to help, but it
> depends on how, and how much work! Would anyone like to join in the
> discussion, please?
>
> Gareth is happy to have a meeting about it, Andy has said he would come
> along to that, if one or two others could also come that would be great.
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: All Sheff Community Festival Listings
> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 09:21:08 +0000
> From: Gareth Roberts <gareth.roberts at regather.net>
> <gareth.roberts at regather.net>
> To: Jonathan Cook <jonathan at beighton72.freeserve.co.uk>
> <jonathan at beighton72.freeserve.co.uk>
>
> OK happy to meet. Generally speaking I'm at Regather Mon - Sat, 9am-6pm
> except Mon, Tues and Sat afternoons when I finish early at @ 2pm. I can
> also do Mon and Tues evenings with sufficient notice. Happy to meet at
> Regather, or come somewhere else if that's better for you.
>
> It would be good to get an initial dialogue on the proposal going via
> email, so we're not coming to it cold at the meeting - I'm happy for you to
> forward my previous email if that helps.
>
> A bit of backstory - historically there has not been a centralised online
> location for a community and festival listings. Welcome to Sheffield, Our
> Fave Places and the Sheffield Directory all have had bits of info over the
> years, but it's been piecemeal and inconsistent. The thinking is that Alt
> Sheff already has an event listings and has the right ethos, so it would
> simply (!?) be a case of promoting the site to community and festival
> organisers, and then if possible tweak the site to present that info in a
> more focused manner.
>
> Thanks, Gareth
>
> On 17 February 2016 at 08:54, Jonathan <
> jonathan at beighton72.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> OK Gareth, thanks for the reply.
>>
>> We always make decisions on changes by whole group consensus, so my
>> thought was to bring one or two others along to meet, then we'd put it to
>> our group. Usually we find that a (small) group meeting produces better
>> solutions than the first suggestions (usually from one person ... usually
>> me!!)
>>
>> I appreciate that you're *really* busy, but if we could fix a time for a
>> really concentrated meeting, perhaps 30/45 minutes? we could work out
>> what's going to be most workable and mutually beneficial?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jonathan
>>
>> On 16/02/16 10:57, Gareth Roberts wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jonathan,
>>
>> Happy to meet up if needed. Might be worth chatting over email to start
>> with maybe? Having looked at the site my initial suggestion would be a
>> 'community events and festivals' page that displays a sub-set of listed
>> events based on a tag or something similar. Is this doable? Thoughts
>> welcome of course...
>>
>> Thanks, Gareth
>>
>> On 15 February 2016 at 11:11, Jonathan <
>> jonathan at beighton72.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> I haven't forgotten about this Gareth, and I'm a *bit* less busy now.
>>>
>>> Would you like to suggest place/time(s) to meet and see if we can help?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jonathan
>>>
>>>
>>> On 01/02/16 10:46, Gareth Roberts wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Jonathan,
>>>>
>>>> Would Alt Sheff be up for hosting a full listing of community events
>>>> and festivals - maybe with a dedicated page? Would be good to have a chat
>>>> about it.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers, Gareth
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Gareth Roberts
>> Operations Manager
>> 07939577467 | 0114 2731258 <0114%202731258>
>>
>> Regather Works 57-59 Club Garden Road, Sheffield, S11 8BU
>>
>> www.regather.net
>> Email Newsletter <http://www.regather.net/about-us/stay-in-touch> |
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>>
>> Regather Co-Op (30949R) | Regather Charity (1159236)
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Gareth Roberts
> Operations Manager
> 07939577467 | 0114 2731258
>
> Regather Works 57-59 Club Garden Road, Sheffield, S11 8BU
>
> www.regather.net
> Email Newsletter <http://www.regather.net/about-us/stay-in-touch> |
> Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/regather> | Twitter
> <http://www.twitter.com/RegatherWorks> | Instagram
> <http://www.instagram.com/reggieregather>
>
> Regather Co-Op (30949R) | Regather Charity (1159236)
>
>
>
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