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

Thu Feb 18 09:13:12 GMT 2016

Quoting Trevor
Sounds interesting!

Wondering what the workload implications are for Alt-Sheff (mainly  
Jonathan in practice I guess as we 're all so busy).

Could Regather put some worker time into Alt-Sheff so I'ts more of a  
two way partnership type thing?

Or money (which might go some way to cover web hosting costs)?

Trevor

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Quoting Jonathan
Actually I realise now that Gareth's talking about Festival Listings,  
not just Regather "A bit of backstory - historically there has not  
been a centralised online location for a community and festival  
listings ..."

Is that Sheffield Festivals Network still active? NO - the website's a  
year out of date. It was based at Regather, so maybe Gareth's trying  
to revive interest in that area; fair enough

Cheers
Jonathan

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Quoting Michael

> 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
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>>>
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>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> 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
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>>
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>>
>>
>>
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