questions from this mornings brainstorm:

What groups and communities are there in Gouda?

There are a couple of groups we already know about.
Choirs
Knitters, Crafters
Theatre people (Piotr mentioned Martin in the chat)
Soccer teams, sports
Immigrants, large group of Moroccan immigrants
Over 35's
Bands

What are the groups that we don't know about yet? Are there any squatters? Who's behind the 'Gonz'? What do we know about the immigrants in Gouda?

What initiatives already exist?
There are already at least some initiatives in Gouda. What are they?
Nancy and Mirella are researching this.

What do the communities need?
As the 'girl with the guitar' mentioned teenagers need a place to meet. Are there really no places for them to meet?

'People want cheap food and entertainment'

What experiences can we provide? What are our desires? What would we like to offer?
Workshops
Meeting places
Squatted houses with virtual links between them.
Events, performances
Gaming
Festival

There are much more ideas in the chat.

What spaces can we provide/use?
Some of the places where we might provide meeting points or stage events are:
market
in the streets
squatted houses
the public bath -> who runs the public bath and who visits it?
art centre
cafes

Institutions
We shouldn't view the current roles of the institutions as a given.
The library already has some external activities like a book bus in immigrant neighbourhoods and delivery of books to the elderly.
The library had a collection of Arabic children's books. The immigrant community are mostly Berber's(?) and can't read these.
How can we involve the institutions in our current plans?

[written up by vincent]