Attendees:
[Someday I shall learn to announce these meetings in good time...]
Mark Walker (Local Group Coordinator)
Brian Gladman (Local Group Technical Contact)
Discussion
Website Redesign
Plans are afoot to give a bit of a makeover of the website in the coming months so get it a little more attractive looking for the student population.
Clause 152 - Justice and Coroners Bill
The outcome of all of the NO2ID local groups acting as one resulted in this dangerous piece of legislation being dropped from the Bill. No doubt another attempt will be made but we shall be ready.
Council Motion
Mention was given to the motion being passed and the possible plans to expand it to other nearby councils. Bromsgrove District for example….
See you all next month!
Attendees:
Mark Walker (Local Group Coordinator)
Brian Gladman
John Laws
Margaret Laws
Discussion
Issues associated with Clause 152 of the Justice and Coroners Bill
All of our attendees (even those attending in spirit) contacted their MP and mentioned their concern over this Bill. Shockingly none of them chose to reply. Now since I have not seen everyone elses letter I cannot hazard a guess why no reply was sent. They are supposed to reply regardless! Even so, what I do know is that I followed the previously mentioned guide to writing to your MP by the Open Rights Group to the letter.
I did get an opportunity to talk about the response I got from my local MP Dr Richard Taylor.
Council Motion Progress
Brought to the groups attention, was the progress made in getting councillors supporting an ID card motion. Wyre Forest DC’s Fran Oborski and Martin Howard; shown by their printed email dialogue got behind me on this one without hesitation. Very encouraging. A plan was discussed regarding sensitising other council members to the motion set to be tabled.
An Approach!
Our NO2ID trifolds got us in trouble… nah not really we just got some attention that we dont usually get. We were approached by someone froma nearby table. Great stuff I thought. Some of the group got a little too fired up with her questions, I was aiming to answer them calmly…but hey ho theres enough other people in Worcester to practice on!
See you all next month 
Attendees:
Mark Walker (Local Group Coordinator)
Brian Gladman
Stuart Herbert (newcomer/observer)
We did not really expect high numbers as notice of its happening were sent out at short notice and its the Christmas season.
Discussion
Plans for the Worcester Stall this coming Saturday (13th)
Going to be in front of the Guild Hall, at least two members of Birmingham NO2ID shall assist with numbers and that it was going to be happening in the Afternoon. I shall update you all with more detail shortly.
Guest/Observer introductions
Myself and Brian gave a brief rundown on the ID card issue we meet about - these included:
- Costs
- Mass Data Collection/Surveillance and the risks of that with recent Data losses.
- Storing of Biometrics despite innocence
We also gave a briefing on what the group had been doing in the last few months.
Council Motion Strategy
Largely conservative council but some seemed unconcerned/uninterested about the ID cards issue. Methods of encouraging an interest talked about. Should be able to pursue one being put through before the end of January 2009 if action is taken.
Hello Everyone,
Noticed we have been quite quiet? Yes this is very true. The injuries from my accident meant walking was a hell of a game and the last months meeting never really happened. Sad but true.
The end of the year looms but I think its perfectly worth continuing as normal with our usual group meeting. With myself being unable to hold meetings in the last few months, I intend to keep NO2ID Worcester(shire) firmly together.
There are even plans afoot to do a stall this weekend!
So as always anyone is welcome to turn up. The curious, the players of devils advocate and casual observer - all of you are welcome 
Location is the Portobello Inn at 8pm - Wednesday the 10th of December. A link to directions can be found on meetings page of the website.
See you all there!
