Meg M., chairwoman of the board of trustees, related that the fellowship is party to a lawsuit seeking damages because an intergroup had used a copyrighted image on its website. She asked that all service bodies review their websites to guard against further such trouble.
If you have an role for your service body’s website, or know who is, please spread this word.
OA’s board of trustees has issued what it calls a significant new policy regarding whether meetings should allow minors to attend face to face, online, telephone, or non-real-time meetings. As you know, OA is a bottom-up organization, and no trusted servants govern OA, so this question remains with each local meeting. The board said, “the…
Two proposals addressed how and when the World Service Business Conference would meet, and the reference subcommittee combined them into a single motion. It would call for a two-year rotation in which one year would meet in person, and the other would meet via a videoconferencing platform. In the latter case, the Trustees would have…
Lifeline: Stories of Recovery is seeking submissions — in writing, as an illustration, or in video —on the topic of staying abstinent through the holidays. Here are some proposed ideas, offered in OA’s announcement: Stories will be published Dec. 1, but your creative work must be submitted by Oct. 31. Use this form to send yours…
It’s been a very long time since we all got together — 2016 in Boston! (Pandemic, don’t you know?) But it’s happening next summer.
A proposal submitted by the National Service Board of Greece asked that no conferences be scheduled three days before or three days after major religious holidays. Their recent experience was that the start of the conference overlapped Easter Monday for those following the Christian Orthodox religion, and they need more time to get here than…
One 7th Tradition was taken Friday afternoon for the entire conference. Delegates donated $9,411 in USD, and $20 AUS. Based on the din that greeted the announcement, delegates were impressed by the figure.