Two dozen fellow members of the tribal community, seated in folded metal chairs, looked on.
What I wanted, the only thing I wanted, was to find some way into what I saw as "the theatrical community," a seat at the table.
Over 400 tech companies have already been enlisted in the organization, headed by Julie Samuels, which is aiming to give New York's technology community a seat at the table in discussions at the city, state and national level.
These are powerful ideals: shared harvest, fellowship, community, a seat at the table.
Whites and Asian Americans are the primary competitors to one another, and within each community, for seats at top-ranked schools.
On 9 December 2008, Jimmy Wales, who holds the board-appointed "community founder" seat on the Wikimedia Board of Trustees, told the UK's Channel 4 News that he had briefly considered legal action.
We've seen it so often, the faces of shocked and battered survivors, grieving families and a heartbroken community suddenly seated beside Senators and members of Congress and the President and First Lady, together mourning some unimaginable occurance under the glare of the worldwide press.
When elections were held in Bosnia and Herzegovina in December, new parties representing the three national communities gained seats in rough proportion to their populations.
In 1660 the community became the seat of the government of the southern captaincies (Portuguese administrative units) of Brazil.
