2008/5/12 Geoffrey Plourde geo.plrd@yahoo.com:
A stupid question deserves a stupid answer. That paradox will be addressed by periodically revisiting the charter.
The paradox isn't that the community changes, that was a separate point. The paradox is that the whole point of an assembly is to deal with the problem of the community being too large to make coherent decisions, so requiring the community to decide upon a charter before the assembly can start isn't going to work.