[Foundation-l] Community Assembly

[Andrew Gray]

2008/5/13 Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd at yahoo.com>:
> Well is there sufficent support for a Declaration that the Community
> wants governance?

Defining what "governance" is would be a start, and what extent it
needs to go to, and to what extent it's happening already, before we
can claim the community wants anything!

The original proposal here, as Thomas pointed out, seems to be that we
will have some kind of deliberative body, made up of anyone who cares
enough to come along and discuss things, and it will break down into
self-collecting groups made up of people interested in specific
things, and these groups will attempt to gain consensus.

But! The current community governance is basically "a bunch of people
- anyone who cares, really - start arguing about the particular bits
they're interested in, in a hundred little groups and knots, but
because we want to gain consensus, we never decide anything on a
general scale".

The astute reader will, by now, have noticed a certain similarity
between these approaches. If it wasn't working the first time, simply
naming it "governance" won't make it work better the second time...

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- Andrew Gray
 andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk