[Ag Meinungsfindungstool] International E-Democracy Talk

[Ed Pastore <epastore AT metagovernment.org>]

Then let's move on to the more fun aspect of this administrivia (and back to 
marc's original question)... what should the next topic be. Or more broadly, 
what should the theme of these meetings be?

Suggestions? If we have numerous suggestions, then we can formalize the 
selection process, but for the moment, please speak up if you have an idea 
for anything that would be of interest to the community of people working on 
our various democracy projects. Guest lecturers; topic debates, addressing 
cross-project problems, collaborating on outreach, organizing a cross-project 
funding mechanism... what do you think?


P.S. If it hasn't been evident, my participation has been rather low as there 
have been several heavy demands on my time. I will do what I can to 
facilitate these meetings, but would certainly appreciate any help anyone 
would like to volunteer.


On Oct 27, 2012, at 7:07 AM, Michael Allan wrote:

> Alexander Praetorius said:
>> I think start AT metagovernment.org is the perfect place.
> 
> I agree with Alex.  Cross-project discussion belongs here.  I know of
> no other list that's both active and neutral.  Ed has biases (as we
> all have) but he's meticulously careful not to force them on others.
> 
> If a separate facility of cross-announcements were ever needed, then
> we might implement it manually to begin with.  An official "announcer"
> (could be anyone) would subscribe to all the necessary lists and then
> post each announcement to all of them.  See how that works out.
> 
> My opinion,
> -- 
> Michael Allan
> 
> Toronto, +1 416-699-9528
> http://zelea.com/
> 
> 
>> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Ed Pastore 
>> <epastore AT metagovernment.org>wrote:
>> 
>>> Yes, I admin this list, but as we're all about collaboration, I don't want
>>> to dictate the answer. What works for others?
>>> 
>>> My suggestion of an Announce list was to hopefully avoid the scenario
>>> Nicolas brought up: over-cross-posting. If there is an announce list that
>>> does not allow discussion, it would only produce one message per week (or
>>> however often meetings are), and thus may be allowed to cross-post into
>>> other lists. Discussion of the topics and logistics of meetings could be
>>> covered on the existing metagov list for now, unless it becomes overly
>>> distracting from the topical discussions.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> P.S. Although I am proposing a cross-posting list, I can see how it would
>>> not be welcome on dev lists. Dev lists should be limited to development,
>>> and are usually complimented by another more general discussion list, 
>>> where
>>> these announcements may be more welcome. So, Nicolas, while we shouldn't
>>> cross-post to adhocracy-dev, would info AT liqd.net be an appropriate
>>> alternative?
> 
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