[discuss] Updated Web site

Wed Feb 5 02:37:20 UTC 2014

P.S.  Did the "Steering Committee" approve this shift?

PP.'S.  Will more than a few members of the Steering Committee ever come
play with us?

There are a few challenges with creating mechanisms to encourage discussion
leading to productive output.. If we constantly have to ask the steering
committee to guide us as we innovate then we are in danger of giving them
too much party. I do not imagine the Inet to desire to be another
bureaucratic machine but rather a space for dialogue. The steering
committee should also have clearly defined roles and should guide. There
are two ways of looking at the initiative to come up with the changes and
they are:-

1)taking initiative and being innovative
2)dictatorial in telling the community

I am inclined to believe that the spirit behind the new forum discussion
board is (1) but without a doubt, the Steering committee and the
administrative staff will learn that things have to be communicated to
avoid misconception and we can also be generous in allowing room for people
to take initiative and ownership. I would assume that they are open to
receiving volunteers who can plan and discuss avenues to make comms easier.

Live and let live :)

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Shatan, Gregory S. <GShatan at reedsmith.com>wrote:

> So instead of monitoring one messy mailing list, we'll need to monitor a
> dozen forums (fora)?  Not sure which is the more productive of two evils.
>  A single "general discussion" forum with properly displayed threaded
> discussions might be better, rather than balkanizing us at this point.  I
> think the cross-pollination here has some positive effects.
>
> Maybe a single "board' wouldn't scale as well, but I don't know whether
> scalability is a key premise for 1net.
>
> I suppose we will learn to adapt.
>
> Greg
>
> P.S.  Did the "Steering Committee" approve this shift?
>
> PP.'S.  Will more than a few members of the Steering Committee ever come
> play with us?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at 1net.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at 1net.org] On
> Behalf Of Andrew Sullivan
> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 8:14 PM
> To: discuss at 1net.org
> Subject: Re: [discuss] Updated Web site
>
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 10:22:11PM +0400, Adiel Akplogan wrote:
> > On 2014-02-04, at 22:06 PM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs at anvilwalrusden.com>
> wrote:
>
> > > Does this mean that to send remarks to the discussion, one needs to
> > > log into the forum?
> >
> > Yes Andrew that is what it means. Thanks.
>
> I see others claim not, and apparently my message got through, so I'll try
> again this way until it fails.
>
> I just went to the forum (perhaps amusingly, attempting to get to
> http://1net.org simply timed out) to see whether there were things I
> didn't see in my INBOX.  The only thing I could see was a note about
> website support and suggestions (none of the discussion I saw on the list
> today was there, for instance).  I didn't log in or create an account.  I
> sure hope one doesn't need to log in to read posts in the forum.
>
> For what it's worth, I think the chances that I'm going to go to some
> special web forum to have any kind of discussion on any topic are pretty
> near zero.  (I have occasionally, when forced to do it, used such forum
> systems for technical support.)  I already have far too much volume of
> communication, and there is little chance I'm going to learn a new
> interface just for this purpose.  There are doubtless people who will be
> delighted that I've at last gone quiet, so at least that goal will have
> been achieved.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Andrew
>
> --
> Andrew Sullivan
> ajs at anvilwalrusden.com
>
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