[Consensus] GA Process and Purpose

Gregory Murphy gsjmurphy at gmail.com
Wed Feb 29 12:18:36 EST 2012


Hi Charlie, et. al.,

I have edited the scratchpad, pretty dramatically, and assigned time
allotments. I think this group has a tremendous opportunity to have a
profound and important impact on OB's GA process, as well as an
opportunity, right from the beginning of its inception, to model best WG
practices.

I am advising we set aside time to agree on our Mission, our Values and how
we want to conduct business, for ourselves. I do not suggest that we can
finish this process in this first session, but think it important that we
start the process, and allot time at each WG meeting, until we have reached
agreement.

I see that the wiki has this language, *"This working group has the
specific intention of taking a critical look at the processes and purposes
of the General Assembly, and generating proposals for how to improve the
process in anticipation of growth in the spring.," * and though I am in
general agreement with its sentiment, I assume that is one person's vision
and suggest that as a WG, we will be well served, in the long run, by
taking the time to be clear about our purpose* *and understand the values
we feel are necessary to do our agreed upon work.*

*I look forward to meeting, though I may only be present for the first
hour, due to competing demands.*


*Greg*


*
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Charlie DeTar <c at tirl.org> wrote:

> Great, sounds like we'll have a good number of folks for a first meeting.
>
> Here's a scratchpad I started for an agenda/topics of discussion:
>
> http://notes.occupy.net/p/4QL1LwLLwa
>
> Please add anything you'd like to talk about.  And if you can't be
> there, please feel free to jot down ideas, concerns, or thoughts you'd
> like others to discuss or keep in mind.
>
> cheers,
> Charlie
>
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