[Consensus] [Facilitation] GA Process and Purpose
Greg
gsjmurphy at gmail.com
Fri Feb 24 20:54:38 EST 2012
Am quite interest and out of town until Monday night. Am ccing Consensus WG, as well.
Gregory S. Murphy
On Feb 24, 2012, at 6:50 PM, Charlie DeTar <c at tirl.org> wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> I'm working on getting an email list for us. In the mean time, we can
> reply-all here, and try to keep adding people to the CC list as they join.
>
> Shall we schedule our first meeting?
>
> http://schedule.occupy.net/OB_GA_Process_and_Purpose/
>
> Please fill in times you can or can't make. The date options are all
> day Sat and Sun, 5pm and later for the week days next week. If none of
> these times work we can reconsider options.
>
> best,
> Charlie
>
> On 02/24/2012 10:02 AM, Dennis Fox wrote:
>> I'm on my way out of town for a few days, will be back for Tuesday's
>> court date and then leaving Thursday for 10 days. Despite this, I'm very
>> interested in this group beginning to build on Tuesday's GA discussion
>> and other currents of change. I'm especially interested in taking what
>> we're calling a step back and exploring how GA process and the structure
>> of our GA evenings can be aligned better with whatever principles of
>> organization and decision making we think they should be aligned with.
>>
>> In the Macro small group on Tuesday there was a lot of interest in
>> adding a regular discussion component to GA, and I know various
>> proposals about this are in the works. I hope we can look at this as a
>> whole rather than piecemeal. I'm also interested in making GA the place
>> for General gatherings - otherwise we don't have a place for everyone in
>> OB to come together.
>>
>> I'm adding Facilitation to this email so others who expressed interest
>> yesterday can add themselves individually.
>>
>> See you next week.
>>
>> Dennis
>>
>>
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>> On Feb 23, 2012, at 10:23 PM, Charlie DeTar wrote:
>>
>>> Hey folks,
>>>
>>> Thanks for expressing interest in taking a look at the GA process! This
>>> is a small group for us to start out with, but perhaps we can get some
>>> interest from others to chip in as well as we go along.
>>>
>>> First question: does someone have a recommendation for a mailing list
>>> provider to use? Is it easy to get a list on mayfirst? Or riseup?
>>> (I've got a server that we could use, but I don't want to be
>>> presumptuous).
>>>
>>> Next, I guess we should chime in with what our goals are for the
>>> process. Things a few of us at the Facilitator's Working Group meeting
>>> discussed included:
>>>
>>> - Collating and documenting results from Tuesday's GA about GA's
>>> - Soliciting more input from folks with these issues
>>> - Thinking about how the GA will remain functional as we expect
>>> to grow during the spring.
>>>
>>> It seems to me that trying to tackle issues like the one that took the
>>> first hour of tonight's GA would be good too. :)
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if we're a "working group" or a "committee" or what; we had
>>> talked about "committee" before but at tonight's GA the stack
>>> facilitator put it on as "working group". Not sure the noun-phrase is
>>> critical; but I agree with the intention of keeping as much as possible
>>> of the process out in the open and encouraging as much participation as
>>> we can.
>>>
>>> I haven't met all of you yet, so a brief intro: I'm a PhD student at MIT
>>> doing a dissertation on online tools for concensus decision making. A
>>> project site that I'm maintaining for that work is here:
>>> http://project.byconsens.us. I've been living in co-ops, working in
>>> collectives, and on consensus-oriented boards of directors for the last
>>> 10 years. I've had only limited involvement with Occupy so far -- done
>>> a little work with Occupy Research and some data hackathons, and
>>> attended a few GA's and events, but that's it. This is my first deeper
>>> participation. :)
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> Charlie
>>
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