This came across from Noisebridge discuss. It contains a call for input from other spaces.
Feel free to join the discussion over there. ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] better tech for making decisions (other hackerspaces encouraged to comment!) Date: Wednesday, April 02, 2014, 10:22:03 From: Naomi Most <pna...@gmail.com> To: Noisebridge Discuss <noisebridge-disc...@lists.noisebridge.net> One strong discussion topic that came up at the meeting tonight was the idea of finding a better technology for discussion and decision-making than the one we have now. The technology we use now is meeting up at one specific time and place, with very little discussed beforehand. The limitations of this technology: * strongly advantages the viewpoints of people who have more free time. * has demonstrably disenfranchised those who have wanted to use "proxy" methods to voice their views. So rather than talk about a new voting method, which would entail the same above problems, we talked about ways to get greater participation before a meeting, where all interested parties could participate in the discussion topics that interest them. Such a technology would have the following features: * Internal to Noisebridge (so, NOT the nb-discuss list). * Secure (reasonably protected from surveillance by unwanted parties) * Conducive to discussion -- bonus points for enabling compartmentalized discussions (e.g. using collaboration software like Github, Slack, others...) * Accessible via as many forms of technology as possible (that's a tough one... maybe we compromise at "you can participate via consoles at the NB space") Ideas surfaced such as: * setting up a separate mailing list specifically for discussions between members / associate members / whatever-we-call-people-these-days, with approval needed to join the list and very "active moderation" * building a technology to our needs. * finding some other technology that already embodies the structure and accessibility we want. I know some hackerspaces have their own bespoke tech for decisionmaking, and I'd like to see it profiled in this thread -- its advantages, limitations, and how well it's been working so far. Cheers, Naomi -- Naomi Theora Most na...@nthmost.com +1-415-728-7490 skype: nthmost http://twitter.com/nthmost _______________________________________________ Noisebridge-discuss mailing list noisebridge-disc...@lists.noisebridge.net https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss -----------------------------------------
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