Does this community have a wiki that "explicitly" documents knowledge
shared on list - around ideas and concepts so that it lives somewhere
other then just "the list archives" this is not a good format for
retrieval by others in the future.
It is a pattern of effective open source communities to do so.
Just wondering.
=kaliya
On Nov 16, 2007, at 12:23 PM, Peggy Holman wrote:
Hi Kerry,
Yes, that's definitely the direction I'm heading - essentially
fund the underlying strategy of growing community on many scales -
including Earth community in different settings.
Thanks for your framing of it.
Peggy
----- Original Message ----- From: "kerry napuk" <k...@napuk.demon.co.uk>
To: <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 3:41 AM
Subject: [OSLIST] more funding community work?
Peggy & Doug
Helpful redefinition of the question "how can we find funding
sources to do the difficult and innovative work of bringing
communities together?"
Maybe we should do some lateral thinking. Traditionally, we
respond to a sponsor with a specific problem where the application
of a large group process, especially OS, is an effective way to
bring people together to create a way forward or a shared
future. Perhaps we should turn this approach on its head by
presenting the process as a means for a concerned funding source
to promote community building and participatory democracy distinct
from and alternative to specific organisational initiatives and
sponsorship.
In other words, can OS be made attractive as a generic process
that a civil institution would support as an offering to the
Community? Is there something in your country like the UK's
Roundtree Foundation that funds projects to reform or expand the
political process? Is there a credible and progressive think tank
that shares OS values and would put together a programme and find
funding? If so, would it be worth making a proposal by a group of
practitioners or even an OS institute to fund the generic
application of OS to Communities and present it to a foundation or
think tank? Once the process is piloted, it can be rolled out to
more people and places.
Public decision making and politics clearly are failing and
desparately need to find new ways to involve more people.
Conventional approaches no longer work. Rather, public decision
making continues to fall into fewer and fewer hands and, more
often than not, is hidden from "public" view until it is too late
to change except to protest. OS has the fantastic ability to be
organised quickly and involve large numbers who have the passion
(care about an issue) and do something about it (take
responsibility.)
Does this make any sense?
Kind regards
Kerry
Edinburgh
www.openfutures.com
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