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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/12/13 01:11, parminder wrote:<br>
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My preferred option is to make BB into a membership based
organisation. My impression at its inaugural meeting was that it
was supposed to emerge as a membership based body, where serious
and committed civil society organisations/ individuals will like
to work together in peace and with focus, away from the general
din of civil society conversations.<br>
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Thanks, that's really much more helpful. We now know that your main
objection is that you want a more tightly institutionalised Best
Bits, closer to an organisation than to a loose platform or network,
and you have now described what you are looking for specifically and
clearly.<br>
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However it does seem fair to say that most others don't want those
changes, at the current point in time. This came across both at the
meeting in Bali, and in responses here.<br>
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Can we therefore park this disagreement and revisit it once the
interim steering committee have issued their 2013 report, that
Anriette called for in her proposal? This will at least give people
(you and others) more background to inform their decision about
whether Best Bits should change into an organisation with specific
membership criteria, charter, etc.<br>
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Meanwhile we can also try to limit straying into acting as a de
facto organisation, though I still contend that there may be some
actions that we can take, beyond sign-on statements, that the
community should be able to endorse us doing by overall consensus,
without requiring all the additional organisational baggage.<br>
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Let's take the heat down a notch - your latest reply has helped -
and we will try to be sensitive to the differences between
organisation that you have described.<br>
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