[bestbits] Best Bits MAG nominations for your approval - URGENT

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 03/12/13 01:11, parminder wrote:
> 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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