[bestbits] Report back with some options for open/closed lists

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 13/11/13 19:04, Tapani Tarvainen wrote:
> On Nov 12 20:18, Deborah Brown (deborah at accessnow.org) wrote:
>
>> I'm reporting back from some discussions among
>> the interim steering committee* on different options for moving forward.
>> Here are the some options we came up with:
>>
>>    1. Everything on the public list (i.e. status quo)
>>    2. Using the open list as the default, and have the option of moving
>>    strategic conversations to the private list
>>    3. Using the open list as the default, and starting issue-specific lists
>>    for strategic discussions among civil society. This would follow the model
>>    of the [EC] list that was used to prepare Best Bits' submission to WGEC
>>    (welcoming suggestions to improve that model). Drafting and strategic
>>    discussions took place on the closed list and were reported back to the
>>    main list.
>>
>> Most of us on steering prefer option 3, but we could not come to an
>> agreement on whether or not the archives of emails on civil society list
>> should be public or only available to the members of the list.
> I would prefer option three with public archives.
>
> I would, however, also like to point out a possible middle ground:
> make the archives public with a delay.

Since we really need to be moving on with discussions now, and since it
seems that most people can live with option three, and since a few
people have already been subscribing to summit at lists.bestbits.net in
anticipation of option three being accepted, I'm going to plough ahead
and declare that subject-specific list ready for use.

Changing the list archives from public to private or to
public-with-delay (subject to technical feasibility) will not be a
problem if a consensus later emerges to do that.  So this debate is not
forever closed.

As a few people have complained, with some fairness, "oh no, not another
list to subscribe to", I'm going to make things slightly easier for you
by folding the private and steering lists into the summit list.  The
private and steering lists still exist independently, but if you are
subscribed to either of those, then by default you are subscribed to
summit also.  Please email me off-list if you are on private or steering
and don't want to be on summit.

However the main Best Bits list, is not being folded into the summit
list, so if you are only a member of the main list, you will need to
subscribe to summit (or private) separately at
http://lists.bestbits.net/wws.

I'm also cognisant that JFC Morfin has set up another summit specific
list in conjunction with this bramsummit.org wiki, and normally I
wouldn't want to ride roughshod over that by opening a new list. 
However as there was the desire for a Best Bits summit list, and as
there have been no messages posted to the bramsummit.org list yet, I
hope neither he nor anyone else will mind.

Please forward this to any other civil society participants whom you
know want to discuss the summit but who aren't on the main Best Bits
list.  If you have any other questions or concerns, please let me or the
interim steering committee know.

Thanks!

-- 

*Dr Jeremy Malcolm
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