[governance] Fwd: IGC Membership list

[Parminder]

>It's supposed to be a much more zen-like, "anarchic community" (if you'll
>pardon the oxymoron) rather than a political party

McTim

Nothing in my reading of the charter of the group makes it look like it was
created as an anarchic community. Policy advocacy is stated as its central
objective, and this objective is by all means very political. And no one
thinks it is a political party. A political party - as an organization -
aspires to political offices, this group doesn't. 

Parminder 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: McTim [mailto:dogwallah at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 9:59 PM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; William Drake
> Cc: Jeanette Hofmann
> Subject: Re: [governance] Fwd: IGC Membership list
> 
> Hiya Bill,
> 
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 7:06 PM, William Drake
> <william.drake at graduateinstitute.ch> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Jeanette Hofmann <jeanette at wzb.eu>
> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> now that Avri explained the problem to me, I support Avri's objection.
> >> Through the act of voting, people acknowledge the charter and agree to
> be
> >> members of this caucus - not the other way around.
> >
> > But we never vote.  So we have no idea which of the 360 list
> > subscribers are caucus members, which affects how one deals with
> > consensus building, troll disruptions, etc.
> 
> It's supposed to be a much more zen-like, "anarchic community" (if
> you'll pardon the oxymoron) rather than a political party with all
> it's concomitant "stuff" (like lists). Despite what some may feel,
> this is not a political organisation.  We don't need to know who
> members are until AFTER the vote (ar at anytime that someone feels the
> need to declare themselves members).
> 
> It's just as JH said "Through the act of voting, people acknowledge
> the charter and agree to be
> members of this caucus - not the other way around."
> 
> --
> Cheers,
> 
> McTim
> $ whois -h whois.afrinic.net mctim
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