[governance] FW: [bestbits] Call to Best Bits participants for nominations to Brazil meeting committees

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Put in civil society terms, is a collegial and productive atmosphere likely to be retained if X is included in whatever committee it is?  Is X likely to build bridges with other communities rather than pick fights or explicitly exclude and crowd them out?  

The answer to those questions and other similar ones would determine whether X is even elected dogcatcher rather than being placed on a global committee of any sort.

--srs (iPad)

> On 25-Dec-2013, at 4:12, "michael gurstein" <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> And since others from the "Civil Society Coordinating Committee" have peddling this line in this venue as well...
> 
> M
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: michael gurstein [mailto:gurstein at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2013 5:36 AM
> To: 'Avri Doria'; 'Bits bestbits at lists.bestbits.net'
> Subject: RE: [bestbits] Call to Best Bits participants for nominations to Brazil meeting committees
> 
> In England, where I spent some idle years pursuing an education they had a term--"clubbable"--what it meant was, whether you were suitable to be asked to "join the club"... 
> 
> Now among the overt criteria for being "clubbable" was of course, whether you were "nice" enough, whether you would fit in with the existing members, make them feel comfortable and all warm and cozy at and in your presence.
> 
> Of course what that really meant was whether you were sufficiently "like us" for them to let you into the club... whether you were the right colour, or the right gender, had gone to the right schools, were of an appropriate religion, and of course, overall whether your "politics/value system" would be such as to support the "club's" status quo--their perq's and privileges, folkways and prejudices...
> 
> Needless to say I was never "invited".
> 
> But I have to ask here, are you folks really serious about this--having as a criteria for joining a "Coordinating Committee" of "Civil Society" whether someone adheres to kindergarten rules of playing "nice"... 
> 
> If that is so then surely any right minded person would treat this self-selected grouping and this process with the contempt and derision it deserves.
> 
> M
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bestbits-request at lists.bestbits.net [mailto:bestbits-request at lists.bestbits.net] On Behalf Of Avri Doria
> Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2013 7:24 PM
> To: Bits bestbits at lists.bestbits.net
> Subject: Re: [bestbits] Call to Best Bits participants for nominations to Brazil meeting committees
> 
> [MG>] snipped...
> 
> So sure put in the criterion of including minority viewpoints, but also put in the criterion of "plays well with others."
> 
> avri
> 
> 
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