[...] > On Nov 18, 2009, at 2:17 PM, Rob Myers wrote: > >> From personal experience, to prevent capture by political cults and >> special interest groups, to avoid organizational perfectionists, and to >> prevent decision-making paralysis. > > It is our finding that people tend not to participate in groups unless they > have some sort of interest in the activity of the group. Something like Open > Knowledge isn't really a target of political heists, is it?
I think Rob is raising important concerns, especially about the "decision-making" paralysis (which I have seen happen ...) At the same time Ed I agree with you that one wants to make it easy for people to participate in governance and to provide simple tools for doing so -- as you say the risk of "takeover" is probably low in this case (especially if we keep a close connection between those "doing stuff" and those "deciding on stuff"). Regards, Rufus [...] _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
