Michael wrote: > Ron asks what the rules of collaboration are. I suspect that rules are > likely to inhibit collaboration, but then, following Marx, I do not know how > to write cookbooks. My intuition is that trust and respect are essential to > fruitful collaboration. Julio's description of the fortunately infrequent > bad behavior indicates that those conditions are not in effect here.
Michael, Yes, respect and trust. These are, of course, things you earn. But it helps when people start by giving one another the benefit of the doubt. I wonder whether a good rule of list etiquette would be to have people who post for the first time introduce themselves and -- important! -- relation, acquaintance, friendship, or prior joint work with existing list members. I mean, there's the issue of how much people may want to disclose about themselves here, in this space that it is not only public at once but inter-temporally as well, which may be too much to ask in some political and work environments. But anything that could help people see where others are coming from. Another rule would be to ask people who just start posting to go back on the archives and search about the people they are responding to, so they don't just make assumptions about them. Anything that helps build empathy and mutual trust. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
