[New-imc] roll calls ....

[Bart]

Hey Everyone,


Today is the last day to do roll calls.
Tomorrow I'll post the collected roll cals and I'll do what said in my  mail of 2 weeks ago (which no one blocked/dissented).

Bart
-------------- FW off old mail of 2 weeks ago -----------
Hey Everyone,

Here are some proposals about the functioning of this list. If I hear no dissent I'll make them happen.
Everyone, feel free to discuss this.


1) There are currently 83 members on this list. When you subscribe you get a welcoming e-mail you should do a roll call. Nearly no one does this.
This is a problem since when we started this list we consensed we wanted to create a safe area. People feel uncomfortable to speak up in lists where they know no one or where most people don't even dare to say who they are. In a real life meeting these are things you can't do ...

Therefore everyone who didn't do a roll call yet, should do one before 4 march (this is 14 days ...). Otherwise they'll be unsubscribed.

2) When we started this list, we decided it was a Working Group. A working group is a group where people actually work. So people who subscribe to the list (and this is mentioned on the information page https://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/new-imc) agree they come here to work.
a) This is transparant and democratic. You can easily read all the messages in the archives. We agreed in an open way to work like this.
b) it's frustrating for people to see that tons of people are subscribed and only a couple of them are doing the work ...

3) In order to avoid again a situation where everyone subscribes, I'll change the subscription method from "confirm" to "approve + confirm". 
People will only be confirmed when a roll call is send out to the list.

4) There are other ways for transparancy: summaries. We're one of the few lists who make summaries. We send them to this list (so other people here can correct them), imc-process list (which is we're a subset from) and the imc-summaries list (the list where people should send imc-summaries to). 
So far Jay did most of them and I did one of them.
To keep people frequently updated they should be done monthly. Other imc'ers have the right to be informed regularly about what we're doing without having to read 15 mails a day.
If people want to volunteer for this ...


These are important questions & remarks ....
feel free to discuss ...

Bart
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