[pp.int.general] consensus experiment

[Zbigniew Łukasiak]

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Andreas Czák <Sonstwer at piratenpartei.at> wrote:
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> I've posted a counter proposal in your pad
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> http://pad.polskapartiapiratow.pl/p/CommunicationChannels
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> #Counter Proposal:
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>     Identify the interests of local pirate organisations (and people)
>     create channels based on the same interests
>     -> leads to international working groups on specific tasks
>     -> reduces the information overflow on coordinators
>    -> makes it easier to work on specific tasks and topics rather than
> having to read ALL the international communication
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> Reason for me is: There're sooo many mails and i'm not able to read them all
> in order to get things done we must split communication based on topics,
> doing so will enable more pirates to work together on the things they're
> interested in

Good idea.  It is not really incompatible with my proposal.

I think what was lacking in the previous efforts is *community building*.
What we need is more or less stable groups, with defined boundaries,
that have the power to self-govern (and thus reduce trolls and
flames). If the goal is global - than these groups need
representatives from many parties (optimally from all existing pirate
parties). Building them will require some effort.

My idea is to use the consensus process when building one or more of
these groups.

Because the community building requires much effort - than when we
build such a group it should not have too narrow goal.


Plus I listed some goals for such a group to tackle:

* organizing coordinated actions (mostly protests, but also actions
like welcoming Snowden etc.)

* working on common program core (the European common core program is
very useful for small parties and it should be copied worldwide)

* making common declarations

* maybe working on PPI statutes


Cheers,
Z.