Hello!<br>This is my first post in the PPI ML and my english isn't famous. But I the issue seems very important to me.<br><br>I think that Zbigniew Lukasiak is absolutely right and that the international discussion should be enriched and diversified with many blogs and ML.<br>
But how to manage the complexity? How could the communication stMaybe could the Opensource world be helpful and give us some models?<br>In my own country, France, we haven't got yet a satisfactory solution. We are trying to improve our internal communication. But in my opinion it remains relatively poor and too often dedicated to internal problems. <br>
And GA shouldn't be the place to discuss complex issues.<br><br>So what can to do to get more creative?<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/12/9 Zbigniew Łukasiak <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zzbbyy@gmail.com" target="_blank">zzbbyy@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Short version:<br>
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online voting - no<br>
(<a href="http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2012/10/155536-internet-voting-in-the-us/fulltext" target="_blank">http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2012/10/155536-internet-voting-in-the-us/fulltext</a>)<br>
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online discussion - yes<br>
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Longer version:<br>
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Comming from the Open Source world I am surprised by the scarcity of<br>
international disscussion in the Pirate Movement. This list and the<br>
PirateTimes are perhaps the only places where the international pirate<br>
topics are discussed. This is not enough - if that was an Open Source<br>
project you'd have many individual blogs and many more mailing lists<br>
where people would discuss stuff from many angles and also in more<br>
personal less formal ways.<br>
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I have the feeling that all that discussion that does not happen<br>
online is then crammed into the General Assemblies. In my opinion GAs<br>
should be just a matter of recording the consensus on matters that<br>
would be exhaustingly discussed online. That is not to say that<br>
discussion would be forbidden - only that we should try to avoid it.<br>
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Online voting is a can of worms - it can probably work well for<br>
non-secret voting - but to get it right is much more difficult than it<br>
seems. Especially in the context of international negotiations we<br>
cannot put so much faith in the administators of the system. And<br>
please read the paper linked above.<br>
Of course discussion systems are subject of similar concerns - but it<br>
does not need to be so centralized - and beside that it would be<br>
subject to the supervision of the safe, in person, GA.<br>
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Zbigniew Lukasiak<br>
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