RE: iSeries Nation Update.....

["jt" <jt@xxxxxx>]

David,

Is this going to be open to the public, or by invite only?  There's pros and
cons to both.

Either way, Janet Krueger sent me a couple websites, a while back, that
might be of interest.

One is http://www.e-democracy.org/mn-politics/mpd.txt which shows the
guidelines for MN-POLITICS-DISCUSS (MPD).  MPD is "a citizen-based online
interactive public commons - a virtual citizen assembly."

The rules they use would prevent an idiot, such as myself, from clogging up
everyone's mailboxes with a bunch of useless chatter (or worse).

She also said "If you combined the rules for discussion here, with some of
the rules for sharing code/algorithms on www.gnu.org, you'd have half your
work done..."  I haven't studied GNU all that much, but Janet has had *a
huge amount* of experience with these kinds of e-groups, so I'm sure she's
right.

IMHO, it doesn't matter if you have 20 or 20,000 people participating,
you'll probably need some well-defined guidelines and some people to enforce
them, if you want to have any hope of accomplishing anything.

I'll be looking forward to see what you all end up doing here.

J. Toran




-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of David Gibbs
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 12:20 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: iSeries Nation Update.....


At 09:48 AM 5/20/2001, you wrote:
>If there is a serious discussion of i-Series Nation it can't be hosted by
>IBM  -  it should be here, on mid-range, away from IBM bossism.  How about
>it Dave?   What do you think?


You betcha!

david

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