Account Options

  1. Sign in
The old Google Groups will be going away soon, but your browser is incompatible with the new version.
Google Groups Home
« Groups Home
London Hackspace
Home
+ new post
About this group
Join this group
Message from discussion How to make structural changes to our organisation?
The group you are posting to is a Usenet group. Messages posted to this group will make your email address visible to anyone on the Internet.
Your reply message has not been sent.
Your post was successful
 
From:
To:
Cc:
Followup To:
Add Cc | Add Followup-to | Edit Subject
Subject:
Validation:
For verification purposes please type the characters you see in the picture below or the numbers you hear by clicking the accessibility icon. Listen and type the numbers you hear
 
Adrian Godwin  
View profile  
 More options Nov 17 2012, 5:44 am
From: Adrian Godwin <artgod...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:44:53 +0000
Local: Sat, Nov 17 2012 5:44 am
Subject: Re: [london-hack-space] How to make structural changes to our organisation?
Print | View thread | Show original | Report this message | Find messages by this author

On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Akki <belovedgodd...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Uh How about on the mailing list ... like we do every other decision and
> discussion about the Hackspace? Is that not what we're doing now? It's
> silly to discuss about where to discuss things to discuss about. Just ask
> the question in plain english, get feedback, make revisions, pose new
> questions, etc. It's the scientific method. I seriously worry that your way
> of explaining things has put off people from discussing this topic at all.
> We're too big of a group to meet somewhere IRL to discuss these things
> fully. Mailing list is the best way. Ask the question, don't ask to ask
> questions.

It's true that the mailing list is supposed to be where we discuss this
sort of thing, and that it's more practical than IRL.

But it's not really working.  A typical thread has only a tiny number of
contributors and there's often no clear outcome - the thread dies more
because it's not going anywhere than because it is resolved, and it isn't
clear whether the silent majority are agreeing or ignoring.

If we had real life meetings with that level of involvement, we wouldn't
consider them successful - but at least we'd be able to gauge interest from
numbers and result from body language.

This doesn't mean the mailing list is the wrong approach, and that meetings
are the right one. But we haven't really tried the meeting approach, and we
do need greater involvement and commitment than we currently have, IMO.

-adrian


 
You must Sign in before you can post messages.
To post a message you must first join this group.
Please update your nickname on the subscription settings page before posting.
You do not have the permission required to post.
Create a group - Google Groups - Google Home - Terms of Service - Privacy Policy
©2013 Google