[MG] Hosting and collaborative development of crossforum theatre

[Ed Pastore]

On Jan 7, 2011, at 9:06 AM, Thomas von der Elbe wrote:

> Am 07.01.2011 14:32, schrieb Pietro Speroni di Fenizio:
>> One thing that came to me was that I wished that no one, not Michael,
>> not me, not Ed, just no single person had the power to destroy the
>> whole project.
>
> +1
>
>> It would be interesting to set up a system where an action (let's  
>> say,
>> an email get sent, which then could trigger a number of other  
>> actions)
>> only when everybody inside a group, (or at least n people out of a
>> group, or at least ... but considering that this person counts
>> more...) agrees on it.
>
> I thought about this issue too. And I agree, we need a mechanism to  
> govern ourselves. Basically for every desicion, let it be the  
> homepage, the licence, the admin-rules etc. Ofc we can use our own  
> tools to vote on it. But we would first need to find out, what the  
> conditions are to say, a poll is finished. What is consensus? Do we  
> want the same consensus in every question? Imo destroying the  
> project should be harder than changing the homepage ... So this is  
> the meta-question we were talking about some time ago: When is a  
> question decided? (To make it even more complicated: the meta-meta- 
> question: When is the meta-question decided? :-)

Very good questions. ANyone have any suggested answers? :)



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