Re: Opening the WDDM Online Constituting Convention

[Filia den Hollander <fkdh(at)xs4all.nl>]

Dear Mirek,

Is Den Hollander missing in the below list of names?

Kind regards,
Filia den Hollander



op 14-04-2005 01:23 schreef Dave Harrison op cdharrison(at)uniserve.com:

> Hi All,
>
> I have no objections to anyone who is in favour of participatory democracy.
>
> Dave Harrison
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "WDDM webmaster" <wbm@world-wide-democracy.net>
> To: <wddm@world-wide-democracy.net>
> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 6:20 PM
> Subject: Opening the WDDM Online Constituting Convention
>
>
> > Welcome to the renewed WDDM!
> >     So far 16 applications for the WDDM membership have been received.
> > To see the details of all of them, please go to "Internal WDDMnet Matters"
> area
> > near the bottom of the WDDM main page, its address is
> > http://www.world-wide-democracy.net/internal/
> >     To enter this area you will need to enter your user name and password.
> User
> > name is your surname all in lowercase, and the initial password is the same
> for
> > everybody:  wddm0
> >     Here is the exact list of the user names I have created (hope that there
> > are no types in them):
> >   sagi
> >   eggum
> >   clayson
> >   lim
> >   valach
> >   macphail
> >   gottlieb
> >   adeney
> >   kolar
> >   metanomski
> >   cutler
> >   ciogolea
> >   becker
> >   salgui
> >   ortega
> >   harrison
> >
> >     In the internal area you can change your password to whatever you wish.
> >
> >     Please, review all the applications, and let others know if you have any
> > objections to any of them. (I personally do not have any.)
> >     Is 5 days enough to do this? Everybody should send back to the whole
> > mailing list (wddm@world-wide-democracy.net) a confirmation that they
> > received
> > this message, with all their comments on the applications and perhaps any
> other
> > initial proposals and comments.
> >
> >     So far we have not received any official objections from the "old WDDM"
> > against this web-based community, that is just being born here, to consider
> > ourselves its successor. Therefore, I think that we can assume we are its
> > "legal" successor, and use the name WORLDWIDE DIRECT DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT and
> the
> > abbreviation WDDM.
> >     George Sagi and perhaps some others will most probably comment on this.
> > (Only a few of the original members submitted applications so far.)
> >
> >     My personal hope: We will find some basic common DD platform that we
> > would
> > be able to show to the "outer world" while respecting the individual members
> > differences in opinion on various details. We will not insist on a single
> model
> > of DD or a single way to achieve it. We must not forget that the World is a
> > very diverse place, and each little region of it may have their own
> preferences
> > and experiences.
> >
> >     We cannot be a model of the society at large, we are just a group of
> people
> > with a common goal or vision. So we do not have to accept absolutely
> everybody.
> > But I hope we will stay wide open, and will be excluding only real
> > mean-spirited Internet vandals.
> >
> >     I only volunteered to get this site/association of the ground, and do not
> > want to impose my preferences permanently on others. At any time, you can
> > select a different webmaster, and a different structure, and move the site
> > elsewhere (right now, I am hosting it together with my personal site under
> > the
> > same hosting account, which results in a discount for the WDDM hosting).
> >
> >     We may need one more mailing list moderator (to substitute for me if I am
> > not available). But that is not urgent, becase right now, the only two roles
> of
> > our mailing list moderator is to process the new members applications and to
> > allow non-members to post to this mailing list
> (wddm@world-wide-democracy.net).
> > This list is supposed to be for the internal discussions only. You can post
> > messages without moderator's approval. All old messages may be retrieved by
> the
> > members only (using the get e-mail address - see the mailing list help page).
> >     More urgent may be to select a WDDM "organizing moderator" (or whatever
> you
> > want to call this position) to preside over the online discussions and
> > processing of proposals. I would prefer to stay with the technical (web site)
> > matters, and I do not have time to do everything anyway.
> >
> >     All members will have their personal areas on this web site, where they
> can
> > post everything they wish for the outer world to see. All your differences
> with
> > the future WDDM common platform can be discussed here. (Right now I am still
> > working on this area.)
> >
> >     We can have an arbitrary number of e-mail addresses of the type
> > user_name(at)world-wide-democracy.net . If you wish, you can get such personal
> > e-mail accounts, or we could use these addresses for various polling and
> voting
> > functions.
> >
> >     Initially we are starting with the simple rules still posted on the main
> > WDDM page (I'll soon move them into the Archive). If you want to change
> > anything, please, make your proposals.
> >     There are already a few proposals from you in the Archive, with links
> added
> > to your CV in the list of all initial member applications.
> >
> >     So I am looking forward to your ideas (to be addressed to the whole
> > list).
> > But, first please review all the applications, so that we can have an
> > mutually
> > approved initial membership.
> >
> >     All the best,
> > Miroslav