Re: [WDDM] Re: WDDM Membership Requirement

["M. Kolar" <wddm(at)mkolar.org>]

Dear all!

I remind you that I wrote on Feb. 2:
> Here we could at first at least try to finalize some basic things that are
> long overdue, that determine how WDDM is viewed from the outside world, one
> issue at a time (for example, one simple question each week or two - would
> that be a reasonable time scale?).
>
> We can start with the character of the WDDM (I do not mean now whether it
> should be an organization or association or whatever; let's accept for now
> that it is just a group of supposedly DD advocates without any fixed
> structure). The question is: should we be a model of society at large (a
> future DD society), and accept as members anybody who has some interest in
> how the society is organized and governs itself, or should we be a group of
> people who share a rather well defined set of ideas about what democracy is,
> and concentrate on promoting this vision.
>
> So for the next while I'll be excepting here only contributions concerning
> this questions probably until we reach a reasonable consensus.

Then later I asked specifically about new member requirements.
The only response to this request was this one:

Mark Antell, editor CitizenPowerMagazine.net wrote:
> Mirek,
> Thanks for the reminder on the issue of minimum membership
> requirements.  I agree that we should enforce the presently posted
> requirement that new members must affirm postive interest in DD (or at
> least democracy improvement).    Mark Antell
> ------------------

I agree with Mark.

Can we now close this matter?
As there were no objections, and also based on the past discussions, it seems
that everybody agrees with the following:
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WDDM is a group of people who share the Mission Statement as formulated at
http://www.world-wide-democracy.net/, and concentrate on promoting this vision.

WDDM membership can be obtained quite easily by registering on the WDDM site as
described at http://www.world-wide-democracy.net/join.php
However, the new member must satisfy the following minimum requirements: fill
in correctly all the fields in the registration form. In particular, give one's
real name and in the box named "Relation to Direct Democracy" write a few words
about themselves (individual members) or a short description of the
organization - any information that could be of interest to the DD community
(and that is not yet in the "DD public domain").

If the above information in not provided, the new members will be reminded to
rectify this. If they fail to do so within another week after this reminder,
their WDDM member account will be deleted.
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Let us wait for another five days. If there are no more votes, objections, or
any other suggestions on this subject, made by e-mail to this list, this
statement will be considered a official WDDM document.

Bruce, I hope this procedure is OK. It is exactly the e-mail voting system you
suggested, I hope.

Mark will be presenting the charter proposal shortly. It will actually
incorporate the above statement in somewhat different words.

Discussion and approval of the charter will be the next item to discuss in a
similar way as the above. Maybe we could approve the charter proposal item by item?

This way we will hopefully adopt some official documents, and complete finally
the Online Constituting Convention started on March 25, 2005
(http://www.world-wide-democracy.net/archive/proposals0/wddm_index_march29_april8.html).

Mirek






WDDM Mission Statement as formulated at http://www.world-wide-democracy.net/ is
acceptable