Re: WDDM future

[Bruce Eggum <bruce.eggum(at)gmail.com>]

WDDM members,
I have responded to the poll here and also on this Wiki.
Bruce,

My page is here: http://www.world-wide-democracy.net/Wiki/BrEggum

This Wiki page of the Poll is here: http://www.world-wide-democracy.net/Wiki/BrPoll

How To Proceed with WDDM Organizing?

Dec. 18, 2005: This is proposal for conducting a poll among the WDDM members.
Please feel free to comment on this proposal in any way (here in Wiki
or in the WDDM mailing list), and add of modify proposed questions.
Discussion of the wording of the poll questions will be closed on Dec.
25, and after that the questions will be submitted to all the members.
They will have another week (10 days, 2 weeks???) to answer them.

Proposed questions:

1. Why have you become a WDDM member? I believe in the Initiative
Referendum process known as DD. I believe each Nation / State /
Community must have DD. I also advocate a DD which the people maintain
total power. WDDM seeks to bring this information to all and for that
reason I am a member of WDDM.
2. What should WDDM try to achieve? First, WDDM must define itself and
organize itself. Than WDDM can begin providing links and information
about DD and methods for each Nation, State, Community can develop DD
for itself.
3. Does WDDM need a decision making mechanism (voting)? Certainly. How
else can any decision be made? There seems to be some question about
consensus or 50% + 1. They are both useful in different situations.
This would be defined in the policies. To determine consensus of WDDM,
the opinion, position of members of WDDM must be counted. How else to
do that than an election? In Cyberspace, it is necessary to vote by
email, or a poll etc. Obviously aye/nay or holding up ones hand to show
for or against won't work!
4. Is there any point to wait any longer that any spontaneous progress
(self-organization) will be made on issues that were moved to AdjournedHistoricalTopics
section? These should all be approved as no contrary voice has been
raised since their publication. WDDM should have it's own Bulletin
Board however.
5. Should instead a small group of active WDDM members formulate all
the basic documents (Mission. Goals, Rules, Voting procedures)? This
would be helpful. Only a few have the time and are willing to do this
work. The end result of course would be approved by the WDDM members by
an agreed form of poll, email, or other election process. We must start
so we can approve an election process. This poll and response will form
the initial methods for these actions until formal methods are written.
6. Do you want to be a part of the group? Yes
7. Should the WDDM mailing list be fully moderated (any postings would
have to be approved by one or two moderators to avoid tons of junk
mail)? Yes


1. Do you need interactive dynamical site? I read it and agree. However
WDDM should have it's own Bulletin Board. I like the Shema index page,
find it useful.
2. Do you like/dislike WDDM Wiki? I think Wiki has many uses. Members
may feel more comfortable pasting their documents on the Wiki. I
believe it should be maintained if it is cost efficient.
3. How complicated is this Wiki to use? It takes a bit to understand. As we continue, we can help each other.
4. Have you tried to read GettingStarted? Yes, it has been helpful. More Wiki information may be useful. Refer to another helpful site could help also.
5. Should Wiki be replaced or supplemented by something else
interactive? What? I definitely would like a WDDM Bulletin Board! I
suggest we maintain Wiki for a bit to see if we use it more.

On 12/18/05, Leopoldo Salgui <lsalgui(at)demopunk.net > wrote:

This poll is a quite valuable initiative.

Indeed, I will participate submitting my opinion.

Leo

El Sunday, 18 de December de 2005 15:19, M. Kolar escribió:
> Hello everybody,
> It seems that there is time to try something new here in the WDDM because
> the experiment in self-organizing that I have started in April clearly
> failed.
>
> WDDM Wiki is apparently not used much and disliked by many. We are making
> steps to have a standard bulletin Board as an addition or replacement to
> Wiki.
>
> More importantly, we need finally some basic structure, and a decision
> making mechanism (not to make decisions for all the people in the world,
> but only for us internally, how to do our yet to be defined business, and
> how to define that business).
>
> To move things to the next stage, I want to poll all the members on their
> opinions on this. I prepared a first draft of the poll questions at this
> page: http://www.world-wide-democracy.net/Wiki/HowToProceedPoll
> (and I will copy it at the end of this message).
> In the first stage I invite everybody to comment and help to make the final
> meaningful list of the questions. Then after Dec. 25, we'll proceed with
> answering these questions.
>
> I propose that those members who would not participate at all in this poll,
> lose the status of active members, and would be perhaps listed only as
> supporters/sympathizers. Otherwise nobody would be forced to answer all the
> questions, the keep the active member status, it would be enough to answer
> at least some of them (one or more?).
>
> Mirek
>
> -----------
> Here is the copy of the above HowToProceedPoll Wiki page:
>
> How To Proceed with WDDM Organizing?
>
> Dec. 18, 2005: This is proposal for conducting a poll among the WDDM
> members. Please feel free to comment on this proposal in any way (here in
> Wiki or in the WDDm mailing list), and add of modify proposed questions.
> Discussion of the wording of the poll questions will be closed on Dec. 25,
> and after that the questions will be submitted to all the members.
> They will have another week (10 days, 2 weeks???) to answer them.
>
> Proposed questions:
>
>     1. Why have you become a WDDM member?
>     2. What should WDDM try to achieve?
>     3. Does WDDM need a decision making mechanism (voting)?
>     4. Is there any point to wait any longer that any spontaneous progress
> (self-organization) will be made on issues that were moved to
> http://www.world-wide-democracy.net/Wiki/AdjournedHistoricalTopics section?
>     5. Should instead a small group of active WDDM members formulate all
> the basic documents (Mission. Goals, Rules, Voting procedures)?
>     6. Do you want to be a part of the group?
>     7. Should the WDDM mailing list be fully moderated (any postings would
> have to be approved by one or two moderators to avoid tons of junk mail)?
>
>
>     1. Do you need interactive dynamical site?
>     2. Do you like/dislike WDDM Wiki?
>     3. How complicated is this Wiki to use?
>     4. Have you tried to read
> http://www.world-wide-democracy.net/Wiki/GettingStarted?
>     5. Should Wiki be replaced or supplemented by something else
> interactive? What?