Re: Informal steering question
Subject: Re: Informal steering question
From: Clark Robinson <robinsonchicago@gmail.com>
Date: 5/20/10, 11:17
To: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>

make sure they have access to the financial document, nothing more, leave it totally up to them whether the look at it or contribute anything to the document

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry, suggest them for which role?


On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Clark Robinson <robinsonchicago@gmail.com> wrote:
I would suggest Charles Johnson- his bio makes me think he may be a veteran of this kind of activity, and also Jeremy Sapienza; since it looks as if BushwickBK takes in advertising revenue, so he may be familiar with the business aspects of online activity.  I recognize they may both be too busy, I defer to your judgment on that.

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
I agree with you on remaining hands-off at this point for those reasons so we will continue that approach; we'll relegate our control to simply applying organizational strategies and that sort of thing.

I just invited Felipe Farley to the financial document; let me know if there's anyone else I'm missing.


On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Clark Robinson <robinsonchicago@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey, Barrett,

You asked me this question which I never really answered: "I was thinking of putting someone in charge of each such sub-program until the governing network can take over. Being "in charge" in this case would basically involve identifying questions that need to answered, delegating tasks (at least by way of noting what tasks need to be completed and asking for participants with relevant skills to volunteer for them), and otherwise just making sure that everything goes smoothly. Do you think that's the best approach at this point, perhaps if we keep the leadership largely hands-off and make such a role basically involved steering the agenda without causing undue red tape or otherwise stifling the flow of collaboration?"

My thoughts: In this early stage, with new people coming aboard daily, I think a good approach is to be hands-off/informal, to engage with people who contribute voluntarily in hopes that they will keep on doing stuff, and thus identify people to tap for leadership and administration when PPM goes more formal.

I suspect there is probably a limit to spontaneous participation and by the end of summer we will have to define responsibilities and commit to functional descriptive titles, which means in turn that we need to be thinking about what the entirely non-monetary rewards are for participation in the governing networks of the Project and sub-Projects and make sure we deliver them.

Clark Robinson
217-722-8680



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Barrett Brown
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Regards,

Barrett Brown
Brooklyn, NY
512-560-2302