On 23/07/2013 09:36, Michel Bauwens wrote:

Dear Denis,

Right now, I and our little group are facing scaling issue, the interest is exploding, demands on our time is skyrocketing, and we should professionalize, but, are not successful yet in achieving this new phase.

Hello Michel,
I won't comment on the 'confession', both the damage and the culprit(s) seem out of my range, and happily, since this message was posted your circumstances seem to have improved a bit.

However I want to strongly argue against any idea of 'professionalizing' as a mistaken model for structuring an entity such as the P2P Foundation. I could say more on that if anyone is interested.

I'd join James in what I understand him to be saying, that the P2P Foundation move from a 'divergence' phase - curating everything relevant and trying out anything that is on offer - to a phase of 'convergence', making sense - more focused evaluation against constitutional criteria - for instance moving towards giving a higher priority to positive programme than critique. This won't be news to P2P but how it can be handled might be.

Given that as James says, the Foundation needs to be have a separate constitutional status (maybe it already does) what I am suggesting is that alongside but distinct from this, the P2P foundation group adopts a cooperative enquiry process for the group's day to day structuring of priorities, actions and holding to constitutional intentions.

Cooperative enquiry is well attested protocol for P2P engagement, here is a basic cooperative enquiry recipe and if John Heron, one of the developers of cooperative enquiry is looking in, perhaps he might have something to say about how it could work for the P2P foundation.

Denis

Michel

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Subject: [P2P-F] an important announcement of the p2p foundation
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>important announcement.

>We probably won't give more details than this, though some formal
statement in our blog may be forthcoming.

Shocking news, Michel. While I can appreciate your concern to limit how
these events are described, it seems important for us to know whether they
are the actions of a disaffected individual or a group, and if a group,
then surely this should be identified.

Longer term finance is a strategice issue, but If everyone reading here
were to donate the cost of a couple of meals out with friends that might
take you some way towards a better keyboard. Let's do it!
Denis

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