[P2P-F] an important announcement of the p2p foundation

[Denis Postle]

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 
<http://www.mindgymnasium.com/ebooks/PDFs/CulturesCooperation.pdf> 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
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> Michel
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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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