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<div>Dear Denis,<br>
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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.<br>
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Hello Michel,<br>
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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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. <br>
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Cooperative enquiry is well attested protocol for P2P engagement,
here is a <a
href="http://www.mindgymnasium.com/ebooks/PDFs/CulturesCooperation.pdf">basic
cooperative enquiry recipe</a> 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.<br>
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Denis<br>
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Michel<br>
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Date: <span tabindex="0" class=""><span
class="">Tue, 23 Jul 2013
07:00:47 +0200</span></span><br>
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Subject: [P2P-F] an important
announcement of the p2p foundation<br>
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>important announcement.<br>
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>We probably won't give more
details than this, though some
formal<br>
statement in our blog may be
forthcoming.<br>
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Shocking news, Michel. While I can
appreciate your concern to limit
how<br>
these events are described, it
seems important for us to know
whether they<br>
are the actions of a disaffected
individual or a group, and if a
group,<br>
then surely this should be
identified.<br>
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Longer term finance is a
strategice issue, but If everyone
reading here<br>
were to donate the cost of a
couple of meals out with friends
that might<br>
take you some way towards a better
keyboard. Let's do it!<br>
Denis<br>
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