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Paul Tavener, 13 Sep 2005 22:05:01

I would be very useful if the people who are running the different aspects of this campaign could make themselves known with a name and email address. There is a lot to discuss and although this board is extreamly valuable for a wide range of issues there are some things are not best suited to posting in public.


adrian, 13 Sep 2005 22:51:46

At 22:04 13/09/2005 +0100, you wrote:
>I would be very useful if the people who are running the different aspects
of this campaign could make themselves known with a name and email address.
There is a lot to discuss and although this board is extreamly valuable for
a wide range of issues there are some things are not best suited to posting
in public.

Agreed. I've created private smartgroups for each workgroup and invited
the people who joined up for them at the meeting. At the moment people are
still in process of joining and there has been no discussion on them.
Obviously there will be people who weren't at the meeting who should be
added, and I'm aware that there will be still more who don't tend to work
using e-mail or webforums and whom we won't reach by this method.

But they will be smaller groups than the main one and it means that not all
our discussion will be public for someone to take out of context as an
official 'view' of the organisation.

At present there are groups for education, lobbying and research. I'll add
a press one if Dem Red wants. And I guess they will need to have a
coordinator. I'm de facto moderator on them as I started them but I will
probably step down and hand over to a coordinator/contact point for each.

Experience with other groups has shown that it's very hard for more
specialised discussion not to drift onto a main catch-all group where the
readership is big enough to keep threads going. But of course it can
easily get trivial and overlong and then people complain that there's too
much to read and not enough that they really need to read. There isn't
really an answer, excpet for us to use the specialist groups.