Agenda for community meeting on 31st January 2011

Hi,

I agreed to chair to next community meeting, Monday 31st 8pm UK time, but I haven't had any agenda items sent to me yet.



So I have placed some items on the agenda myself and it reads:

1 Welcome and Apologies

2 Matters arising from the last meeting

3 Aims and Visions

4 Getting the plan done

5 Any other business



Item 3:

The biggest hurdle I think we have in getting a plan done is that there is still a spectrum of views as to how we want to initially govern the community. The three most often mentioned are

A The sandbox approach. Almost the entire sim becomes a long return sandbox, where anyone can create anything. A few permanent information centres are added. This was first suggested by Elsa

B The fully governed approach. We create a representative democracy and elect a government who are responsible for everything, a subset holding the technical power. Working groups made up of all OUtopians do the work. CQ and Kered seem to favour this approach, and you can see details of CQ's vision in his recent thread.

C The self-governed approach. Policy decisions are made by OUtopians as a whole, and the working groups of OUtopians are given technical permissions, by the small group of permission holders, to do the things that interest them, building, finance, estate management, etc. Henn and I, for example, lean toward this approach.

(Apologies if I have mischaracterised anyone's views here.)

I think we have to either come to a consensus on this issue or vote between them, before we can move ahead with the plan, or we might decide to create multiple plans and vote after. So that's item 3. How do we get past this stumbling block and on to doing the plan?



Item 4:

This is a continuation. We have to have one or more plans complete in the next two weeks, ready for a vote off. How is that work going to be done?



If people want other items placing on the agenda - please IM me in world.



Cheers,

Jonno Stromfield