[sudo-discuss] Robb's question about the Becoming Omni process

[Robb Anonymous]

thx, laura. i was concerned that participants might have the impression
that "The Omni" had initiated the becoming omni process. i described the
role of the collectives in the process to one of my working group members
and it felt uncomfortable.
~r

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 1:02 AM, Laura Turiano <scylla at riseup.net> wrote:

> We explicitly told the participants in the design team meeting that we
> needed to get buy-in from all the collectives and get the delegates
> approval that Becoming Omni will make decisions for the Omni as a whole. In
> response the group created an "inreach" working group called "Working
> Within the System", which at the moment is Yar and Joel, to take
> responsibility for this. You may have missed these parts of the meeting,
> Robb. They have begun going to the collectives' meetings.
> Also, Tomorrow an email is going out on the discuss listserv with
> information about the working groups that have formed and inviting anyone
> to join them.
>
> Laura
>
> I changed the thread name.
>
> On 8/27/15 3:12 PM, Robb Anonymous wrote:
>
> should prolly have started a new thread for this
>
> do the becoming omni facilitators plan to make it clear to the
> participants that the collectives' delegates will have to get approval from
> their collectives in order for any substantial change to take place on the
> ground at the omni? how do they plan on informing the collectives' members
> who do not attend as to the progress of the process?
> thx
> ~r
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 2:10 PM, yar <yardenack at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 2:34 PM, niki <niki.shelley at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > It's my understanding that this process could potentially result in a
>> more
>> > top-down restructuring of the management of the Omni with little to no
>> > required buy-in from the individual collectives.
>>
>> Just to be very clear, this is an open-ended process where nothing is
>> pre-ordained, which will depend entirely on who shows up and what they
>> want. If people show up wanting to turn Omni into a Kafkaesque
>> dystopia, then yes, that could "potentially" be the result. But I
>> doubt it.
>>
>
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