Recruit an initial leadership team

That's fine with me. I was just concerned seeing that the active proposals for coordinators all referred to male names. I think for any role with authority and visibility, gender parity is important. Especially when we can certainly achieve it within our community.

I totally agree with Nathan. The group needs racial and gender identification parity from the beginning, or it will be lost in the long run.

To speak to @ntnsndr point - I think we will need to have generated a minimum number of active participants in their various channels of discussion before anyone with a real leadership role can be chosen.

I would advise that we stick with the 'coordinator' role, which is limited to getting the discussion channels up and running, and being prepared to hand these over once we hit a critical mass.

Agreed. And the longer we put off inclusivity, the harder it will be to accomplish. And I am happy to step down from the coordinator role and operate more as a supporter and advocate for this effort. Whatever y'all think. As I said elsewhere, I think others' skill sets are better suited for making this work than mine, though I'm happy to be of use wherever I can be.

@ntnsndr I think you are uniquely placed to be a co-ordinator, in the minimalist sense I suggest. Given your profile in the movement in general, and that you really shot the starting gun on the #buytwitter idea.

This role might really come down to encouraging and recruiting as diverse a range of individuals to come join the group, and take up leadership roles. :)

Hi. I was introduced to this fascinating initiative (and to Loomio - so bear with me) by Suresh Fernando in Vancouver.

I'm based in Scotland, and have thrirty years experience of development & regulation of markets & finnancial instruments including six years as a Director of what is now the biggest global energy exchange. But I'm better now, and am a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Security & Resilience Studies at University College London.

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/isrs/about/fellows/ChrisCook

Here I am conducting action-based research - at the request of the ISRS founder, a former UK Defence Minister - into how to create a networked financial system that does not come two hours away from the ATMs being switched off, as ours did in October 2008.

I believe firstly that a Platform Co-operative - a Co-op of Co-ops, if you like - provides an optimal solution for all utilities with the correct funding instrument (which is neither debt nor equity as we know it), and secondly that Twitter 2.0 potentially has a major and unique role to play as part of the generic market utility/payment infrastructure I think of as 'NewClear'.

Anyway, enough from me. I think I can help with global legal architecture, and with transitional/transformational (development) finance, followed by long-term stakeholder funding which will give existing investors an optimal exit should they wish.

Apologies for going on at such length.

Welcome @chriscook1 ... glad you're here ;-)

My pleasure @sureshfernando

And I am happy to step down from the coordinator role and operate more as a supporter and advocate for this effort. Whatever y'all think.

I think that's a terrible idea. :-)

As I said elsewhere, I think others' skill sets are better suited for making this work than mine, though I'm happy to be of use wherever I can be.

What you have is the vision. That's the crucial piece that ties together everyone else's skills and Megazords them into a mightier-than-the-sum synergistic whole. Don't underestimate that.

I think you are uniquely placed to be a co-ordinator, in the minimalist sense I suggest. Given your profile in the movement in general, and that you really shot the starting gun on the #buytwitter idea.

This role might really come down to encouraging and recruiting as diverse a range of individuals to come join the group, and take up leadership roles.

Yes! Let's be clear: "coordinator" is just Loomio's word for the group secretary. Sorry for distracting us by focusing on that. IMO, the key ingredient to this group's success is relational leadership, not positional authority.

Personally, I am looking to you for direction, @ntnsndr. "Objective journalism, this is not." ;-)

Okay, well I won't belabor it. And I'm all for not dwelling on leadership stuff and getting to work. But to the extent that we do have leadership in any explicit way (such as Loomio coordinators), it needs to be diverse.