Loomio
Sun 4 Nov 2012 9:37PM

What resources do we need to open this Loomio group up to all?

DS Danyl Strype Public Seen by 12

Since we have called this group a "General Assembly", I'd like follow the GA process and guidelines as much as possible. The first, and arguably the most important guideline, is that GAs are open to any and all participants who are willing to respect the process (listen to others, make constructive comments, seek consensus not conquest etc).

At the same time we don't want to lionize the resources of our filoi at Loom.io, by inviting more people than their server or their software can handle. What do we need to increase the number of participants this group can accomodate?

DS

Danyl Strype Mon 17 Dec 2012 11:56AM

@richardd.bartlett
BTW on CoActivate, projects distinguish between people who have been invited, and those who have confirmed their membership. Unconfirmed invitees can only be seen by admins. That could be a good way to keep the numbers down on groups, while allowing open invites.

DS

Danyl Strype Mon 17 Dec 2012 12:54PM

Just idly thinking that one-verb names snappy, and agile, but maybe Assemble is a better buzzword for what we are doing than Occupy?

RDB

Richard D. Bartlett Mon 17 Dec 2012 7:13PM

@strypey yeah we're going to be refactoring the invitation system in the near future. right now invites are in the users table = no good.

DS

Danyl Strype Tue 1 Apr 2014 7:36AM

I understand there are plans to add a feature to Loomio which would allow discussions to include people from multiple groups. Once this is in place, we could look at having a Loomio group for each region in the country, for local discussions, then have country-wide discussions by inviting in each of those groups.

Another way to deal with the "Dunbar's number" limit is to use spokescouncils, where representatives are nominated to speak for their group in larger meetings, on a recallable basis (not like an elected rep with a fixed term of power).