Community development at the roots of society - in NZ

We do this already in smaller political parties but it only works well when some rather big issue like TPPA or Seabed & Foreshore grabs everyone's attention! Most people shrug, get on with their lives and leave the activism to a few dedicated people who struggle to get traction. I've been involved in protests that took considerable effort to organize but fewer people turned up to the event than to the planning meeting. If anyone's got a way to solve that - please share it!

The Rojava kurds have a well designed all inclusive societal neighborhood assembly system. There was the semblance of community assemblies that emerged in the occupy movement. As Alan already mentioned, a number of political parties also regularly meet in a similar fashion. It was also mentioned that similar frameworks may have emerged in south America and other places. Will link in articles when I have time to search.

I propose for example, that as a pilot trial of such a system, that neighborhood assembly meetings could be held once every 28 days starting from the first Monday of April each year. This will result in 13 meetings over the course of each annum, with the 13th and final meeting being held on a Monday in the first half of March (the Monday which lies in 3rd-10th March each year), before the annual cycle resets and restarts at the beginning of April.

Perhaps moving the meeting date to a following Monday for any instance where it may conflict with a statutory holiday that may occur on the same Monday in a given year, e.g. Waitangi Day

There could be a range of venues that could be employed to host meetings in each hood of neighbors - from community centers, to marae, faith-based community facilities, public or private meeting spaces or any other venue that can serve as a place to host meetings/hui/fono/assemblies

Neighbourhood assemblies would actually also serve to more fully realise a sense of building up a deeper aspect of tino rangatiratanga occurring in every neighborhood, and formally endorsed and recognised by govt

Sorted. The GitLab account has been created and is now free for anyone to begin populating it with documents and contributing to development of formal policy outlines.
Looks like the interface is much smoother, simpler and easier to understand the workflow than GitHub too

A couple of thoughtful discourse pieces.
Will also link a few articles of leadership examples on neighborhood assemblies from a variety of other kinds of communities as well soon.
•History of democracy and the Baha'i Faith
•The Baha'i expression of neighborhood assemblies
•Wiki article of Baha'i perspective on neighbourhood assembly functions

@williamasiata, @strypey and others,
I would suggest LikeInMind knowledge network for systemic and systematic co-working in the direction of your and our choice. It would be great if we joined our efforts in building a better world.
LikeInMind is a Collective Intelligence platform where relevant knowledge is interconnected into a network for the best possible findability, discoverability and reuse.
"We connect people by connecting their knowledge"
As the example, please take a look on the "slow reading" of the Creative Commons in New Zealand:
http://confocal-manawatu.pbworks.com/w/page/106515852/A%20Quiet%20Revolution%3A%20Growing%20Creative%20Commons%20in%20Aotearoa%20New%20Zealand

What would be the advantage of using LikeinMind over a GIT-based system?