Tue 22 May 2018 8:15AM
Appropriate use of Working Groups
Mayel de Borniol
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I would like to see some meta discussion on the use of our working group structure, I have the feeling that too many important discussions are being confined to a small number of people within one working group or other. For example, the 3 threads currently at the top of the Governance / Legal WG (see attached screenshot) seem like critical conversations for the whole membership to weight in on (also my impression was that the scope of that particular WG was to be researching legal/bureaucratic aspects of social.coop as an organisation, but not to be a governing comittee).
Matt Noyes · Sun 10 Jun 2018 10:00PM
I think the way to increase participation is through one-on-one communication with members. People organizing rank-and-file groups in labor unions have created a good tool for this called the Member to Member network. It is like a phone tree, but instead of using it to promote a message or do a survey, you use it to get to know people and build communication. It takes an initial organizing group to plan and get it started.