Project: Guerrilla Manifesto/Petition

@ntnsndr @arminsteuernagel1 @tommcdonough

love the collaborative manifesto -- a video to promote this and the concept in gerneral would be powerful. Happy to write some ideas up over the coming days. As for framing...

#OwnTwitter
#OurTwitter

...Or something. We can hammer out over a call / vote later.

Was a timeline discussed? Are you guys feeling urgency to keep momoentum up?

Hi all, I'm a group (& Loomio) newcomer. I see things are moving fast, which is excellent. I'm trying to get myself up to speed- but in my exploration of the threads I've not seen much said about internationalisation of the effort.

Twitter is a very international platform, with support for various languages and scripts. So let's make sure to open the door to users of different languages. We'll need to reach out to people that can translate the manifesto & materials.

Let's move quickly, @tristancopleysmith. Let's aim to get some draft done by the end of the weekend, share it, and then be able to start working on a video next week.

@priscillagrim any thoughts on this? I feel like you might...

Also, @arminsteuernagel1, can you clarify your suggestion for targeting shareholders? Perhaps when people sign the petition, they could say how many shares they have? And whether they're willing to do what with proxies? cc: @tommcdonough

Nathan, offering shareholders to commit their voting rights to us is legally very easy...they just need to sign a contract with us. But for the time being I would make this commitment not formal, they should just say that they will in case we have more than 10% or shares committed. Only if we have more than 10% we can do anything so below that there is now point to do the bureaucracy.....You know what I mean? @tommcdonough as far as I know just letting them commit their shares in a non formal way is not a legal action and thus will not lead to any problems for us.

The great upside of asking shareholders for their voting rights is: it makes the whole manifesto more serious, more dangerous for people who want to sell Twitter...it is the provocation we need:)

@rebeccagarnett thanks for the hashtag suggestion. I just added it to the bottom of the document.

Okay, @rebeccagarnett @arminsteuernagel1 @tommcdonough (and others)! I'd love a bit more input about what we should be asking people to do. I'd like what we ask of people to be
a) easy enough for anyone to do
b) significant enough to make a statement
c) a form of on-boarding to the cooperative, even with a low level of commitment such as (a) would require.

Here are some of the options of what people could sign up for:
* Simple support for this statement as twitter users (and we could add them to an email list about the co-op)
* Commitment to transfer voting rights to the co-op (we'd have to set up the proper contract)
* Pledge of a certain investment in the co-op (which could be tricky if we run into securities law in a bad way)

Any ideas of other potential outcomes? Or any preferences among the ones I've mentioned here?

I've set up a #manifesto channel in Slack.

Easiest way forward would probably be for a small group of people ready to start working on this to just go for it, and then come back with a draft for others to comment on. A lot easier to react to something than engage with a blank possibility. I definitely support those who have a vision for a manifesto to move forward. If you bring the draft back and make a Loomio proposal about it, you'll likely get good engagement.

Yes, makes sense. Maybe I'll continue throwing ideas out in the Slack channel. If anyone wants an invite to that, let me know!

Okay, I've gone ahead and done it. Just drafted a manifesto sketch, looking for feedback and edits. It's in the #manifesto channel in Slack. Let me know if you need an invite.

How about posting it as a proposal here? As in "approve this draft of the manifesto"? If you don't think it's quite there yet, all the more reason to propose it so people have something to argue against :)