@lestatisticien - I share your concerns and add a third question. When you say, "creating the image that this is a collaborative project," you imply that it really is not collaborative and will never be. Are all "organizations" inevitably "ruled" by the original members? I have run away from a number of Steemit communities which had very rigid membership rules. One such community actually had a "membership application" which could not be viewed before beginning the application process. So I asked one of the members about making the application visible so that anyone who might consider joining the group would know what questions will be asked. The member declined to answer and disappeared. The group was organized around a rather innocuous general interest, "philosophy and the humanities." Now what, I wondered, might be the "membership requirements" of such a group? The ability to think? ("Cogito ergo sum"?) The ability to breathe? (Yes, I am still alive at the moment.) The ability to recognize BS? Bingo.
If @gaman 's project becomes "too well organized," too structured, too exclusive, too elitist, the criteria for membership might defeat the purpose.
Good morning from Canada sarahspeaks144!
Thank you for your comment.
I just want to say that I was not asserting that at this time the project is not collaborative and will not be collaborative in the future. My remarks were stimulated by an impression in @gaman’s text that he was envisaging new members coming in to join an organization that he was running to the degree that strategies, terms of reference, etc. would be set largely by him.
I certainly apologize to him if I’m totally wrong in having this image; but I think it is important to signal now that there are people who might want to be very active in the project but who also want to have a management structure that is explicitly collaborative.
@lestatisticien - Canada? I love Canada! A very long time ago I slipped two and a half toes just past the edge of Canada from the Michigan side. We were there for less than an hour, just long enough to learn to speak "Canadian," eh?
Of course you're right about membership participation, and I've also sent a quick note to Gaman requesting clarification. I'm sure that when he has time, he'll get back to us. After all, we don't want to begin by kissing the Queen's boot (as much as we love her).
Quite!