[p2p-research] Fwd: important message to all p2p foundation sympathizers

[Michel Bauwens]

Hi Dan,

we had pretty intense f2f communication before, but it didn't work for me, I
felt I was always the losing party in the private communication space, so
this 'mess' is the result of that ... of course, I'm sure at some point alex
and I will be able to talk again in a more relaxed manner, but perhaps not
exactly tomorrow ...

thanks for your patience!!

we've tried to have several list in the past, one for internal discussions,
one for topical discussions ...

if we can find moderators for the former, perhaps it could work now that
people are more energized .. but of course the price to pay is that fewer
people will be aware of the governance issues and possibilities of input,

I'm open to retrying the former, but the list needs moderators, if only to
solve the minor technical issues which always surface ..

Michel

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Dan Brickley <danbri at danbri.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Michel Bauwens
> <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear friends,
> >
> > I can imagine that most of you find some of the squabbles of the list
> tedious, and have not been following it in detail.
>
> Yup.
>
> This might seem terribly retro, but my recommendation would be that
> the two of you pick up the phone, or better sit down face to face, and
> sort out your differences using non-textual communication. Sorry if
> this seems patronising or stating the obvious, but hey... Try working
> on the assumption of mutual good faith, and figure out the basic
> elements of a compromise solution - maybe starting with the least
> emotionally charged topics, if you can even agree on what they are.
> Markup complexity is not a black-and-white topic, so perhaps you could
> start there?
>
> I don't know either of you, I don't know whether you know each other
> yet offline, or much of the backstory. I signed up to the list since
> seeing a promising mention of the project in some presentation slides
> recently, and have been skimming these distressed and upset-sounding
> mails on and off for the last few weeks. Maybe your collaborative
> relationship is unsalvageable, but I'd like to hear you've both tried
> actually speaking to each other before seeing my inbox fill up last
> resort discussions about wiki duplication and master passwords...
>
> Good luck,
>
> Dan
>
> (btw I'm paying per megabyte to download these threads thanks to the
> magic of 3G USB :)
>
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