IRC Meeting: Discuss the future of iCommons
There has been some great debate about the governance of iCommons, in particular the articles by Tom Chance from Remix Reading and Free Culture U.K.; Judy Breck from goldenswamp.com and Becky Hogge from OpenDemocracy.
As we said in the final session of the Summit, iCommons is a new organisation and is committed to developing a structure that fits the needs and wishes of iCommoners. We would therefore like to invite you all to participate in a meeting tomorrow on the icommons irc channel to discuss the possibility of an iCommons Community Council. We have scheduled two times to try and deal with different time zones. We know its really soon but we would really like to get your input as soon as possible so that we can move this forward. So please meet us at:
GMT 8.00-9.30am on Thursday 13th OR
GMT 9.00-10.30pm on Thursday 13th
We really want everyone to be able to ask the questions they have and to talk about their concerns, but most important is that we come up with a constructive way forward. As all of you know, it is sometimes a lot easier to criticize than to build something, and we’re hoping that as many builders as possible will be at the meetings to talk about their ideas. Find the agenda here and feel free to add any resource materials, notes, suggestions etc.
We’ll be holding the meeting on the ‘icommons’ irc channel on irc.freenode.net. For help on how to use IRC, go to http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/new2irc.html.
The Chairman of iCommons, Joi Ito and I will be coordinating discussions and we hope to be joined by as many of the board as possible.
Please come and share your ideas! We have an amazing opportunity to build this organisation into something we’re all very proud of.