Re: [ALSC-Forum] Fwd: role of At-Large - At-large Organizing Committee

[Eric Dierker]

I certainly agree with this and hope that it will come to pass.

Are there any decenters amoung us?  I would be quite interested in hearing 
a justification for an opposing view if there is one.

Sincerely,
Eric

> 
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 21:31:43 -0400, you wrote:
> 
>>This was a pretty interesting note.   I think the proposal for a
>>decentralized at large is appealing.  Jamie
> 
> I think that a decentralized at large is the only way it could be - you
> cannot think of having the same top-down structure imposed to the whole
> world. There are tons of different cultures, languages,
>societies, jobs, political ideas... out there, and tons of different
>ways to discuss and decide (e-mail, web, physical meetings...). Each
>group should be able to self-organize on a manageable size, and then you
>should only have a light structure at the centre, that serves as
>collector of the opinions of all groups and weighs them up to a
> consensus.
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