Building Community

Subjects to explore (eventually...)

• User Right-to-Leave: How beholden to any member is UFOP?
• Democracy in UFOP: Is there any? Should there be?
  • Voting: Is it as evil as people say?
    • Fair Process: A focus all communities need to have.
  • Backroom Decisions: Where they occur in UFOP, and the effects.
    • Open Process: The implications.
• Importance of Online Identity: A stable identity online affects how we form relationships with other users.
• Building Stronger Community: "Barnraising," public venues of discussion, and so on.
  • Radical Inclusiveness: What it means, what it does.
• The Dark Side of Community: Cliquishness, Elitism, Rumor, "Us and Them."
• Conflict Resolution: Why we need to work on it.
  • The Conflict Paradox: Not seeing the forest for the trees.
• How a Group is its own Worst Enemy: Shirky's famous lecture and its meaning.
• Vested Contributers: Who are they? Can we make more?
• Community Security: Why we don't have enough of it, and how we can do better.