Building Community
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
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.
- Voting: Is it as evil as people say?
- 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.