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[Andy Copland]

lol - I know a way but it is not so much online as a way of arriving at a
combined understanding.

It is used in generating values for large organisations and runs through a
series of interviews, open questionnaires, workshops before arriving at core
issues - you can use technology to facilitate it - but it needs people to
make it work! (For you John this is a qualitative approach rather than a
quantitative approach and is very very powerful :-)

it might be a little heavy handed for here :-)

I vote for a drink down a pub or a coffee meet during a lunchtime to thrash
out what people want/need.

For me a lug is about social connections between people with a common
interest - although I couldn't care less about linux - I just love
technology - any size shape or colour (preferably tiny, curved and black or
silver though).

I use CentOS where it is appropriate, OpenBSD where it makes sense and
Windows most other places cause I don't have time to mess around setting
things up. I love the opensource tools out there - but that is so much more
than linux nowadays. I think lug is abit of a misnomer in todays world.- tug
or gug might be better (technology or geek :-)

I would say just my tuppence worth but I think I am upto around ten pence
today.

Andy

2008/8/1 John Allsopp <john at johnallsopp.co.uk>

> David Knight wrote:
>
>> I am in business and I have a mission statement which I and all staff are
>> aware of. What is this groups mission statement?
>>
> Perhaps more usefully, this sort of question comes up often, along with
> "shall we redesign the website", and there doesn't seem to be a mechanism to
> reach a decision between us. Sit and chat? That's down to who turns up and
> who has the most forceful personality on the night. I just wonder, actually,
> whether there's anything in open source that might help structure a decision
> making process like that. Might be interesting if there is. Or might it be
> too complex?
>
> Or does anyone know a good way of doing it? *
>
> Or shall we just go:
>
> 1: everybody who's interested come up with a mission statement
> 2: we all get to vote by spreading, say, five points between the candidate
> statements
> 3: we take the winner and see if there's anything in those that came second
> and third we can use to make a super statement.
>
> Then we see if we're happy with the outcome.
>
> J
> * collective, fair decision making processes that might work online is one
> of my hobby horses
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