<div dir="ltr">lol - I know a way but it is not so much online as a way of arriving at a combined understanding.<br><br>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 :-)<br>
<br>it might be a little heavy handed for here :-)<br><br>I vote for a drink down a pub or a coffee meet during a lunchtime to thrash out what people want/need.<br><br>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).<br>
<br>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 :-)<br>
<br>I would say just my tuppence worth but I think I am upto around ten pence today.<br><br>Andy<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/8/1 John Allsopp <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@johnallsopp.co.uk">john@johnallsopp.co.uk</a>></span><br>
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I am in business and I have a mission statement which I and all staff are aware of. What is this groups mission statement?<br>
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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?<br>
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Or does anyone know a good way of doing it? *<br>
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Or shall we just go:<br>
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1: everybody who's interested come up with a mission statement<br>
2: we all get to vote by spreading, say, five points between the candidate statements<br>
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.<br>
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Then we see if we're happy with the outcome.<br>
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* collective, fair decision making processes that might work online is one of my hobby horses<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Andy Copland<br><a href="mailto:andy.copland@gmail.com">andy.copland@gmail.com</a><br>mobile: +44 (0) 7970 267 882<br>
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