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[John Allsopp]

Aye, for me, social and beer excuse is one, but the real 'killer app' 
has been support.

J

Andy Copland wrote:
> lol - I know a way but it is not so much online as a way of arriving 
> at a combined understanding.
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> 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 :-)
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> 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 :-)
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> I would say just my tuppence worth but I think I am upto around ten 
> pence today.
>
> Andy
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> 2008/8/1 John Allsopp <john at johnallsopp.co.uk 
> <mailto:john at johnallsopp.co.uk>>
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>     David Knight wrote:
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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?
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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?
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>     Or does anyone know a good way of doing it? *
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>     Or shall we just go:
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>     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.
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>     Then we see if we're happy with the outcome.
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>     J
>     * collective, fair decision making processes that might work
>     online is one of my hobby horses
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> Andy Copland
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