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Re: may I suggest 3 stages
"That is the the purpose for which you are called hither.Called, I say, though I have not called you to me ,strangers from distant lands . You have come and are here met, in this very nick of time, by chance it may seem. Yet it is not so.Believe rather that it is so orderd that we who sit here ... must now find counsel..."
-Elrond Half-Elven
I couldn't resist so apropos a qoute
[even though I doctored it a bit ]
After reading the last 2 qoutes fr. the "myths transformed thread" , assumptions I thought we shared I discovered were -assumptions !<img src=eek.gif ALT=":eek">
I think the Annotated Silma. idea has merit , but at the moment the last 2 posts went up I was busy w/ this { formally at the Myth's transformed thread}
as a proposal of sorts..I am looking at the task of the forum/ council in a few different stages.
if any one shares this way of going about please 2nd it and we can keep it up for more formal consideration -if not - I will happily smite it's very existence from this site.
what do people think - do we want formal or informal - there are pro's and con's to both sides - but I think the whole matter will be so intricate that w/ out a formal process - that we have agreed on we my have a knot as complex as the one we are trying to unravel and reweave. well prob. not but
anyway:
May I suggest 3 stages
to begining this.
#1 to establish Procedures and Protocol {P&P} robert's rules o' order [or any system known -that works
and a decision on who is going to have a say{ I go into this in detail below.
{#2}preliminary Q's to be resolved BEFORE debating the drafts/texts proper. such as
the scope and legalities of the work
old narsilliion/flat earth or
work from what we can determine of JRRT's final vision.
and: thechoice of wether we shall use editorial[ that means written by us} links or not.ETC...
Between this and the white council there has been some great discussion already. and once the P&P is settled I hope to get these idea's up.
#3 the work on the drafts itself.
------------ so here are my details re: #1 so far:
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PROPOSAL A-1[a-d]
choose one or none or add idea[A1e, etc.]
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A1a"MEMBERSHIP"w/ requirements
---- I propose no restrictions on the debating and voting of the P&P 's [#1] but that voting on #2 and #3 be resricted to people who have read the relevant texts {which I C.Wraith has asked be listed for each text/discussion/ proposal}
-----A1b- ------
OPEN FORUM [no requirements or membership
{ this would allow any one who has or has NOT read the texts in question to vote -which to my mind makes no sense-yet others may have reasons for this I have not thought of.
----or A1c ---as Taimar[ assuming I have understood him aright} has suggested an editorial board of 3-4 people who would have final say as to what goes into the work and what would be left out. w/ a larger group of 15-20 to act as an advisory group---------------
proposalA1d-- I offer an amend ment to Taimars proposal { although I favor A1a} retaining his editorial board but having an open advisory board free to all who wish to click on. [he goes into detail w/later stages -so I will pass over that]
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if you want to go down this road at all please post your comments using
the A1 [a-d] system [until someone comes up w/ a better one-and if you wish to add an amendment please continue the same style of notation. A1e, etc.
thats all for now.
p.s.
after the previous 2 messages maybe people are thinking way less formally- I am more or less following up on the white council idea's which are obviously not all on this site.
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Edited by <A HREF=http://www.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_profile&u=00000076>lindil</A> at: 7/25/00 3:35:50 pm