[ogb-discuss] RFC: Emancipation Community

[John Plocher]

Nicholas Solter wrote:
>  If we don't like
> something in the constitution, let's change the constitution rather than 
> attempting creative interpretations that are clearly not the original 
> intent of the wording.


this seems like:

	while (! isOK(constitution) ) {
	    constitution = rewrite(constitution)
	    waitfor(AnnualMeeting)
	    ratify(constitution)
	    playtest(constitution)
	}

which, to me, implies attributes like "takes forever", "wordsmithing"
and "talking and arguing before doing"....

I see Simon (and those of us on the OGB) using a different algorithm, which
we articulated in http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OGB_2008/002:

         procedures = constitution
	while (! isOK(procedures) ) {
	    procedures = rewrite(procedures)
	    playtest(procedures)
	}
	waitfor(AnnualMeeting)
	ratify(procedures)
         constitution = procedures

This has attributes like "see what works before committing it to stone",
"results matter" and "try something, anything: failure is easily fixable"...

In the end, the results are the same - an effective community and a better
constitution.  The difference is that in the top algorithm, the constitution
is the most important thing; in the bottom one, it is an effective community.

   -John