{"id":165,"date":"2004-12-02T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-02T11:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2004-12-02T11:38:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-02T11:38:00","slug":"creating-a-governing-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"Creating a Governing Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESG is putting together a &#8220;steering committee&#8221; that will probably replace CICDO as its main community (staff and student) governing body.  We&#8217;re putting together our rules of operation now&#8211; if anyone wants a good challenge, try defining the rules of a government.<\/p>\n<p>I believe strongly in consensus decision-making; I think it&#8217;s the only way to fully value dissent and minority opinion.  Other methods sacrifice this for efficiency.  So I wanted to come up with a solution that got both without being game-able.  I think I got something that mostly values dissent and is only somewhat game-able.  Take a look at my suggested <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/jrising\/groups\/esg\/steersop.txt\">steering committee operating procedure<\/a>&#8212; I&#8217;m interested in any other ideas that are out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESG is putting together a &#8220;steering committee&#8221; that will probably replace CICDO as its main community (staff and student) governing body. We&#8217;re putting together our rules of operation now&#8211; if anyone wants a good challenge, try defining the rules of a government. I believe strongly in consensus decision-making; I think it&#8217;s the only way to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=165\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Creating a Governing Body<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}