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Facilitation

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Resources on Facilitation

Guidelines

Please treat our mailing lists as a place of respectful conversation. Our lists have moderators to ensure civility. Moderators review the posts of all new members before approving them to post automatically. Some existing members may be placed into moderation if their posting pattern changes such that it violates our list guidelines (see below):

When posting to Public Lab lists:

    1. Stay on topic
    - stay on topic to make long threads easier to follow
    - if you diverge from the main thread/topic/subject, consider breaking off into a new thread/topic/subject to help others follow along
    - avoid sending one-line spurious responses that effectively "spam" hundreds of people and lowers the overall content quality of a conversation
    2. Mind your tone
    - since we are in a conversation in email form, maintaining a tone of respect is essential. Any of the following can result in a member having their posts moderated before going out to the whole list: aggressive tone, disrespectful tone, mocking tone, off-color tone
    - a note on humor: expressing ourselves online in text is different from expressing ourselves in person by talking

Before you are placed into moderation, you will be notified on the pertinent list.

References: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Etiquette,
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Community_Code_of_Conduct_(Draft)
https://hackpad.com/HOT-Code-1X2acHIN2HX

Resources on Facilitation

Types of Facilitation

Rough Ideas

Flat leadership can be great for innovation and interaction. However, some events may be controversial and require mediators and facilitators to provide a forum for reaching consensus.

Consensus is desired, but may not be obtained. What will be our process then? How will we voice dissenting views?
Many other methods exist for approaching difficult decisons. Could we approach consensus by region, mailing group, organizers, Robert's Rules of Order, etc.?