Trying out the new system

[Laurel Hagen]

As a few people have noticed, the new system has been activated. For now,
the only people that can post directly to this list are me, and any
subcommittee leaders that ask to be. Right now, those other list
administrators are Kaki Hunter (foodies) and Kevin FitzGerald (energy).
Other subcommittee leaders that want to be able to post, let me know and
I'll hook you up.

Anyone else who wants to post something, just email it to me or another at
[hidden email] (or at the address this email is coming from, since
google groups won't post my email address straight out).

Again, below I appended the criteria we voted on originally. We are just
trying this out--we'll review this to see how it's going in a month or two,
and go back to the old system if we want to.

Keep in mind that, unless your message is directly relevant to local
sustainability, it may be as much as a week before it gets posted in a
weekly digest.


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Here's how the new system, the newsletter/message board would work:

1. All posts would be given to the moderator, and she¹d be responsible for
judging whether they should go straight to the group, or for condensing them
into "weekly digest" emails. The moderator would be the only person that can
send to the list.

The list would still be open to all to read on the internet, and all to
submit posts. The moderator would not actually be writing them, just passing
them along. However, this would eliminate CSSers¹ ability to reply to the
list with casual comments on an item. You can decide if you like that change
or not. This system would probably bring the number of posts down to 15 or
so a week.


2. Proposed criteria for posting to the list:
   
A. Announcements of events directly related to sustainability and
localization go straight out to the list. (Examples include the Youth
Garden's agriculture/husbandry/hunting classes, sustainable building tours
and workshops, informational talks on peak oil or climate change, or a City
Council vote on a chicken-keeping ordinance).

B. News items directly related to sustainability and localization (such as
an article on new wind farm technology, a congressional vote on solar power
subsidies, a study of the effects of climate change on elk hunting) would be
condensed into a weekly digest. This would be a once-a-week email with all
the stories' titles and links to the full text. Any short comments the
submitter wanted to add would be put next to the link.

C. Lance Christie gets his own weekly digest, if he wants it. (Hope you're
recovering nicely, Lance!) Anyone else who comes up with the amount of
wonderful information that Lance does can have their own digest too.

D. Substantive analysis by locals of any issues, votes, philosophies,
policies, political candidates etc. as they relate to sustainability and
localization would go straight out to the list. (Examples include a
discussion of the effects of Lion¹s Back or Cloudrock on Moab¹s groundwater,
a comparison of Obama¹s and McCain¹s renewable energy proposals, report on
soil amendment strategies in Castle Valley, or an argument as to why
anarcho-capitalism is better for Moab agriculture than state-sponsored
syndicalism). General articles or opinion pieces by non-locals on these
topics would go into the news digest.

E. Announcements of community events NOT directly related to sustainability
and localization would be allowed, but would be condensed into their own
weekly digest. (Examples include Planning Commission meetings on a
development proposal, arts and cultural festivals, candidate forums, indie
films on freeing Tibet,  or concerts). This puts us up to three possible
digests a week.

F. Anything that doesn¹t fit into these categories would be rejected.
(Examples include articles mocking the ineptitude of Sarah Palin, reports on
the kick-ass rapids in Westwater this spring, a theory that Randy Day is
secretly in charge of the Earth Liberation Front, invitations to vote in
online polls, or ³reply all² type emails that say ³Thanks for all the great
information on the upcoming role of fungi in new home construction,
Lance!²).
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