[Imc-fiscalissue] post-steering query

[Zachary C. Miller]

Cool. Thanks! 

David Gehrig wrote:
> Zach -- the statement was well-received, and there were only two
> issues that kept us from consensing on it.  First, it was a very
> sparsely attended meeting -- less than a dozen, considerably fewer
> than attended the previous meeting --  and we didn't have a
> quorum of working groups.
> 
> Secondly, we want to give Sascha -- whose connectivity is
> sporadic, I understand -- a chance to comment as well.
> 
> There was a general sense that the statement should be
> released just as soon as possible.  So -- if I understand what
> happened right -- we're considering it as consensed on but
> rather than giving the usual week for a response from
> working groups who weren't there to raise concerns, we're
> giving it two weeks.
> 
> There were _no_ concerns about the text itself, only about
> process.
> 
> @%<
> 
> On Jun 4, 2005, at 6:52 PM, Zachary C. Miller wrote:
> 
> > Could someone who was at steering clue me into why nothing was
> > specifically consensed upon regarding our proposals? Was it that there
> > weren't enough people? Were there significant concerns about our text?
> > Had people not gotten the emails with the proposed text? Was there not
> > enough time in the agenda to discuss these items? Was it that there
> > weren't spokes from all the working groups?
> >
> > I'm not saying it's a bad thing or that anything was done wrong, I'm
> > just missing context from the minutes about what actually kept these
> > proposals from going through.
> >
> > I'd kind of (perhaps overly optimistically) hoped that we'd get
> > consensus (or if not, then a list of concerns to address) on the
> > statement of apology so that we could get it published globally and be
> > done with it. I hope that in two weeks we can actually make this
> > happen and not face a bunch of new concerns out of the blue at that
> > meeting.
> >
> > If there were concerns at the meeting I'd especially like to know what
> > those were.
> >
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 Social Justice, Community, Nonviolence, Decentralization, Feminism,
 Sustainability, Responsibility, Diversity, Democracy, Ecology