[Peace-discuss] latest draft of AWARE half-sheet introduction

[Ricky Baldwin]

This looks great, Randall!  Really great!
 
A coupl eof thoughts, if I could.  I really like the way it fits on on epage front and back without being too crammed with text.  Nice use of the headings and spacing, too.  Easy to read or just glance over for the info you want.  And I love the way it accomplished two very important goals: it gives basic info on the big ongoing projects we are working on, and it gives newcomers a sense of how AWARE works, a strange and wonderful thing that is often hard to grasp at first, I think, or so many people have said.
 
On this second aspect, is there a way do you think without significantly lengthening the section on Working Groups that we could emphasize the facts that (1) no group approval is really needed to form a working group; that (2) they basically work independently (on their own recognizance so to speak) unless they need something from the group (as in the next section on group approval for use of the shared AWARE funds or name);  and that (3) anyone is welcome to do start one any time they can get together the numbers?  Obviously my explanation is a little long-winded, as am I.
 
But to me this method has always been the essence of AWARE's greatness, its efficency and success.  I have to admit I was skeptical of it at first.  Sounded so much like a committee, and we all know how useless they can be.  But a working group is something very different, I think largely because a committee always has to come back to the group to get approval before making a move and this fosters a lack of - or dampens the development of - initiative.

Well, I don't need to preach on.  The point is, can we clarify this aspect without screwing up the great work that has already gone into this?  
 Ricky Baldwin 


"Only those who do nothing make no mistakes." - Peter Kropotkin 



----- Original Message ----
From: Randall Cotton <recotton at earthlink.net>
To: peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
Sent: Wednesday, September 3, 2008 1:19:49 PM
Subject: [Peace-discuss] latest draft of AWARE half-sheet introduction

Sorry about the truncated message I just sent inadvertently.

Attached is the latest draft that I passed out at last Sunday's meeting
(where it was well-received).Comments/suggestions/criticisms welcome
(there have been none so far). I plan on stocking our meeting room with a
bunch of these starting next Sunday (assuming no objection or major
changes).

R
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