My intention in setting up this page is to have a place where we can put issues as they come up that can be dealt with later, but we don't want to forget. So these are some questions I am aware of (some of which are being answered as we go). Please feel free to add more questions and offer your thoughts on how you would like these questions answered.--Diane Schurr 13:33, 4 Dec 2006 (MST)

Sabo sez: Before we can answer these questions, we need a common understanding about what this community is, which is part of the vision. This is hard to describe - I've written and erased this a few times now... Let's consider two aspects of our mission, recognising that to meet our mission we need to balance our energy, focus and priority between creating a community for ourselves and serving the greater Reclaiming/activist community.

At one end of the spectrum, we could put all of our energy, focus and priority into creating a community for ourselves. We could still accomplish the service aspects of our mission by creating a healing center, but wouldn't include other people in our community.

At the other end of the spectrum, we could put all of our energy, focus and priority into serving the greater Reclaiming/activist community. We would still create a community for ourselves, but our focus would really be on creating a community for others.

The closer we are to focusing on building a community for ourselves, the more we will relate to supporters as a pool of potential members and interested friends. The closer we are to creating a center for the greater Reclaiming/activist community, the more we will relate to supporters as co-creators of the community, reserving only those aspects of community-formation that entail financial risk for the members.

As a group, we are between those extremes, so we will need to figure out in which aspects we are more to one side or the other. Once we figure that out, deciding what to do about different policy issues will be easier to decide. Until then, we will have apples vs. oranges arguments without surfacing our underlying individual assumptions. --Sabo 20:02, 6 Dec 2006 (MST)

How do we really engage the Supporters in the Community-formation process?

What other catagories do we need?

The suggestion was made at the Kansas City Meeting that we create an "inactive" member catagory for members who want to leave the group but retain some linkage.

Who can read and/or modify what sections of this wiki?

(This is also being discussed atWikicontent)

Until we have advanced software, all parts of the wiki (except for things added under the "discussion" tab) will be visible to anyone who finds our wiki. Only people given an account (at this point, only the members) will be able to edit the wiki and view comments made under the discussion tab for each page. Some pages can be made uneditable by anyone (such as agreements that have been made).