Hi Paul,

Just wait for about one to two weeks for an announcement from Squeak Online. We have been working on an organization that fully addresses all of the items in your list except 3.

Cheers

Squeak Online team
mailto:info at squeakonline.com

Paul Fernhout wrote:

> Tim Rowledge wrote:
> >
> > This is my personal suggestion for somethings the Squeak Foundation
> > could do for us.
> > [Losts of good ideas snipped]
>
> I'd suggest anyone interested in defining or participating in the Squeak
> Foundation take a look at Dee Hock's Chaordic Alliance web site.
>   http://www.chaordic.org
>
> Dee Hock defines "chaordic" as "the behavior of any self-governing
> organism, organization, or system which harmoniously blends
> characteristics of order and chaos." I'd suggest this both describes
> Squeak's evolution as a population of images (made of objects) and what
> we would want from an organization that helps support that continued
> evolution.
>
> Dee Hock created VISA and has recently written a book "Birth of the
> Chaordic Age" on this topic. In particular, consider the chaordic
> approach for defining a chaordic organization.
>   http://www.chaordic.org/what_des.html
>
> Here is the brief outline of how to create a chaordic organization (see
> the web page for details):
>
> 1. Create a statement of purpose
>
> 2. Define a set of principles
>
> 3. Identify all participants
>
> 4. Create a new organizational concept (just, equitable, effective)
>
> 5. Write a constitution
>
> 6. Foster innovative practices
>
> [These steps may seem obvious when stated, but all too many
> organizations ignore one or more of them.]
>
> Anyone (besides me) care to write up ideas on at at least one, two, and
> three as a reply to this after reading the Chaordic web pages or Dee's
> book? If no one does, I can post a follow-up with my own take on these
> answers in a couple of days but I would like to see other people's
> comments first. Obviously, the point of this exercise is to establish
> some sort of rough consensus -- so the Squeak Foundation is not just on
> person's vision, but instead is both broad enough to gain widespread
> support and yet specific enough to accomplish something and be taken
> seriously.
>
> -Paul Fernhout
> Kurtz-Fernhout Software
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