[MEI-L] CfP MEI Strategy Development Group

[Benjamin Wolff Bohl]

Dear List:eners,
as mentioned before, in my personal report from the MEI Council Meeting 
at Mainz, MEI has to find new structures for future community 
development and participation.
Having proposed to initialize formation of this group I hereby invite 
everyone to join the efforts of

> A *Strategy Development Group*
>
> assigned to come up with proposals for a new organization of MEI. This 
> group should represent the complete MEI Community, including delegates 
> from peer groups that might not be involved at the moment. For this 
> reason, it was proposed to use MEI-L to gather interested parties for 
> this basically open group.
> For practical reasons, an initial group of volunteers was set up, 
> which consists of:
> - Axel Teich Geertinger,
> - Laurent Pugin, (@Laurent: as you were proposed while shortly absent, 
> is this your will?)
> - Christine Siegert, and
> - Benjamin W. Bohl.
>
> **Call for Participation** Anyone interested in joining this group 
> please communicate this by replying to this message via MEI-L.
> If there are no objections I would like to volunteer for coordinating 
> the formation of this group during this initial phase.
>
> The preliminary schedule for this group is to draft at least two 
> proposals for future organization of the MEI Community within the next 
> year; bringing these proposals to discussion both in MEI Council and 
> MEI Community, for decision.
> It was agreed, that transparency and avoidance of bureaucratic 
> overhead should be essential features of new structures, and democracy 
> and participatory aspects should be considered likewise, but without 
> neglecting efficient and simple structures. This might include careful 
> reconsideration of the current structures (MEI Council and MEI 
> Technical Team) that nevertheless have proved to be very helpful and 
> effective fostering the interest of MEI Community and bringing it to 
> ist current shape.
> It was also agreed that once new structures and forms of organizing 
> MEI Community should be established, these would be examined after a 
> number of years, with the option to revert or change to a different model.

If you are interested in joining this group and developing strategies 
for the future of MEI, please contact me directly. A Mailinglist for 
internal discussions of this group will be available shortly and I'd be 
happy to send you an invitation to the list.

Best regards,
Benjamin

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