Re: [gaia] How to carry on with the "manyfolks" draft

i think we should do (1): use the current feedback to revise and get
more contributors onboard. But I am not sure why you are proposing to
change the title of the doc? its like changing the original
vision/goal and from the discussions so far - i dont think thats what
the members suggested - its more about making the classification more
inclusive.

Arjuna

On 30 June 2014 10:16, Jose Saldana <jsaldana@unizar.es> wrote:
> Hi all,
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> I have tried to extract the main ideas from the discussion in the list, and
> I have built this document.
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> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/67016195/discussion_CN_def_v1.docx
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> As you can see, there are lots of contributions in the list, from people
> with wide experience.
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> In my opinion, the first problem to solve is the scope of the draft. From my
> point of view, there are three different ways:
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> 1- Writing a very broad document including
> “all-the-networks-we-are-talking-about-here”, and then classifying them.
> Community Networks would become a section of the document, and could be
> distinguished from other approaches.
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> In this case we should remove the words “Community Networks” from the title,
> and try to find a “broad name” including everything. What about a “negative
> definition”?: something similar to NGO: like “non-operator networks” or
> “non-conventional networks”. Perhaps “user-centric networks” can also fit.
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> 2- Writing a number of documents: one about community networks, other about
> FON-like networks, etc.
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> This option is really difficult: it will be impossible to find consensus
> when defining the borders between different network models.
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> 3- Assuming that this is an impossible task. Let’s forget about a
> definition.
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> I think this is not an option. The objective of GAIA is writing good
> documents about these things…
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> Jose Saldana
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