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Latest post made by Dan Randow at 2008 Dec 04 01:33 UTC

From: Dan Randow Date: 2007 May 18 04:34 UTC Short link

Hi All,

As you may know, this Forum is managed by a steering team, who are responsible
for ensuring that the forum is active and vibrant. This means people joining
and posting, and reading the posts. It also means ensuring that people
participate within the guidelines and that the forum is managed in a
non-partisan way. The non-partisan status of the forum, and the steering team,
are essential to the forum being a place where all voices can be heard.

At present, the members of the steering team are Andrew Groom, Blair Anderson,
Lorna Szentivanyi, John Veitch, and Nicki Reece (who is replacing Ron as
Station Manager at PlainsFM). I am not on the steering team myself, but I
organise the meetings, and front and promote the forum, as well as being Forum
Manager. We still have some promotion to do, and as part of that, we are
looking for more people to be in the steering team.

Being on the steering involves a meeting once per month, some online
conversations in between those meetings, and promotional activities from time
to time. You get to have fun, learn about online participative democracy, be
more involved with your local community, and make a contribution. Although the
steering team itself is non-partisan, each member has their own leaning, of
course. The steering team achieves its non-partisan status by having as much
diversity as possible in its membership. At present, I am particularly keen to
see some representation of rural Canterbury on the steering team. We are all
urbanites, so far and this is the Canterbury, not just the Christchurch Online
Public Issues Forum.

So, if you could be interested in being in the steering team, please let me
know (by direct email).

From: nicki reece Date: 2007 May 20 21:55 UTC Short link

Hi Dan
Nicki here.
I keep seeing my name pop up as a person on the Steering team. At this point
I'm up to my ears in PFM stuff as Ron leaves on Friday. I have so much to
learn b4 he goes and can't imagine taking on any more responsibility at this
stage - even a monthly meeting is too much to contemplate.
From what Ron has said to me my involvement is as the person who oversees
the funds coming in and out of our bank account - and that's it.
And frankly - that really is all I can manage right now.

So please could you reword the message going out so it doesn't include me?
Sorry I can't be more help at this point and I don't think I'll be able to
come tonight to Arirang either. Our server is having problems and I'm going
to have to make sure tonight's programmes actually get to air.
So I may have to stick around onsite.

Regards and all the best
Nicki

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Randow, Forum Manager, Canterbury Public Issues Forum
<email obscured>]
Sent: Friday, 18 May 2007 4:36 p.m.
To: Canterbury Public Issues Forum
Subject: [Canterbury Issues] the Steering Team

Hi All,

As you may know, this Forum is managed by a steering team, who are
responsible for ensuring that the forum is active and vibrant. This means
people joining and posting, and reading the posts. It also means ensuring
that people participate within the guidelines and that the forum is managed
in a non-partisan way. The non-partisan status of the forum, and the
steering team, are essential to the forum being a place where all voices can
be heard.

At present, the members of the steering team are Andrew Groom, Blair
Anderson, Lorna Szentivanyi, John Veitch, and Nicki Reece (who is replacing
Ron as Station Manager at PlainsFM). I am not on the steering team myself,
but I organise the meetings, and front and promote the forum, as well as
being Forum Manager. We still have some promotion to do, and as part of
that, we are looking for more people to be in the steering team.

Being on the steering involves a meeting once per month, some online
conversations in between those meetings, and promotional activities from
time to time. You get to have fun, learn about online participative
democracy, be more involved with your local community, and make a
contribution. Although the steering team itself is non-partisan, each member
has their own leaning, of course. The steering team achieves its
non-partisan status by having as much diversity as possible in its
membership. At present, I am particularly keen to see some representation of
rural Canterbury on the steering team. We are all urbanites, so far and this
is the Canterbury, not just the Christchurch Online Public Issues Forum.

So, if you could be interested in being in the steering team, please let me
know (by direct email).

cheers

Dan

Dan Randow
St Albans, Christchurch
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From: Mark Rauterkus Date: 2007 May 21 07:14 UTC Short link

Hi,

Perhaps it would be good to offer a slot or two for the steering
committee to some institutional folks. There was a cab driver who is
part of a refugee council. Humm.... Perhaps you could do some outreach
and ask for a volunteer or two from the refugee council.

Who can tell me about that body?

Another idea might be to contact 10 or 20 church groups and ask them
to supply, if they desire, a member to the steering committee.

Just a thought.

Mark Rauterkus
<email obscured>

93 Clyde Road for the next bit

From: Dan Randow Date: 2008 Jun 13 02:51 UTC Short link

Hi Folks,

The steering team for this forum is looking for new members, and you are
invited to apply join. Please let me know directly <email obscured>) if
you are interested in joining the steering team.

The steering team's role is to ensure that the Forum achieves its purpose,
which is to increase the opportunity for Cantabrians to participate in the
local democratic process. The team does this by supporting the Forum Manager,
and by ensuring the the Forum Manager is maintaining the forum rules, in a
non-partisan way. The team meets at least quarterly, but otherwise works
online, using a private online group on this site.

Any member of this forum is welcome to apply to join the steering team. New
members are accepted by consensus among the existing members. The criterion is
willingness to support the forum to achieve its purpose. Diversity in the
steering team is an advantage for unbiased governance.

The current steering team members are as follows.

  Blair Anderson
  Andrew Groom
  Dan Randow
  Lorna Szentivanyi
  John Veitch

From: dave king Date: 2008 Jun 13 03:17 UTC Short link

I'd like to put my name forward Dan, how much time does it involve?

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Randow, Forum Manager, Canterbury Public Issues Forum
<email obscured>]
Sent: Friday, 13 June 2008 2:54 p.m.
To: Canterbury Public Issues Forum
Subject: Re: [Canterbury Issues] the Steering Team

Hi Folks,

The steering team for this forum is looking for new members, and you are
invited to apply join. Please let me know directly <email obscured>) if
you are interested in joining the steering team.

The steering team's role is to ensure that the Forum achieves its purpose,
which is to increase the opportunity for Cantabrians to participate in the
local democratic process. The team does this by supporting the Forum
Manager, and by ensuring the the Forum Manager is maintaining the forum
rules, in a non--partisan way. The team meets at least quarterly, but
otherwise works online, using a private online group on this site.

Any member of this forum is welcome to apply to join the steering team. New
members are accepted by consensus among the existing members. The criterion
is willingness to support the forum to achieve its purpose. Diversity in the
steering team is an advantage for unbiased governance.

The current steering team members are as follows.

  Blair Anderson
  Andrew Groom
  Dan Randow
  Lorna Szentivanyi
  John Veitch

cheers,

Dan

Dan Randow
St Albans, Christchurch
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From: Brian Sandle Date: 2008 Jun 13 14:02 UTC Short link

Dan Randow, Forum Manager, Canterbury Public Issues Forum wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> The steering team for this forum is looking for new members, and you are
invited to apply join. Please let me know directly <email obscured>) if
you are interested in joining the steering team.
>
> The steering team's role is to ensure that the Forum achieves its purpose,
which is to increase the opportunity for Cantabrians to participate in the
local democratic process.
> The team does this by supporting the Forum Manager, and by ensuring the the
Forum Manager is maintaining the forum rules, in a non-partisan way.
I have known of Radio notices and postcards in the Chch Library drawing
attention to this forum, which I guess is one way of supporting the
forum manager. That gets people to the forum. Then keeping the rules
might help some to stay in the forum, thereby retaining opportunity for
participation. But how to get people to take advantage of the
opportunity they know about?

Christchurch was settled mostly from Britain. I think we still have that
part of the British character which stands up against dictators. But how
well are we doing at recognising corporate dictators?

    "Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it
    is a merger of state and corporate power."

    --Benito Mussolini, Italian Duce

    - taken from
http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2001_500/desantis514/JRSaul.html


    By quoting that word 'fascism' do I repel people away from the
    group, therefore reduce opportunities for democratic participation?

From: Dan Randow Date: 2008 Dec 04 01:32 UTC Short link

Hi Folks,

Here's an update on the governance structure of the steering team.

The Canterbury Online Public Issues Forum steering team is constituted somewhat
informally, but has established a governance relationship with the Canterbury
Communications Trust (CCT). The relationship makes the steering team
accountable to CCT for running this forum in a non-partisan way.

The CCT is the organisation that runs Plains 96FM. This relationship reflects
the involvement that Plains FM has had in supporting the project to start the
forum from its outset.

cheers,

Dan Randow
Steering Team Chairperson

From: Dan Randow Date: 2008 Dec 04 01:33 UTC Short link

Sorry, I mean Plains FM 96.9, of course.

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