All posts in the topic the Steering Team

2008 Dec 04 01:33 UTC

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).