Open Issues in the Community Development Methodology
1. Feedback
Feedback mechanisms are used to control the dynamic behavior of a system, to stimulate or adjust its behavior in some way. In an emerging social system feedback is how the self-organizing process can be accelerated or defeated, so it is a very important For us this is the most unknown thing in this whole process. We will be working it out as we go. Some possibilities are:
- providing opportunities to the community in the form of communications infrastructure
- Holding "birds of a feather" meetings at appropriate conferences
- finding and providing resources (developing grant proposals?) at key moments in the community's development
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2. Building membership
