Rules of Web Project Operation

Posted here for discussion. Any other points people would like to contribute?

#1: If people do not contribute, they are not cooperating either.
*You can't work with people who aren't there. Don't expect anything from people not present.

#2: Without feedback, sharing of work does not make sense.
*You can't know if your work was useful.

#3: Anything evolving involving more than two people needs structure.
*People can't focus in chaos; complexity needs organization, and work needs direction if it is going to go anywhere.

#4: Delegation of work must mean delegation of responsibility.
*If you delegate work without responsibility, you need constant control. You can't manage that over the Internet. If you delegate responsibility but do not show your full trust, you have not delegated responsibility.

#5: Delegation of responsibility depends on inclusion.
*If people are not included, they will not feel trusted. See #4.

#6: Set realistic short-time goals, not just visionary long-time goals.
*Without reaching short-time goals you never reach the long-time ones.

#7: Distribute relevant information to the same place and people.
*Do not form separate sub-groups or put development into Inner Circles if you expect the people in outer groups to follow what you are doing.

#8: Encourage social bonding of the members by off-list communication.
*Social bonding depends on many small things and lighter communication. It is as important in internet communication as in face-to-face situations, but it is just not as easy as meeting over the coffee break and talk about football. Do not mix Conference Table and the Coffee Break too much, the work deteriorates.

On the North-South Split in Anglicanism and Christianity generally

Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University

Commentary No. 119, Aug. 15 2003
"Anglicans, North and South"
by Immannuel Wallerstein

Debates about the ordination of Anglican bishops are seldom of great interest to those who are not Anglicans. Yet, the debate about the ordination of an openly gay priest, Canon V. Gene Robinson, to become the Bishop of New Hampshire of the Episcopalian Church in the United States, has been front page news in the United States this month and has had repercussions throughout the world. When the appointment was approved by a majority of the bishops as well as of lay delegates of the Episcopalian Church, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, was moved to convene a special meeting of the primates of all the Anglican churches throughout the world to discuss the consequences of this action.

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I believe that Wallerstein's argument--echoing arguments

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