Homelessness and the web (really about class & money)

[Rod Clark]

> This is a valuable question, but not at all an easy one.
> ...
> You know you have a self-managed shelter when you do a
> walkthrough and members point to things and say -- "I made
> that" -- "I was the one suggested doing it that way" -- "We
> used to have doo-dah there but we all voted to have dee-dah
> instead" -- and other indications that the shelter is
> *theirs*.  Where the money came from is not a large factor in that.
> 
> I'd like to see SCN focus on developing an atmosphere where
> users identify their screen display as something they voted on,
> something they helped build, something that is *theirs*.  That
> is not easy -- giving people a democratic voice in procedures
> usually seems to involve hunting them down and pulling it out
> of them.  

Anitra, and everyone who's contributed to this, 

   What do you say we take what people have said so far in 
this thread on the mailing list (minus anyone's remarks who 
doesn't want to be quoted), strip out some of the mail header 
stuff, format it as HTML, and publish it? It could be linked 
from the SCN home page. 

   So far, almost no one has read this discussion. (A few dozen 
people?) Maybe it would help if SCNA and SCN subscribers in 
general could read it too, as fodder for whatever we hope will 
happen.

Rod
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