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, 13:10, 12 October 2008Announcement
Let this page serve as a discussion place for this new possibility.
Let this page serve as a discussion place for this new possibility.
==Announcement==
As the owner of this website, and as the primary agent for a new forum for research and discussion of information management on the Internet, I would like to announce that I am about 90% resolved to move forward in the following way:
*The new forum will begin as a closed, "team edited" blog, open to ''comment'' by the general public. One new blog post will appear every Monday. Comments may be censored only by a majority vote of the management.
*I will invite four other real-name people to form a set of '''Five Founders'''. Each of these men or women will have the opportunity to opt into or out of legal ''ownership'' of the domain, through a short partnership contract.
*Each Founder will be responsible for drafting one blog post, on a rotating basis, such that '''Founder A''' will write the Week 1 post, '''Founder B''' will write the Week 2 post, and so on. The first draft of the post will be submitted on Thursdays, and the rest of the Founders may touch up and improve copy on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday; but the Monday publication will carry the byline of the drafting author/Founder.
*Each Founder will be allowed one "rain check" per year (to miss one every-five-weeks blog posting), but a second missed posting will result in the Founder losing contractual partnership.
*Every three months, the Founders will discuss and vote on the addition of new members ('''New Partners''') who will be inserted into the rotating blog production cycle. After a quarterly probation period, they will also be given the opportunity to opt into or out of legal ''ownership'' of the domain.
*In this way, the body of authors will grow, and the duty cycle of each member will decrease over time. If the duty cycle becomes too sporadic for the partners' taste, then we could vote to double the frequency of the blog, with new posts being published on Mondays ''and'' Thursdays.
At this time, I would like interested Founder candidates to reach out to me by private e-mail (ResearchBiz <nowiki><at></nowiki> gmail.com). As stated above, real-names matching to authenticated bios will be required, at least to be shared within the private partnership contract, but not necessarily to the public at large. Recommendations for other Founders are welcome, as well. I urge ''private'' correspondence on this founding process, as I don't want this site to turn into a public discussion of real-name qualities and drawbacks. -- [[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 06:10, 12 October 2008 (PDT) ([[Directory:Gregory J. Kohs|Gregory Kohs]])
==Founding principles==
==Founding principles==