[Oe List ...] Order Polity document

Mon Nov 13 20:35:12 EST 2006

SO!  I'm not quite sure where we've arrived with all this.  My copy, like Marilyn's, says "for the total group" in the section Jim mentioned.  Still it sounds like many people have the document (albeit with typos) on the Gold Pathways CD (which I know nothing about--probably something I passed up).

I made a copy of the whole thing this evening to send to David.  Seems to me it might still be best for David to scan it and add it to the website for everyone to access.  As for Ruth's question about creating a pdf from a Word file vs. scanned file--I'm clueless.  The copy I have is pretty decent, but my experience with OCR software has been sketchy at best.  It would take quite a while to type it from scratch and probably almost as long to try to clean it up after using OCR.  Seems a pdf file is a simpler--and at least somewhat less labor intensive--solution.

I'd be willing to make photocopies, but it would cost me about $11 per copy at Kinko's plus mailing costs.  Seems like it would be easier--and cheaper--to have it scanned and available on line for people to access and/or print out as they wish.  Is there a reason this wouldn't work for anyone?  I'm open to doing whatever I can to facilitate getting this to anyone who wants it.  Perhaps David and/or Len who seem to have the technical knowledge might make a proposal for our consensus?

Shelley

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Marilyn R Crocker 
  To: oe at wedgeblade.net 
  Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 8:09 PM
  Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Order Polity document

  Hi Jim and all,

  I have an original document which has the word "for" where the Golden Pathways has "rot".  I know I did some editing of other original documents for the CD -- so perhaps someone other than the authors edited this document also for the CD?  I don't know.  But if that is the case, perhaps we should scan the original for the Repository, if that is likely to become our permanent archive.

  Just a thought.

  M.

  Marilyn R. Crocker, Ed.D
  Crocker & Associates, Inc.
  123 Sanborn Road
  West Newfield, ME 04095
  (207) 793-3711

  On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:42:32 -0600 Jim Baumbach <wtw0bl at new.rr.com> writes:
    Shelley,

    Here is something you can check on your documents.  Under the section III. notice the sentence beginning "To insure a common operating context rot the total group and..."

    I don't know what "...rot the total group..." means but if the same phrase shows up in your document, we probably all have it in the Golden Pathways CD.

    Jim Baumbach

    " 
    III. THE DELIBERATIVE FUNCTION

    A. The Local Collegium

    The local collegium is the daily gathering of all in each place for deliberation of issues affecting the common life and mission. It occurs in formalized structures such as breakfast collegiums and meal conversations, as well as informal conversations with colleagues over missional issues. It represents the deliberative aspect of the democratic or community dynamic of corporate polity. It is the basic vehicle through which a common mind is forged and thus is the foundational aspect of consensus.

    The paramount function of the local collegium is to shape and give expression to the consensed will of the people. Without the collegium dynamic, the refinement of strategy and maneuvers and the building of implementies becomes an exercise in abstraction, divorced from the significant engagement of the people in decision making. The basic functions of the local collegium are:

    To insure a common operating context rot the total group and..."

    Jeanette Stanfield wrote: 
Hi Shelley and all,

I just checked the Golden Pathways archive disk.  It looks like all of
Polity document is printed there.

Jeanette

Marilyn R Crocker

  Hi Shelley et. al,

This was the final and only version, although it bore the disclaimer
"working copy not for distribution."  I mistakenly typed 1976 in my
recent e-mail, when it was actually spring of 1977 when we began our
work.  The "working copy" disclaimer was put on the cover prior to
completing our work at the end of Summer '77.  We felt very accountable
to the Order and hoped to get wide and deep input.  This began with our
presentation to those gathered in Chicago at what might have been Order
Council, I don't exactly recall.  But then the agenda for us all changed
when JWM became ill and died.  The work of the Panchayat suddenly became
communicating the fact of his completed life to the Order around the
world and helping to "guard the comprehensive and defend the deeps" (as
its role was defined) during the transition year.

Marilyn

Marilyn R. Crocker, Ed.D
Crocker & Associates, Inc.
123 Sanborn Road
West Newfield, ME 04095
(207) 793-3711

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:14:46 -0500 Shelley Hahn <shahn at iquest.net>
writes:
    Wow!  Talk about one person's trash being another's treasure!  Sure
glad I 
didn't throw it away. :)

David, if you're willing to scan this and put it on the web, that
would be 
great.  That way everyone who wants it can access it.  I'll mail a
copy to you 
in the next day or two.

Will you post something to the list when you've added it to the wiki
site?  
Thanks!

BTW all, this document does say something like "this is a working
document; 
not for general distribution."  So it's possible it's not the final
final 
thing.  I assume folks will still find it of interest.

Shelley

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