Talk:Underhill, Vermont
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[edit] Copyright issue
Most of the article is copied from the Town Plan at www.underhillvt.gov which might be a copyright problem. —MJBurrage • TALK • 14:07, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Community Website Project
The following text was inappropriately posted on the article page by user Enhan. The article itself should not be used as a forum for discussing projects. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Redjar (talk • contribs) 10:54, 2005 December 18.
This section is dedicated to documenting the process of a small Vermont community when it engages in an effort to achieve -– as true as possible -– a true local town community web presence. While this initiative was started by two local individuals with training and professional experience in organizational development and Internet technologies, including direct work on some partially successful Vermont town community websites going back to 1996, the hope is that others will get involved as soon as possible.
After some initial brainstorming, it became apparent to one of these two individuals that they should consider announcing their intention to -- seriously consider -- the use of a Wiki system as the "technological engine" for the town community web project. It also became apparent to this individual that it might be important to announce a general meeting to occur within two weeks after the beginning of the 2006 new year -- to be held at a public meeting place -- for all interested parties to discuss the matter in more detail.
This approach would reflect a governing variable in a "group process orientation" drawn from the "action science" or "organizational learning" field which recommends that participants "maximize valid information, have free and informed choice for all" rather than for participants to "define goals and try to achieve them (unilaterally)"... The long-term effectiveness of this community website initiative may depend on these two individuals’ earliest efforts to make sure they don't "own and control the task" but instead that they "design situations where participants can be Origins and can experience high personal causation"... and fully "jointly control tasks"....
Though people may still not be interested in participating after such an announcement, as least the two initial organizers will be as open as possible and thus make every effort to present their thoughts and plans as they emerge, thus reducing any possible defensiveness felt by others should they announce later a set "direction" decided upon by them or show they have executed the project themselves alone and given it some initial direction. The initial thought pattern here, as least with one of these two initial participants, is that it's better to begin the project as an entirely open endeavor, with as complete a presentation of their thinking process as possible. It remains for the other participant(s) to give his/her point of view, as this formulation (above) resulted only from one person's point of view and not from a joint decision to present things as such.
It was thought by the initial poster here that it is possible to take action in this "organizationally sound" direction by actually starting with this post, to get the ball rolling instead of just talking about it, by using these existing Wiki sections at Wikipedia as the location itself for the documentation of this local phenomenon of local individuals struggling to determine how to use the Internet to their best "community" advantage.
Thus we begin by using this existing area in Wikipedia to begin our documentation of our thought processes as community members striving to do something productive to take best advantage of the Internet to benefit our community and to present our communities to the world.
This process might show that we want to move our efforts from Wikipedia to our own dedicated Wiki deployment, where the community might have more control over posts.
