methodology

(This is a copy of the material written down in a google doc. The objective of this blog is to report what we have done, rather than strategise or share contact information. You are most welcome to take part in the google doc, by sending a message to me. In fact, if the wave is to manifest, then your thoughts need to be on that doc, and your actions written here. If the wave swells, the doc will most likely become a wiki, but again, with the following principle: what is important is what we do in the real world when we engage one another -- everything else is just opinion and thought.)

Don't write stuff down. Like this, hehehe. I am writing this because I am bored, since I can't go ahead and talk to people because I don't know who they are, and I don't have contact details. Hopefully I shall find a few names, and hopefully they shall be chosen by others. I will then spend a week trying to get into their offices. When an appointment is made, we might consider this to be a success. I shall then invite whoever might be suitable and available to come. Every individual prepares for the meeting, but there is no "group" that turns up and certainly whatever thoughts we have, they have not been agreed upon. We approach the meeting free, inviting the potential for the best solution to be found, ideally invented in the meeting as this unique combination of individuals share their perspectives.

If a meeting with a VIP is managed, either through working up internally through the institution or just by a combination of luck and perseverance, I shall present them the list of recommended sites with the intention that they are distributed through their network or institution. If we are talking about government, then I might ask that this list be given to everyone who is unemployed. Instead of the distribution being conducted internally, a decision may be made to outsource it to us or an individual in the meeting, who prints them and then distributes them, or perhaps creates a website or whatever, and then all the institution need do is point at it. However, I do not expect anyone to trust us. I would rather we just offer what we can free with no major obligation on their part. We may ask for their assistance or support in a future projection, ie their name so when we approach another group we can say we have their support but even this may be too much to expect. My impression is, we need to offer some way for them to trust us, and by us, I mean the self-organising collective. It is like a challenge to us, to prove that we can muster action. Like we get 100k people to hit a site in a week, or we get 1k people to join a group in facebook; the point being that there is no group, but it is a mobilisation of different unaffiliated networks. We are talking mind-mass and time, the same nature of movement in the real world because of the credit crunch.

Such a task serves two purposes: to wake up the community at large to direct action, and to win the trust of the VIP. A further meeting then may allow them more trust and participation, perhaps coming up with potential solutions to realise the second and third thresholds.