How should rules be decided on? This has been discussed in part in e76 and normally after a founding document (constitution) being created by a random community of full time community members (advocates). Rules in such a document should be considered rules of conduct...
135 – Crime & Punishment
How should members be 'punished' if there is an infraction of the community rules? The rules in question here are the rules of conduct, within the walls of the community and are not to be confused with civil law, transgressions of civil law such as rape, assault or...
134 – Size of a community
How many people should be the maximum for a community? This question requires a large amount of speculation. There are so many contributing factors such as space constraints, economic constraints, a sufficient number of of educators, trainers, advocates or mentors, in...
133 – leadership terms
How often should changes in leadership occur? Aside the exception of a challenge to the present leadership, in a vote of no confidence, in the current people in charge. A regular cycle of 4 or 5 years seems a reasonable amount of time. However, one must take care to...
132 – Salaries and Savings
How much do members earn? At this point, this is very much an exercise in speculation. But some approximate values can be expressed based on current incomes for technically specialized people. In the UK for example, at time of writing, a graduate with 2 years...
131 – Obtaining money
How does the community obtain money? The community will have a number of incomes. Firstly from work contracts with outside organizations, these should be considered low cost, long term solid contracts that benefit the recipient. Secondly, from donations from private...
130 – helping society
How does the community help society at large? Simple, it helps by researching developing and creating thing to aid and benefit mankind. Initially this will be by working through and for existing organizations offering peer review of scientific papers, computer...
129 – outside contracts
How are outside contracts decided upon? Due to the necessity of securing work with exterior agencies, firms and foundations. There should be a committee dedicated to taking on the responsibility of which jobs are taken, declined or delayed. the committee should really...
128 – education
How does education occur? This is a very broad question I asked, I would imagine that given the practical working nature of the community where & when will education take place? There are 3 main methods that can be broadly applied; theory & study much like a...
127 – Election process
How are members elected to different positions? Initially in a small community positions will be given to those most suited to the role and with the most experience. Ultimately a list of advocates amongst the top 10 in each department will be found and for each dept a...
