[GSBN] An apology, a question

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 Mark and all,

Your understanding of GSBN (I remember when it was called ISBN, which indicates how long I've been on this thing) matches mine. We did limit membership in order to limit the amount of traffic - particularly because so many of us had been spending so much time in other venues dealing with all those basic, newbie questions that can be answered and discussed in other existing listserves and organizations. We wanted to create a hub of communication as have you described it for experienced leaders and practitioners around the world to share information and support and address common challenges in the ongoing evolution of straw bale and complementary natural building techniques. And I have to say that in my opinion, we have created and maintained something here of great value.

It's terrific that the archives are available to the public as well. I hope that we are able to maintain the high quality, openness, good humor, and graciousness that has typified the postings over the years. Finally, I want to express my deep gratitude to Bill Christensen and Joyce Coppinger/The Last Straw without whose support and continuing efforts we would not have this global community. 

Warmest regards,

David 
the desert dweller Eisenberg - just back from a Father's day hike with my son Sam and grandson Joe, into Pima Canyon in the Santa Catalina mountains to the north of Tucson. Hot but beautiful! Saw a Gila Monster, blooming agaves (century plants) and saguaro cacti, lizards, hummingbirds, Gambles quail, and much more...


 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Piepkorn <mark at buildinggreen.com>
To: gsbn at greenbuilder.com
Sent: Sun, Jun 21, 2009 8:27 am
Subject: [GSBN] An apology, a question









    I want to apologize to anybody who feels that their trust has been 
betrayed. My understanding of the GSBN - which may not be the same 
held by others - has always been that it's a "hub of communication" 
rather than a private community. The intention of dissemination seems 
to be built into our practice of having regional representatives of 
larger groups, as well as having publicly available archives. 
Limiting membership, as I recall, was chosen out of the desire to 
have a higher signal-to-noise ratio than the larger, open forums. 
These understandings, which may actually turn out to be assumptions, 
came from the initial discussions that occurred prior to the creation 
of this list, and subsequent discussions on this list. But I may be 
mistaken. The "About" page doesn't really address these things (not 
that it should).?

http://greenbuilder.com/mailman/listinfo/gsbn?
?

?  Without intending to spark some drawn-out debate, is it time to 
revisit our purpose and redefine the general expectations we have of 
the GSBN and each other so that we're all on the same page? Did we 
ever write down some kind of mission statement? That, I don't recall.?
?

Mark?
?

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