as sent to the HACC mailing list.

HACC & consensus: year 3 update

Hi Seth, hi HACC, yes, this is a reply to a 2.5 year old mail,

Seth, immediately after the 35c3 HACC sessions, you reported to this list:

With regard to decision making within our group, we would like to try
out a 'vetoed consensus' strategy in the vein of the Premium collective:
>
http://www.premium-cola.de/betriebssystem/soziales/190-modul-konsensdemokratie
(german only, sorry)

I was disappointed by the "german only" link to a whole decision making strategy. I expected somebody would step up and correct this. (Nobody had). That page is now down, if I remember correctly, it was even a video, which made it additionally excluding.

I'm not writing this to complain, but to emphasize how important it is to recover this point in time, correct it, and continue resolutely from there.

In the last year, several big decisions have been made, or better said introduced, in the name of HACC, but without consulting HACC, that do not fit the vetoed consensus model.

As I co-organized and facilitated the sessions at 35c3 and 36c3, and as I proudly host HACC at https://totalism.org/hacc, I feel especially responsible. This is not what we gathered around or worked for. Breaking consensus is breaking consent.

The responsible, as well as those following the Matrix room (still at the same address!), or the HACC meetings, know I was, together with others, giving out explicit warnings. Consider this another one, and a call to make immediate reversions and corrections.

Thanks,

https://matrix.to/#/@dcht00:matrix.org
david@totalism.org