[New-imc] moderation

[Petros Evdokas]

My thanks to Boud for opening the dialogue to the list.

I also wish to add the following:

- I don't have any complaints in terms of how our colleagues have been 
administering the group mailbox. But that is different from moderating 
(more on that below).

- I don't have any objections to adding one more person to administer 
the mailbox. Thanks to Bartolomeo for volunteering.

- If Bartolomeo's main focus is to help with new imc groups that may be 
forming in Germany, perhaps volunteering with the mailbox administration 
may not the best direction to accumulate experience and familiarity with 
the work of new-imc. For example, more can be gained for Bartolomeo and 
for the new-imc work group if we may ask Bartolomeo to offer help with 
some of the other ongoing (or future) work of the group.

- It appears to me, and I think to many people, that Moderating is not 
the same as administering the email box. Moderating is an active 
involvement in the dialogue in ways that can help maintain a good, 
functional and positive climate, helping to focus our attention on 
aspects of the work that need to be pursued further, occasionally 
summing up where we're at with each thread of the work or the dialogue, 
and helping us proceed as a group. Sometimes that role is called 
"facilitator" or "moderator" or "co-ordinator"; the name is not 
important but the activity is. I feel we might benefit from some light 
and mild moderating.


Thanks again to all for the opportunity to re-examine some of this, and 
to Bartolomeo for volunteering.
Petros
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