Hmm. I could imagine a traditional organizer interviewing the folks organizing the astronomy research at Oxford.
Q: Tell me about your project?
A: We need to do a lot of research.Q: How much?
A: Well it is like counting and looking at stars in space.
Q: How long will it take? How many staff would it take? How much?
A: Not long. Only a few staff and a big network. Most of the research will be free.
Q: What do you mean?
A: We distributed the work to the network. We asked them to do little bits, check each others work and built our research from the results.
Q: what did they find?
Can you design a similar project? Would you have funded it? Would you have supported it in your organization? Why or why not?
This is network organizing. This is different than thinking about how to organize or build an organization. This is different than grassroots organizing. This is organizing projects to run across massive connected networks of participants using their skills and intelligence.
I look forward to getting out advocacy network based projects moving again. And please check out the Galaxyzoo.
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