20 people have signed up to PaddysValley, which is great, but very little is happening on the ground because most of the work is being left up to two people, namely Conor and Damien. Why? I might be wrong but I detect a certain amount of fear about 'stepping on toes', a fear that arises from our natural tendency to think in terms of 'command and control', top-down organization.
I recognize it because I sometimes detect the same thing at Limerick OpenCoffee, when members of the group want to run ideas by me for ratification, so to speak. I think it's because I've been one of the people who promoted Limerick OpenCofffee most on my blog. There seems to be an assumption that this makes me 'the organizer'. While I completely understand that and appreciate the deference I've repeatedly made it clear that I'm not the organizer because the event doesn't need one, it's essentially an unconference -
"An unconference is a conference where the content of the sessions is driven and created by the participants, generally day-by-day during the course of the event, rather than by a single organizer, or small group of organizers."
Likewise, please understand that PaddysValley is an unproject - there is no single or small group of organizers (even if two people have been doing most of the work by default), so all the participants need to... participate. Now! Please.
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