Over the past year, many people have participated in this experiment in community building, the wiki. It's time for a wider discussion to share ideas and impressions.

Let's get together and talk about the future of the wiki.

Where: The Alehouse
When: Monday, August 18, 7pm

n.b. laptops and libations don't mix. Leave yours at home.

There are so many angles, so let's make this a free-form discussion. Here are a few questions to think about beforehand.

• What do you want to do with Columbia Citizens?
• What's working? What could work better?
• What's motivated you to participate so far?
  • What would make the experience more fun?
  • What might motivate other neighbors?

In the meantime, here are some numbers.

• ~4000 monthly visits
• ~12 000 monthly pageviews
• ~30 comments per week
• ~270 total pages
• ~440 subscribers to Wikli alerts
• ~75 Citizen members

If you have ideas or questions you'd like to share, please use this comment thread. If this conversation is something folks enjoy, then maybe we can have it more regularly.

I am also aware of a semi-active Yahoo group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ColumbiaCitizens/ . Then I also learned of a private email list that an active neighbor named Marj manages. Those are more good examples of positive grass-roots organizing.

Can someone explain the relationship between them all? Is there a hope to consolidate all three? What's the conversation like between the people who actually have ownership?

I suppose that "ownership" is a bad word to use. Anyone who reads this post or is a participant in any of these efforts probably feels some sort of "ownership" of the grass-roots organizing. As well they should! I guess I should say "What's the conversation like between the people who actually have "admin powers" to those efforts?

Or, is it a secret?
:-)