I got these thoughts from a recent lecture given by founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales in Sydney Australia. You can listen to the podcast of it here .
1. The most important key is love he said for community to happen.
2. When around 25 to 30 people are active, it means community. They have talked, they have met, they have fought, they have made up, started talking deeper. Its community out of control!
3. Voting is when you give up on consensus. They oppose voting because it creates polarization, the minority vote is still incredibly valid, talking just needs to continue to happen to there is unity.
4. The dream is to democratize what we know and change what we know.
5. Organization comes after and just happens. Jimmy Wales is already establishing a new enterprise which is exploding, but Jimmy admits he still has not decided what structure he will use for it, or how it will happen!
6. The key is INTENTIONAL VULNERABILITY
7. People love to talk about decentralization and the power of ordinary people but seldom do we do it, they on the other hand just do it.
8. Assume good faith. When you assume the worst you need to create complex systems which makes a bad society.
9. People are always asking Jimmy for the rules of Wikipedia and how those rules are formulated and even he cant remember what the are.
This is a great list. Amazing how closely organic church and this list match up.