@ Jov Ver (?) it looks like a empty train with open doors, with a conductor screaming.... you are to late to jump on.... whaw ain't that great way of being democratic.... :-(

I must say I am a bit surprised with your comment: "a great way to be democratic".

Do I understand you well that you find my proposed decisions about efforts which have been carried out in the open, which we solicited input for for weeks or even months, which people have invested their time in and which have a deadline set, an undemocratic way of proceeding?

With input requested at all times - open for each and all, I just think we must prevent high-jacking the assembly, so that all that hard work can be approved. Again: I am doing all of this, not for me, not because of a blind belief in "pirates", I am doing this because the pirate party has a pivotal role to play to improve the local and national communities we live in! I propose that approach so that the pirate party can move forward for crying out loud. We can continue arguing about "democratic process" for aeons and result in never, ever being able to improve it and thus completely and entirely missing the pirate party's intended goal. Would that be a good approach to you?

I have the same view as Vincent on this

"I think the crews have a role to play here.
Loomio cannot be the only source of decision but if every proposal has passed the Loomio filter and has been analyzed and commented by each crew before going to the GA, we can save a lot of time.

A general assembly is a place to decide. A debate 5 minutes before making a decision is far too late."

I do understand that many pirates are not fully aware of this workflow.... So as Sarah Van Liefferinghe mentioned today: we need more people on Loomio and a good intro about do and don't s

This workflow has been used in the preparation of the previous GA with positive results.

It is clear that still today not al pirates are informed about the work that has been done during this summertime. Closing the doors so they can not interact is not very friendly way and could result in reverse reactions.... It is easy to divide, it is great to unite ....

With Loomio all proposals can be viewed, commented and voted in advance... So in this way we can grow to consensus toward decisions on the GA....

Let's work on it ...

If this is a standalone proposal, I recommend you add it as a new topic in the brainstorming zone:
https://www.loomio.org/g/Zur7Xe6o/pirate-party-belgium-permanent-assembly-lvl1-brainstorming-zone

Dispersion of information is our worst enemy.

It is a proposal for the agenda of the GA.
I suppose this is the topic to do proposals for the GA?
Or should we disperse all the proposals for the GA in apart topics?

So, what you suggest is that everyone adds proposal for the statutes in this thread and that someone cleans the mess by extracting the relevant information and makes a document with it? Will you do it?
Please show some respect for people who will try to organize this assembly. A consistent input method is important.

And for the record, Jov's post explicitely states:
"Further topics for the GA can be sent to [email protected] before October 1st."
Besides, we are talking about topics to add to the agenda here, not formal proposals to amend the statutes.

I suggest that, before sending proposals, you discuss them somewhere, for example in a thread on Loomio.

Okay, sorry, it was not clear to me, i'll delete mine above.
So the best way to introduce a new proposal is starting a threat at loomio and send it after acceptation from enough members to [email protected].
A little circuitous but if that's the protocol we'll do it that way.