Readings Selection
Matthew Cropp PublicSeen by 32A thread to coordinate the selection of readings!
Add at least one reading suggestion to the spreadsheet
opt-in by Matthew Cropp Closed Thu 25 Jan 2018 3:03AM
Please check 'yes' when you've added at least one book to the spreadsheet! Once we have the initial list, we'll initiate the first readings selection process...
Results
| Results | Option | Voters | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | 5 |    | |||
| No | 0 | ||||
| Not voted | 5 |     |
Coooooooool! I had no idea you could do that in a spreadsheet! Since the check poll has closed, I would say go ahead with the poll ASAP! Please include a link to the spreadsheet on the poll and highlight the selected books so people can find the relevant ones easily. I dehighlight and rehighlight each month for my hackerspace club...
Cool stuff! How do we pick the "finalists" though? They all are very interesting :)
I've used the RNG to pick five books from the spreadsheet, and I suggest we each pick our top 3 among those (I narrowed it to 3 so we have to make an additional tradeoff choice beyond the ranking, but I figure we'll iterate on the voting process as we go).
This is my first Lomio vote so please let me know if I messed anything up :)
What should be the first book for the reading group?
ranked choice by Erik Moeller Closed Mon 5 Feb 2018 3:03AM
These proposals were randomly chosen from the suggestions spreadsheet. See the spreadsheet for details about each book:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZvZ_MLq1dAVBCY7-e9Iylg-qxWYqkcptjvOnkyOTeTA/edit#gid=0
Results
| Results | Option | Rank | % of points | Points | Mean | Voters | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Derek Wall: Elinor Ostrom's Rules for Radicals. Cooperative Alternatives beyond Markets and States (2017) | 1 | 30 | 18 | 2 | 8 | |||
| E.G.Nadeau & Luc Nadeau: The Cooperative Society (2016) | 2 | 25 | 15 | 2 | 8 | |||
| Michael Lewis & Patrick Conaty: The Resilience Imperative: Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-State Economy (2012) | 3 | 22 | 13 | 2 | 8 | |||
| Ajamu Nangwaya & Kali Akuno: Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi (2017) | 4 | 17 | 10 | 3 | 4 | |||
| Michael Braungart & William McDonough: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things | 5 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Not voted | 0 | 0 | 12 |
Great -- thanks for doing this!
-Matt
Just a reminder that the poll closes tomorrow so if you haven't already, please get your votes in - thanks :)
Reading Selection: 2nd Book
ranked choice by Neil - @neil@social.coop Closed Sun 18 Mar 2018 1:02PM
A random selection of books from the shared spreadsheet. Please select your top 3 to determine which one we'll read for our second reading group selection.
You can find more details about each book in the spreadsheet (this months candidates are highlighted in yellow): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZvZ_MLq1dAVBCY7-e9Iylg-qxWYqkcptjvOnkyOTeTA/edit#gid=0
Results
| Results | Option | Rank | % of points | Points | Mean | Voters | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ajamu Nangwaya, Kali Akuno: Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi | 1 | 32 | 19 | 3 | 7 | |||
| E.G.Nadeau & Luc Nadeau: The Cooperative Society | 2 | 23 | 14 | 2 | 9 | |||
| George Cheney: Values at Work Employee Participation Meets Market Pressure at Mondragon | 3 | 17 | 10 | 2 | 5 | |||
| Jess Gilbert: Planning Democracy | 4 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 5 | |||
| Jaroslav Vanek: Self Management: Economic Liberation of Man | 5 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 4 | |||
| Not voted | 0 | 0 | 22 |
Reading Selection 3rd Book
ranked choice by Matt Noyes Closed Sun 29 Apr 2018 10:02PM
The good news is we have chosen our next reading: Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism.
The bad news is I was the person who put that on the list, meaning that I am facilitating twice in a row -- if anyone would rather facilitate this one, feel free. ;-)
Rank your choices.
Results
| Results | Option | Rank | % of points | Points | Mean | Voters | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Values at Work Employee Participation Meets Market Pressure at Mondragon | 1 | 20 | 13 | 3 | 5 | |||
| Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism. A New Vision for the Future Of Work and a Fairer Internet. | 2 | 20 | 13 | 2 | 6 | |||
| Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women's Liberation in the Syrian Kurdistan | 3 | 18 | 12 | 2 | 6 | |||
| The Resilience Imperative: Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-State Economy | 4 | 15 | 10 | 2 | 6 | |||
| Platform Capitalism | 5 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 3 | |||
| Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future | 6 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 3 | |||
| The Conquest of Bread | 7 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Not voted | 0 | 0 | 26 |
Add a book to the reading list!
opt-in by Matthew Cropp Closed Tue 8 May 2018 3:02PM
Let's keep building the reading list! Check 'yes' on this poll if you've added at least one new book to the readings spreadsheet
Results
| Results | Option | Voters | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | 4 |   | |||
| No | 1 |  | |||
| Not voted | 32 |          |
I feel like I am not familiar enough with the field to suggest books yet, but looking forward to read the next book selection
Hi all,
sorry for letting the past week fly by without any updates. I am now selecting the books using https://www.random.org/ to randomly select the 8 books that will be put to the votes. Poll coming soon! :)
@michelekipiel Could you add this book to the master list, out of which you do random selections:
- Capra & Mattei (2015), The ecology of law - Toward a legal system in tune with nature and community, Berrett-Koehler.
Toward a law framework for post-capitalism.
Hi @mikeh8 , the reading selection spreadsheet can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZvZ_MLq1dAVBCY7-e9Iylg-qxWYqkcptjvOnkyOTeTA/edit?usp=sharing.
There are also descriptions for the books there as well which helps with selection.
Thanks Emi. I did discover the spreadsheet after I’d posted my query. Unfortunately, I don’t use resources that require a Google ID.
Hi @mikeh8, I added that book personally as soon as the list was created :) Such a great read!
If there are no objections, I can convert the spreadsheet to an Ethercalc document...
Works for me, let's wait for some more feedback though :)
Reading selection - Fourth book
ranked choice by Michele Kipiel Closed Sun 15 Jul 2018 12:02PM
And the winner is... "Values at Work Employee Participation Meets Market Pressure at Mondragon" by G. Cheney!
Let the reading begin :)
As usual, I I will set up a poll in the coming days to pick a date for the discussion call next month.
Let's choose the next book we want to read!
The book descriptions can be found on this spreadsheet.
Results
| Results | Option | Rank | % of points | Points | Mean | Voters | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Cooperative Society - E.G. Nadeau & L. Nadeau | 1 | 19 | 41 | 7 | 6 | |||
| Values at Work Employee Participation Meets Market Pressure at Mondragon - G. Cheney | 2 | 19 | 41 | 7 | 6 | |||
| Capital as Power: A Study of Order and Creorder - J. Nitzan & S. Bichler | 3 | 14 | 30 | 5 | 6 | |||
| We the People: Connecting to a Deeper Democracy - J. Buck Jr & S. Villines | 4 | 13 | 28 | 5 | 6 | |||
| Self Management: Economic Liberation of Man - J. Vanek | 5 | 10 | 22 | 4 | 6 | |||
| Property and Contract in Economics: The Case for Economic Democracy - D. Ellerman | 6 | 9 | 20 | 3 | 6 | |||
| Rules for Radicals: A Progmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals - S. Alinsky | 7 | 9 | 19 | 3 | 6 | |||
| The Conquest of Bread - P. Kropotkin | 8 | 7 | 15 | 3 | 6 | |||
| Not voted | 0 | 0 | 35 |
@michelekipiel I'd much rather be doing a dot-vote on this, since there are only one or two books I'm keen to read. Sorting eight into a hierarchy is more work than I feel like giving to the remainder. And might seem to support them.
Dot voting on this type of decision doesn't work well (tried it in a different reading group, and we decided ranked choice works better), but what I prefer is to have it set to only rank the top four of the eight. The flow of the approved decision making process is in the description of the sub-group for reference.
Also, @michelekipiel, I'm going to edit the description of the poll to embed the link to the spreadsheet so folks can easily access the book descriptions.
Thanks!
Really excited to read this one! @mattnoyes selections seem to be good ones... ;)
You're too kind. Actually, this time I am confident we can set up a follow-up chat with George Cheney.
The original publication date is 1999. The Updated Edition is 2002. My library system has the original. Amazon.com sells the Updated Edition for $25. I wonder what’s in the update.
I just requested this via inter-library loan, so if it arrives in time to read, I'll be excited to join the discussion.
Okay, I think we're almost ready to get started. I've added a random book selector to the spreadsheet, here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZvZ_MLq1dAVBCY7-e9Iylg-qxWYqkcptjvOnkyOTeTA/edit#gid=570362544
Feel free to tweak it. If that works for folks, in the next few days, I'll run it to generate options for a poll. So please get your suggestions into the "Proposed Books" section now if you haven't already :-)