<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="4">Of course everyone's "take" on things is different. As editor of Confluence, I thought we should have had a brief news story about the dialog session since it was one of the significant events in our community. That's different from my opinion, I think the distinction between a news story and an opinion column is important. But this depends on whether you want to see Confluence become more like a newsmagazine, with news and opinion stories, or do you just want it to be a calendar of events?</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="4">If we want, we can have news and/or opinion on the dialogue sessions in the September Confluence, after both meetings have been held. For Confluence, it would be best if one of the organizers would write something. That is how Confluence usually works, the people involved in each activity write the stories. If there is a lot of material, such as the written statements many participants prepared for the dialogue session, or other opinion pieces, I can post them in a separate file and link to them from Confluence itself. But maybe we want to treat this as a hush hush personnel matter and not put it in Confluence. I don't think Confluence has readers in the community outside the church, I'm not even sure how many members read it. I'm not going to produce separate issues, one for the members and one for the public, it would be too much trouble and people would have to access it through the members only page on <a href="http://fuusm.org">fuusm.org</a> with a password and captcha which would further cut the readership.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="4">I would also like to share my opinion, of course, which I could do at the August session except that I expect to be out of town. I would like to have the meeting available to members on Zoom, and there may be others who will be traveling in August. </font><span style="font-size:large">Opening a Zoom room for members doesn't mean opening it to the general public. </span><span style="font-size:large"> We spent a lot of money setting up the sanctuary for Zoom, and our tech team does a great job, why not use it? </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="4">In the <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DiNG859zSxqwJfS0MZrS_J6TEVBeUFDD1RlaTDfYf-k/edit?usp=sharing">August Confluence</a>, we have an interesting essay by Dawn on the afterlife (no, it's not the Great General Assembly in the Sky). We also have several reports on the Pittsburgh General Assembly. But I'm not sure if people want to read this sort of thing in Confluence, maybe we all already have enough reading. I'd appreciate anyone's input on what you would like Confluence to be. </font></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 3:53 PM C-D Keller <<a href="mailto:doraville5153@yahoo.com">doraville5153@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Please keep in mind that Ted Goertzels “take” on the Dialogue meeting may not agree with other people’s “take “.<div><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jul 31, 2023, at 2:27 PM, Ted Goertzel via Fuusm-l <<a href="mailto:fuusm-l@fuusm.org" target="_blank">fuusm-l@fuusm.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="4">Here is the <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DiNG859zSxqwJfS0MZrS_J6TEVBeUFDD1RlaTDfYf-k/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">August edition</a> of our collectively written and illustrated monthly newsletter. This one has some essays (closer to the end) as well as the usual calendar, photos and news items. We learn where Dawn expects to spend eternity (it's not heaven or hell) , and get some reactions to the UUA General Assembly. There are photos of the Playstation service on July 30. I have also experimented with some AI drawn illustrations. </font></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="4">There is no story on the July 23 Dialogue Session. If you want my take on it, you can email me. I'll be out of town for the August 23 session and won't be able to cover it unless they put it on Zoom.</font></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="4">As usual, there are two formats: </font></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="4">Click here for the <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DiNG859zSxqwJfS0MZrS_J6TEVBeUFDD1RlaTDfYf-k/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">August Confluence as a Google Doc.</a></font> <font size="4">Recommended because the text loads quickly, it can be updated or corrected during the month, and it reads well on a phone or tablet (turn the phone sideways). The pictures will load slower on a slow connection.</font></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="4">Click here for the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uZn8T2NjlbxQHsZkh3qwc0NwJTVcKhyw/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">August Confluence as a PDF</a>. Recommended if you prefer to save a copy on your own device. </font></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="4">Ted Goertzel, editor</font></div></div>
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