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Note the backpedal that I can't edit User:Craig_Hubley/done? or other subpage?s. Some OP upgrades appear to have been downgrades. Meanwhile as I cannot edit my user space, others are doing so, and have had their comments moved to User_talk:Craig_Hubley as per mediawiki standard User_talk:namespace.
''See also the neutral point of view on Craig Hubley, his dowire.org user page
and technorati profile - which requires
<a href="http://www.technorati.com/claim/tqwzye32nv" rel="me">this tag</a>.''
The following is under Craig Hubley's own control and may self-promote. Because it is a user page, comment rather than editing, unless you are asking for clarification or question something specific, in which case, edit the page to include a question or issue.
Hubley is a software designer, management consultant, researcher and policy analyst focusing on computer supported cooperative work? and sustainable trades.
As a management consultant from 1989-96 he had about sixty clients for major projects in software and service development mostly in the US. He designed an early secure fax-over-Internet service, was the original designer of lavalife, and other combined net-and-phone tools.
Both his professional biography and a list of links to and about his work 1987-present are presently invisible though may be available from net archives. Craig has been an Internet user since 1982.
Today, he consults on e-government, resilient signal infrastructure for telework, e-democracy, and consensus decision making in organization protocols. He has done exploratory work on foundations of prediction market?s and labour markets for sustainable development. He advocates very fine-grained specialized labour markets and micro-capital? methods of financing sustainable infrastructural capital, and has developed specialized instruments to assure, insure and ensure sustainable outcomes for such development.
One particular interest and focus is large public wikis and especially wiki best practices of political wikis, especially mediawiki-based services and tikiwiki-based services, and their interaction with chat, teleconference?, email and live meeting?s.
Craig's first environmental campaign work was in 1977 helping prevent the destruction of a coastal community in the LaHave Islands of Nova Scotia and preserving the common land? status of the largest island in the group, which was slated for development as a federal national park. The park moved to Port Joli, the Lunenburg County Council moved to protect its common lands "forever" (a rare word in politics) and today there are two places for sea kayakers to visit. This campaign involved a boat-borne protest up the LaHave River to Bridgewater, a petition which could only gather signatures (or X's) by rowing to each island in the group, and the organizing of the first community activist group ever seen in the area. The effort was largely led by his father, Douglas Hubley, an early advocate of ecological design, systems thinking and low impact life.
Craig was involved in many campaigns while working in industry and was often an advocate of reducing the materials and energy impact of work habits and practices. He was very active in the usability and ergonomics community 1987-94 and twice served as Performance Chair of ACM CHI. He was involved in many professional efforts to make computer supported cooperative work? simpler and using it to fight groupthink - including a groupthink of the dotcom era that "more technology is good". His activism came to center on privacy and in 2000 at CFP he presented his view of appropriate privacy for political organizations - as little as possible: political organizations direct and reduce violence and the degree to which they are open is the degree to which they work. He was probably thus one of the earliest advocates of an open party.
In 1999 he was involved in anti-MAI activities that later became part oft the anti-globalization movement. Also in that year he had been instrumental in driving the Green Party of Ontario to adopt Green URIs, an end to the URL and 404 problem and web form?s to simplify its policy work. He, with Greg Bonser and Tom Salsberg and Andrew Roy, proposed the first version of The Green Ethic to the GPO. He was a co-founder of the Free University of Toronto? and helped recruit teachers for over forty courses per term of free classes offered on the U of T's downtown campus. With Elan Ohayan?, Oriel Varga?, Tooker Gomberg, Joe Healy? and others, he was a regular Allen Gardens Project? supporter - spending one night a week, in all weather, sleeping with inadequate shelter with the homeless in that park.
Municipally, he also supported Jane Jacobs' proposal for a Province of Toronto - soon publicly supported by Mayor Mel Lastman and Councillors Michael Walker, Michael Prue and David Miller. He helped lobby against the Adams Mine Dump?, in a campaign led mostly by Tooker Gomberg with Jack Layton and Miller in support. The dump was defeated. One of Hubley's proudest moments was leading dozens of activists from an anti-globalization meeting to physically occupy Toronto City Hall for all of Thanksgiving weekend, 2000. Lastman pronounced it "the worst crowd we've EVER had in this chamber." The wild cheer helped kill the dump for good.
Hubley then founded (with candidate Rob Nevin? ) the Toronto-Danforth EDA of the Green Party of Canada and served as its first EDA president. He recruited several candidates to run for the Greens in the Canadian federal election, 2000 under Joan Russow? but refused to run himself to focus on Nevin's campaign and Gomberg for Mayor? of Toronto. Primary achievements of Gomberg's run were:
It was largely Dan King however who delivered on this promise, as, after these elections in November 2000, Hubley left Toronto for Niagara, but remained involved in the Green response to the NDP's New Politics Initiative and met on this with federal NDP leader Alexa McDonough? in April 2001. Hubley was opposed to any "merger' with the NDP itself but proposed working together on electoral reform, peacemaking?, sustainable trades and global environmental security. His arguments that "we have different heroes" and that "we put ecological wisdom first" may have convinced McDonough to add "sustainability" to the NDP's list of values, which she did at its convention later in 2001.
Hubley worked mostly quietly on policy research and global campaigns in 2001-2. Some papers in social policy and public sector management and accounting are visible on this no-longer wiki site. He was first to propose a simultaneous policy wiki to the Global Greens? in 2002. He returned to Nova Scotia in mid-2002.
In 2003 he focused on learning about rural issues to the same depth as he had mastered urban issues, on the application of reflexive intranets in Green politics, on moral purchasing support.
He was active in the Canadian federal election, 2004, writing the position papers City as Art and When Nations Are Neighbours, and keeping the Answers to Questionnaires 2004 coordinated. He was one of several contributors to the Policy FAQ and party platform comparison chart. See also Hubley's own comparison which is more detailed on some issues than the Party's own chart. He defined the IPA and other key structures of the GPC's Living Platform.
Also in 2004 he was the instigator of Imagine Halifax .ca. This relied upon a wiki-based citizen platform composed of dozens of citizen initiatives? composed from July to October 2004 under the direction of Angela Bischoff (widow of Tooker Gomberg) who organized a loose group of about fifty activists. In the Halifax municipal election a candidate survey? asked for responses to these positions and new ideas from the candidates - and also for new questions and people to ask - making it a delphi. Candidates were scored and their more innovative suggestions compiled into overviews to help establish the difference between citizen and candidate positions.
He was an early advisor to the Living Platform project, invited by longstanding colleague Michael Pilling in as one of several critical trolls. Other GPC intranet efforts have also applied his advice.
He and Saul Bottcher? are responsible for the Terms of Use and the general principle of making all political discourse open content and all Party dialogues or papers open for any non-commercial use. His key papers on this approach are five levels of intranet, Efficient Politics, reflexive intranet and twelve levers.
In 2005 he supports extending the Living Platform via the Living Agenda and Lean Green Machine and Green Bay box proposals. See other practical proposals on the list of process proposals. He also supports using BlackBerry and text message? facilities to extend answer recommendation into the all-candidates meeting?s and other public forums.
His objective is an optimal campaign and lobby support and answer recommendation system.
He is also helping organize the followup to make Imagine Halifax an ongoing way to set municipal citizens' agendas. He is also working with dowire.org on case study? of e-government - a term Craig doesn't like much.
The list of process papers includes some written by Hubley and is a good overview of the priorities involved in organizing a political party.
In January 2005, Craig was accused of being boring.
His policy work is focused on arts, urban?, economics, sustainable trades, emergency preparedness?, rural sustainable development?. The list of position papers includes some of Hubley's papers.
He works with the Civic Efficiency Group and the new GPNS on policy advocacy, notably in Toronto and in Halifax. He was the primary editor of several planks of ImagineHalifax.ca during the October 2004 municipal elections there.
Several reports to the City of Toronto and Minister of State John Godfrey advise specific measures to make cities easier to manage in emergencies and cheaper to run day to day. These same recommendations go to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities at the FCM's own 2005 conference in June in St. John's?.
Craig is focusing his 2005 policy work on infrastructure and design and related accounting reform. See the paper Beyond GAAP on this.
He is reputed to be dozens to hundreds of notorious trolls. He makes a policy of not denying it, since this provides cover to those of similar views and practices. He takes however specific accusations of having written specific things very seriously. If you say he did, you better have either proof or a good lawyer. He is sympathetic to those who propose funding public interest projects by suing operators of blogs, wikis and mailing lists that allow indiscriminate libel, etc..
He is a frequent critic of tikiwiki and especially of blogs. He gripes about the incredibly bad naming schemes that make Green Politics, for instance, a different article than green politics, and allow names to be different from Wikipedia's names for the same thing. In his view, this is disastrous, and creates "ghettoes" in which "green terms" evolve separately from "media terms". Until this is fixed he sees no point in contributing more deeply, since the work is ignored and has no chance of actually influencing the current public terms.
In Living Platform he mostly writes position papers and Green Politics essays. Some focus on stupidity which he sees as driving the Green Party of Canada's Council at present:
He is not a member of the GPC and refuses to rejoin until the GPC purges itself of various people of provably poor ethics and deals with its serious internal libel and competence issues.
He is not a supporter of the current GPC leader Jim Harris and openly calls Harris a Pointy Haired Boss, arguing that he must have no role in internal affairs. Hubley has stated publicly that Party Chair Bruce Abel must resign for incompetence, and the ERCT be dissolved for being contrary to the Six Principles - see Efficient Politics.
He believes that the Green Party should practice green politics in its internal management and green economics in its purchasing. He advocates removing full-time employee or full-time contractor of the GPC and making more "green" part-time and job-sharing arrangements that will not center on Toronto nor on Ottawa.
He also considers the press release and Answers to Questionnaires pipelines in particular to have been poorly managed in the Canadian federal election, 2004, and will not volunteer to work on these again with full-timers in the way.
That said, Craig is actually a fungi (note modified self-claim in line with trolls' feedback in comments below) to hang out with if you are not one of the following people on his "must resign" list: Debbie Hartley, Ken Ashdown, Kevin Colton, Sheila Richardson, Dermod Travis. Craig believes these people could do something else that would do less damage to the Greens and more good for their own careers. The catalogue of damage these people have done and are doing is immense. As these are all allies of Jim Harris it would seem that there is something they have in common.
Craig would also prefer that Jim stop pretending to be an expert in the learning organization. Such organizations don't have people in them who call in camera meetings in a panic to try to eject people who are asking reasonable questions about their agenda.
Until the Green Party of Canada Living Platform was taken over undemocratically, Craig said he "would still prefer the GPC to succeed than fail, which is why he bothers to edit this page. But if it succeeds by methods that involve unethical practices, the entire message of the GPC will be lost. Of these the very WORST unethical practices are those of the AFP." Since then, AFP smear campaigner Michael Pastore has been put in charge of GPC fundraising after the suspension of elected Councillor Kathryn Holloway - who was not consulted. The so-called GPC-DEMGOV? committee has failed even to comment on the GPC Governance fiasco or GPC Council crisis as if somehow governance did not apply to those prescribing changes to the country's governance, etc.
As noted in main article Craig Hubley, he now supports geo-libertarians who seek to decentralize Canada into a bioregional democracy. The Green Federation of Canada is a proposal to achieve this that would have no connection to the failed Green Party of Canada.
Hubley has decided to publicize his work with or on or for openpolitics.ca itself openly on this page, and encourages other regular editors to do likewise. Direct comments regarding this work or its quality to User_talk:Craig_Hubley. Please note that this report belongs at User:Craig_Hubley/done?
2006-01-08: 3 hours editing:
''See also the neutral point of view on Craig Hubley, his dowire.org user page
and technorati profile - which requires<a href="http://www.technorati.com/claim/tqwzye32nv" rel="me">this tag</a>.''
The following is under Craig Hubley's own control and may self-promote. Because it is a user page, comment rather than editing, unless you are asking for clarification or question something specific, in which case, edit the page to include a question or issue.
career
Hubley is a software designer, management consultant, researcher and policy analyst focusing on computer supported cooperative work? and sustainable trades.
As a management consultant from 1989-96 he had about sixty clients for major projects in software and service development mostly in the US. He designed an early secure fax-over-Internet service, was the original designer of lavalife
, and other combined net-and-phone tools.Both his professional biography
and a list of links to and about his work 1987-present are presently invisible though may be available from net archives. Craig has been an Internet user since 1982.Today, he consults on e-government, resilient signal infrastructure for telework, e-democracy, and consensus decision making in organization protocols. He has done exploratory work on foundations of prediction market?s and labour markets for sustainable development. He advocates very fine-grained specialized labour markets and micro-capital? methods of financing sustainable infrastructural capital, and has developed specialized instruments to assure, insure and ensure sustainable outcomes for such development.
One particular interest and focus is large public wikis and especially wiki best practices of political wikis, especially mediawiki-based services and tikiwiki-based services, and their interaction with chat, teleconference?, email and live meeting?s.
campaign work
Craig's first environmental campaign work was in 1977 helping prevent the destruction of a coastal community in the LaHave Islands of Nova Scotia and preserving the common land? status of the largest island in the group, which was slated for development as a federal national park. The park moved to Port Joli, the Lunenburg County Council moved to protect its common lands "forever" (a rare word in politics) and today there are two places for sea kayakers to visit. This campaign involved a boat-borne protest up the LaHave River to Bridgewater, a petition which could only gather signatures (or X's) by rowing to each island in the group, and the organizing of the first community activist group ever seen in the area. The effort was largely led by his father, Douglas Hubley, an early advocate of ecological design, systems thinking and low impact life.
Craig was involved in many campaigns while working in industry and was often an advocate of reducing the materials and energy impact of work habits and practices. He was very active in the usability and ergonomics community 1987-94 and twice served as Performance Chair of ACM CHI. He was involved in many professional efforts to make computer supported cooperative work? simpler and using it to fight groupthink - including a groupthink of the dotcom era that "more technology is good". His activism came to center on privacy and in 2000 at CFP he presented his view of appropriate privacy for political organizations - as little as possible: political organizations direct and reduce violence and the degree to which they are open is the degree to which they work. He was probably thus one of the earliest advocates of an open party.
In 1999 he was involved in anti-MAI activities that later became part oft the anti-globalization movement. Also in that year he had been instrumental in driving the Green Party of Ontario to adopt Green URIs, an end to the URL and 404 problem and web form?s to simplify its policy work. He, with Greg Bonser and Tom Salsberg and Andrew Roy, proposed the first version of The Green Ethic to the GPO. He was a co-founder of the Free University of Toronto? and helped recruit teachers for over forty courses per term of free classes offered on the U of T's downtown campus. With Elan Ohayan?, Oriel Varga?, Tooker Gomberg, Joe Healy? and others, he was a regular Allen Gardens Project? supporter - spending one night a week, in all weather, sleeping with inadequate shelter with the homeless in that park.
Municipally, he also supported Jane Jacobs' proposal for a Province of Toronto - soon publicly supported by Mayor Mel Lastman and Councillors Michael Walker, Michael Prue and David Miller. He helped lobby against the Adams Mine Dump?, in a campaign led mostly by Tooker Gomberg with Jack Layton and Miller in support. The dump was defeated. One of Hubley's proudest moments was leading dozens of activists from an anti-globalization meeting to physically occupy Toronto City Hall for all of Thanksgiving weekend, 2000. Lastman pronounced it "the worst crowd we've EVER had in this chamber." The wild cheer helped kill the dump for good.
Hubley then founded (with candidate Rob Nevin? ) the Toronto-Danforth EDA of the Green Party of Canada and served as its first EDA president. He recruited several candidates to run for the Greens in the Canadian federal election, 2000 under Joan Russow? but refused to run himself to focus on Nevin's campaign and Gomberg for Mayor? of Toronto. Primary achievements of Gomberg's run were:
- the commitment by Lastman to 100% waste diversion by 2010
- the appointment of Jane Jacobs to the CIty's charter committee
- a promise by Mel Lastman and Jean Chretien to spend C$700M on the Toronto housing crisis?
It was largely Dan King however who delivered on this promise, as, after these elections in November 2000, Hubley left Toronto for Niagara, but remained involved in the Green response to the NDP's New Politics Initiative and met on this with federal NDP leader Alexa McDonough? in April 2001. Hubley was opposed to any "merger' with the NDP itself but proposed working together on electoral reform, peacemaking?, sustainable trades and global environmental security. His arguments that "we have different heroes" and that "we put ecological wisdom first" may have convinced McDonough to add "sustainability" to the NDP's list of values, which she did at its convention later in 2001.
Hubley worked mostly quietly on policy research and global campaigns in 2001-2. Some papers in social policy and public sector management and accounting are visible on this no-longer wiki site
. He was first to propose a simultaneous policy wiki to the Global Greens? in 2002. He returned to Nova Scotia in mid-2002.In 2003 he focused on learning about rural issues to the same depth as he had mastered urban issues, on the application of reflexive intranets in Green politics, on moral purchasing support.
He was active in the Canadian federal election, 2004, writing the position papers City as Art and When Nations Are Neighbours, and keeping the Answers to Questionnaires 2004 coordinated. He was one of several contributors to the Policy FAQ and party platform comparison chart. See also Hubley's own comparison
which is more detailed on some issues than the Party's own chart. He defined the IPA and other key structures of the GPC's Living Platform.Also in 2004 he was the instigator of Imagine Halifax .ca
. This relied upon a wiki-based citizen platform composed of dozens of citizen initiatives? composed from July to October 2004 under the direction of Angela Bischoff (widow of Tooker Gomberg) who organized a loose group of about fifty activists. In the Halifax municipal election a candidate survey? asked for responses to these positions and new ideas from the candidates - and also for new questions and people to ask - making it a delphi. Candidates were scored and their more innovative suggestions compiled into overviews to help establish the difference between citizen and candidate positions.GPC process work
He was an early advisor to the Living Platform project, invited by longstanding colleague Michael Pilling in as one of several critical trolls. Other GPC intranet efforts have also applied his advice.
He and Saul Bottcher? are responsible for the Terms of Use and the general principle of making all political discourse open content and all Party dialogues or papers open for any non-commercial use. His key papers on this approach are five levels of intranet, Efficient Politics, reflexive intranet and twelve levers.
In 2005 he supports extending the Living Platform via the Living Agenda and Lean Green Machine and Green Bay box proposals. See other practical proposals on the list of process proposals. He also supports using BlackBerry and text message? facilities to extend answer recommendation into the all-candidates meeting?s and other public forums.
His objective is an optimal campaign and lobby support and answer recommendation system.
other process work
He is also helping organize the followup to make Imagine Halifax an ongoing way to set municipal citizens' agendas. He is also working with dowire.org on case study? of e-government - a term Craig doesn't like much.
The list of process papers includes some written by Hubley and is a good overview of the priorities involved in organizing a political party.
In January 2005, Craig was accused of being boring.
current policy work
His policy work is focused on arts, urban?, economics, sustainable trades, emergency preparedness?, rural sustainable development?. The list of position papers includes some of Hubley's papers.
He works with the Civic Efficiency Group and the new GPNS on policy advocacy, notably in Toronto and in Halifax. He was the primary editor of several planks of ImagineHalifax.ca
during the October 2004 municipal elections there.Several reports to the City of Toronto and Minister of State John Godfrey
advise specific measures to make cities easier to manage in emergencies and cheaper to run day to day. These same recommendations go to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities at the FCM's own 2005 conference in June in St. John's?.Craig is focusing his 2005 policy work on infrastructure and design and related accounting reform. See the paper Beyond GAAP on this.
tolerances
He is reputed to be dozens to hundreds of notorious trolls. He makes a policy of not denying it, since this provides cover to those of similar views and practices. He takes however specific accusations of having written specific things very seriously. If you say he did, you better have either proof or a good lawyer. He is sympathetic to those who propose funding public interest projects by suing operators of blogs, wikis and mailing lists that allow indiscriminate libel, etc..
He is a frequent critic of tikiwiki and especially of blogs. He gripes about the incredibly bad naming schemes that make Green Politics, for instance, a different article than green politics, and allow names to be different from Wikipedia's names for the same thing. In his view, this is disastrous, and creates "ghettoes" in which "green terms" evolve separately from "media terms". Until this is fixed he sees no point in contributing more deeply, since the work is ignored and has no chance of actually influencing the current public terms.
In Living Platform he mostly writes position papers and Green Politics essays. Some focus on stupidity which he sees as driving the Green Party of Canada's Council at present:
intolerances
He is not a member of the GPC and refuses to rejoin until the GPC purges itself of various people of provably poor ethics and deals with its serious internal libel and competence issues.
He is not a supporter of the current GPC leader Jim Harris and openly calls Harris a Pointy Haired Boss, arguing that he must have no role in internal affairs. Hubley has stated publicly that Party Chair Bruce Abel must resign for incompetence, and the ERCT be dissolved for being contrary to the Six Principles - see Efficient Politics.
He believes that the Green Party should practice green politics in its internal management and green economics in its purchasing. He advocates removing full-time employee or full-time contractor of the GPC and making more "green" part-time and job-sharing arrangements that will not center on Toronto nor on Ottawa.
He also considers the press release and Answers to Questionnaires pipelines in particular to have been poorly managed in the Canadian federal election, 2004, and will not volunteer to work on these again with full-timers in the way.
preferences
That said, Craig is actually a fungi (note modified self-claim in line with trolls' feedback in comments below) to hang out with if you are not one of the following people on his "must resign" list: Debbie Hartley, Ken Ashdown, Kevin Colton, Sheila Richardson, Dermod Travis. Craig believes these people could do something else that would do less damage to the Greens and more good for their own careers. The catalogue of damage these people have done and are doing is immense. As these are all allies of Jim Harris it would seem that there is something they have in common.
Craig would also prefer that Jim stop pretending to be an expert in the learning organization. Such organizations don't have people in them who call in camera meetings in a panic to try to eject people who are asking reasonable questions about their agenda.
Until the Green Party of Canada Living Platform was taken over undemocratically, Craig said he "would still prefer the GPC to succeed than fail, which is why he bothers to edit this page. But if it succeeds by methods that involve unethical practices, the entire message of the GPC will be lost. Of these the very WORST unethical practices are those of the AFP." Since then, AFP smear campaigner Michael Pastore has been put in charge of GPC fundraising after the suspension of elected Councillor Kathryn Holloway - who was not consulted. The so-called GPC-DEMGOV? committee has failed even to comment on the GPC Governance fiasco or GPC Council crisis as if somehow governance did not apply to those prescribing changes to the country's governance, etc.
As noted in main article Craig Hubley, he now supports geo-libertarians who seek to decentralize Canada into a bioregional democracy. The Green Federation of Canada is a proposal to achieve this that would have no connection to the failed Green Party of Canada.
done in 2006
Hubley has decided to publicize his work with or on or for openpolitics.ca itself openly on this page, and encourages other regular editors to do likewise. Direct comments regarding this work or its quality to User_talk:Craig_Hubley. Please note that this report belongs at User:Craig_Hubley/done?
2006-01-08: 3 hours editing:
- backpedal, structural metaphor, vehicle metaphor, term:backpedal, talk:link to deal with OP upgrades and next openpolitics.ca? and how to avoid further backpedalling hopefully in future
- openpolitics.ca itself, what openpolitics.ca is not, talk:what openpolitics.ca is not, itself, out of scope to clarify reflexive methods of determining mission, mandate, and claims made in this wiki about itself that help to direct it.
- talk:spam, spam, delete version, senior editor guidelines to state and justify various anti-spam actions that affect page history in possibly controversial ways, and demonstrate wiki best practice of justifying any possibly controversial behaviour clearly in extremely operational? terms
- wiki dogma, wiki ideology, talk:wiki, wiki to remove provably false claims and provably unreliable sources and clarify relation of technically motivated ideologies to politically motivated ones, i.e. the "term:progress?" from theocracy of a GodKing? to consensus democracy of an OP steering commitee?.
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