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Jul 7 00:54 UTC 1998

You create a new conference by a 3-step process.
1) "join coop" This is the conference where people discuss how Grex is
organized and run.
2) type "read 34"  This will take you to the item called "The Conference
Request Item.
3) Suggest the topic for a new conference by entering a response.

After you have suggested the new conference, users of Grex will discuss the
pros and cons of the topic, suggest similar conferences, and in general try
to come to concensus about whether or not the topic is broad enough to merit
a conference.

Once consensus is reached, if there is agreement that a new conference is
needed, people will be asked if there is someone(s) who is willing to
fairwitness the conference.  Once a fairwitness is named, the staff will
create the new confrenrence.

One good way of assessing whether there is enough interest to create an entire
new conference is to start a few items in the Agora conference.  These should
be the basic topics that might be included in the new conference.  From the
participation levels on these items, you can often tell whether there are
enough people interested in these topics to sustain a conference.