Directed to potential participants in upcoming WSF seminar (May 23, 2014) and an Nepal SF event from 12-14 September, 2014, in september, here are some elements of "vocabulary" commonly used around a Social Forum forum event, which may be clarifying: clarifying

"WSF Nepal" is a "process" of participation and interactions between participating organisations that is culminating in an "event"
It is not an "organization", so one may speak of "participants" in Nepal SF event and process, rather than "members". "members"

The social forum event is not a "programme", nor a "conference", it is basically an "openspace", made up of self organised "activities", announced and proposed by one, or preferably more, participating organisations, which consciously and publicly express agreement with the "charter of principles of WSF". WSF"

The charter is expressing some broad values, assumed to be shared by the participants to WSF events, and the fact that no one will express views in the name of WSF Nepal, nepal, which would mean implicitly in the name of all its participants.
http://openfsm.net/projects/ic-methodology/charter-fsm-wsf-en .

shorter remixed version: http://openfsm.net/projects/comcomfsm13/comfsm13-remix-charte/#_Toc332725691 .

WSF Nepal

WSF nepal process is a "tool" co-sustained by its participants, which use activities to dialogue exchange experiences and possibly prepare actions between a certain number of organization. organisation
All declarations made in the openspace of the forum are expected to be made with an explicit list of undersigned organisations.

Quality of the outcomes of a social forum event is collective reponsibility of all its participants and particularly of those involved in the organising/facilitating committee. committee

"Organizing Commitee" of a social forum event is an "informal body" (which will body"( which may or not have closed "membership"), which takes charge of preparing the infrastructure and launching and sustaining the dynamics of participation before during and some time after the event ( for instance around the documentation of activities). activities)

For practical purposes financial and legal organizing responsibilty may lay with a subgroup of organisations while political methodological decision is with wiht the whole organizing committee. committee

There is a document which gives guiding principles on this specific and delicate but promising organizing process .
http://openfsm.net/projects/organizingwsfevents.Link: /projects/organizingwsfevents.
http://openfsm.net/projects/organizingwsfeventsLink: /projects/organizingwsfevents