Hi @imacryptorick Many thanks for your thoughts on this. Concerning the general direction I think we are quite on the same line:

Main goal is to identify tasks in favour of the steem ecosystem in a joint way and get them done.

Incentives are needed for this - for some this may be visibility, for others direct payment, and for even others advantages for their own business...

Some kind of formalised rules within a taskforce are certainly helpful to get and keep things moving. These rules could cover collection and distribution of funds, decision making within the task force, organisation of collaboration

Somewhat internally formalised structures are definitely needed.

Our main point of discussion seems to be: do we need voting or other formalised procedures to establish structures with a formalised mandate of the Steem community or not. I think we definitely should not go for a formalised mandate via voting. Why?

A task force established in consensus during an SOS-forum is just as formalised as a group of people being elected. The only difference - the procedure isn't as formalised as an election process.

Voting is not a very good procedure to find out where to go in complex situations. The SOS forums are a much better way to do so - exchanging arguments, collecting proposals and finally delegating a task - including open questions - to a task force or a circle of action or whatever... As long as these structures are open for engaged newcomers there won't be much arguments about their existence.

In a decentralised community voting leads to much more centralisation than delegating tasks to an open group. Because of this I think if we go for voting, we could get into very time-consuming debates concerning who has the right to vote, who defines what is subject to a vote, what power does an elected person have... .

What's the background of my proposals: I've been working with open networks for about 20 years now, and they work best, when they don't start with formalised procedures but with action. Going this way they'll identify, where formalism is needed. Very often the first step to formalise things is for example setting up a "code of conduct".

One last point:
Concerning the duality of committee and task force/circle of action: this is overdoing it completely. More structures doesn't mean the system works better. It just introduces more and more need to define who does what.
For visibility and progress reports we could use the SOS forums and the SOS daily news - we don't need committees for this.

I'm looking forward to further exchange on this topic wth you @imacryptoric @starkerz @pennsif