diff --git a/scaling-community-decision-making/abstract.md b/scaling-community-decision-making/abstract.md
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--- a/scaling-community-decision-making/abstract.md
+++ b/scaling-community-decision-making/abstract.md
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-# Scaling Community Decision-making
+# Scaling Community Discussion and Decision-making
 
 Any Free/Libre Open Source Software project will have elements of [do-ocracy](http://data.agaric.com/drupal-do-ocracy) (rule of those who do the work) but not all decisions should devolve to implementors.  Rather, a basic principle is that decisions should be made by the people who are most affected.
 
 Particularly when a decision strongly affects more than those who carry it out, therefore, we need better ways of making decisions that give everyone their say.  This starts by letting people by heard by everyone else.  Fortunately, we can scale conversations and decisions in a fair and truly democratic way.
 
-  * Learn why meritocracy ("rule of those with merit") is a completely bogus and harmful concept.
+  * Learn why meritocracy ("rule of those with merit") is a bogus and harmful concept.
   * Gain a passing familiarity with various ways decisions are or have been made in Drupal and other projects.
   * Add sociocracy and sortition to your vocabulary and understand how these esoteric concepts can help our community scale.
   * See how [Drutopia](https://drutopia.org) is putting more democratic decision-making approaches into practice.
@@ -14,12 +14,16 @@ The most important things we have to do need to be done together.  And our work
 
 
 
-Twitter-sized promo: How can a group of thousands of people talk about and decide anything?  How's this community thing and having a say supposed to work, even in theory?
+Twitter-sized promo: How can a group of thousands of people talk about and decide anything?  How's this 'community' concept supposed to work, even in theory?
 
 
 drupal community // big ideas // leadership
 
 
+***
+
+a space not dictated from above where everyone has a say
+
 ***
 
 the people most affected by decisions should be those making them
diff --git a/scaling-community-decision-making/drupal-community.md b/scaling-community-decision-making/drupal-community.md
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--- a/scaling-community-decision-making/drupal-community.md
+++ b/scaling-community-decision-making/drupal-community.md
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ And we don't think about it enough.
 
 And for good reason.
 
-The average free software project
+The average free software project has one contributor.
 
 For most of us outside work, our coordination is thin, and attempts to formalize structures could easily kill what we have.