As the months pass, there are less people at assemblies, and more assemblies are spent debating how to meet and coordinate between assemblies, or ratifying proposals from other assemblies – very boring and the best solution some people have is to just leave. There are various efforts to interoperate but nothing definite – which to some is good. The assembly organisers tend to be the most active people within existing groups and not for their fault end up having more say in things. To be active in an assembly long term takes dedication and a lot of free time, so they tend to be unemployed people with a lot of issues of their own. Another issue is the cold – now that winter is coming assemblies need a warm place or catalans will never sit out in the cold like the more weather hardy irish or canadians! I hope this and other critical articles can be printed in many languages so as to help people keep aware that assemblies might seem powerful but are still very fragile, and their future is still very unsure.