On 10 June 2015 at 10:42, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com> wrote:
On 08/06/15 11:20, Simon Knight wrote:
I'm not sure it's right to say the panel takes over what was formerly a
staff decision making process. The intention of the panel (which
reports to the
board)
is to advise on how WMUK can best engage
volunteers.
Still an advisory group, rather than a decision making body?
I'd have thought that question were better answered after the proposed
change
in the Articles, which currently hamper devolving actual decisions
to non-Board people. My feeling anyway, and I was saying this on Monday at
the (possibly penultimate) Tech committee meeting, is that process issues
aren't necessarily the decisive ones in making the system work.
Certainly in wiki terms, process sometimes is not the key point in
determining whether collaboration works. There are "ground rules" and
"shared noms" and a general agreement that people want to spend their time
getting stuff done rather than observe others grandstanding.
Certainly, also, offwiki can be stony ground for wiki ways. See my opening
comment about the Articles.
Charles