[Foundation-l] Provisional Volunteer Council - proposal sent to the Board
Chad
innocentkiller at gmail.com
Tue Apr 1 15:01:08 UTC 2008
Andrew said:
> Having this preliminary council be much larger is just going to add
> complexity to the whole process.
And I couldn't agree more. Until "what this council does" is defined,
it's hard to decide anything as a large group. This is precisely why
this proposal has never moved this far forward before, is because
there are too many people discussing it. This touches on a minor
scalability flaw with doing things by "consensus," but I digress.
Hopefully, a small group tasked with this can produce results where
the wider community cannot. In a sense, I see a comparison with
the elections committee. If the entire community were tasked with
things such as suffrage, entry requirements, etc., the elections
wouldn't happen on a timely scale. Same with this Wikicouncil.
-Chad
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I disagree, I think that this council (the provisional one) should be
> > larger, regardless of whether the final council's size is adjusted or
> > not.
>
> I'm under the impression, mistaken as it may be, that the role of this
> council is small. we're going to be looking to set things like the
> size and composition of the final council. We are going to determine
> the specifics of how a council should operate, set up the first
> "elections" or whatever for members, and then we are done.
>
> Having this preliminary council be much larger is just going to add
> complexity to the whole process. The faster we answer the relevant
> problems, the faster we can install a true representative council. I'm
> highly interested in project diversity, and I'm also highly
> sympathetic to Gerard M's goals of language diversity as well. If
> these things can be satisified in a reasonable way, we all win. If
> not, maybe it will not be worthwhile for us to create a wikicouncil in
> the first place.
>
> --Andrew Whitworth
>
>
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