[Foundation-l] New list admin: Ral315

Mon Aug 18 14:13:19 UTC 2008

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> *wonders why this mailing list always edits Cary's job...* :p

Sue (or the Board) did the right thing when they hired a person for
coordinating volunteers. Unlike for the majority of particular tasks,
I didn't saw any grass-root intention toward making such kind of body.
We like to talk about politics, policies, principles etc., but not a
lot about ordinary things, like -- how to function as a project,
community etc.; as well as it is almost impossible to find community
members who are ready to work on ordinary issues which are not visible
("ah, it is so boring..."). There are no a lot of people who like to
drive trains, buses, who like to move garbage from streets, to care
about playgrounds in the neighborhood... And there are a lot of
analogies between real life communal tasks and virtual space ones.

But, if there is someone who is already doing that, it is easy to say
"drive me to Venice" or "it would be really good if you would take
garbage from my house, so I wouldn't need to go out of my house".

And to be more serious: I realized now (after the issue with
candidates was raised) that the main reason why a lot of people are
willing to change description of Cary's job is -- that position is
very needed for the community and, as I said few times already, it is
not a size of job which one person may do. So, we need to think how to
solve that. And, "solving that" is much more community's job than
Cary's.