[Foundation-l] New list admin: Ral315

Mon Aug 18 17:45:36 UTC 2008

Milos Rancic wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Gerard Meijssen
> <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hoi,
>> Great idea we might call it a volunteer council :) Maybe this council can
>> liaise strongly with Cary in stead of making him the head honcho ...
>> Thanks,
>>        GerardM
>>
>> NB no irony intended !!
>>     
>
> There are two different starting points between the Council and the
> Committee intentions: Council was intended to represent (somehow)
> community's (or communities') will, while committee is a working body
> with a particular goal. With or without council, for me it is obvious
> that we should have a body which manages volunteers' enthusiasm toward
> higher involvement. (And, according to the size of the volunteer
> community, this is not a job for one person.)
>   

It is not a job for a committee either.

I think a better way of looking at the matter would be to
approach it from the direction of how it looks to Cary;

Is there stuff he would be able to accomplish in his area
of responsibility if only there were more hours in a day?

Are there things that he personally could not be able to
accomplish even if there were 72 hours in a day, but some
other person with complementary skills _might_ be able
to accomplish?

Or is the situation as Cary sees it such that no matter
how much time or men you threw at it, pretty much the
same things would get accomplished, but merely with
a greater expenditure of people and time?

In short, better than a committee or "squad" or whatever,
would be to split the task into two or more complementary
areas of responsibility, *if* that is what Cary thinks would
be useful.

Yours,

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen