Hi,
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Samuel Klein<meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I have never been comfortable with the proliferation of Wikimedia
lists. ComProj is one of the ones that I love in spirit and
principle, because it is an open project that is compatible with any
number of copies of itself. But I would find it much easier to
contribute to comproj-related initiatives if they were discussed on,
say, foundation-l and #wikimedia. You could start all of those
threads with [comproj] if you wanted.
You're pointing to the wrong issue. The issue is not that "people
don't contribute to Comproj activities because they're discussed on a
dedicated list / IRC channel". The issue is that "Comproj is mostly
dead because the foundation staff doesn't provide any guidance to
volunteer groups such as Comproj". Comproj has been very successful
for short-term, specific tasks where their help was requested on the
list (the PR cleanup inventory for instance).
The bottom line is that while professionalizing itself, the foundation
has slowly been forgetting their volunteer basis (and the awesome
support they can provide).
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Guillaume Paumier
[[m:User:guillom]]
http://www.gpaumier.org