Hoi,
Given that the language committee is in the business of STARTING projects,
there is no community, it is exactly one of the criteria for starting a
project that there is one. When people who do not speak a language vote in
order to have one, it is of no relevance at all. You may have noticed that
voting is of little or no relevance for the language committee. When a
language is recognised as such, we generally allow for a new project.
Recognition is based on a living language recognised by the ISO-639-3.
When I ask you and Ray a pointed question, it is exactly because both of you
are candidates for a seat on the board of trustees. Pointed questions are
called for because they do not give room to weasel out of taking a
position.. Then again, you can always flatly refuse to answer and make that
seem reasonable.
I am not asking about other committees, I am not involved in them and do not
have much of an opinion on them.
Thanks,
GerardM
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Gerard Meijssen wrote:
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Jussi-Ville
Heiskanen <
cimonavaro(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>> Without commenting on any of the contentions between Ray and Gerard
> apparent in this message, it does highlight a glaring omission in
> the relative powershareing definitions in bylaws of the foundation
> and committee and communities and projects and individual
> contributor relations.
>
> No one has ever clarified what the precise role of the committees
> is. Not as a general case. Each one seems to have been generated
> as a special case, with diverging operative assumptions. This
> confusion sorely needs to be clarified in the future.
>
> Yours
>
> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Hoi,
Jussi-Ville my question to you: are we a talking shop or are we to do
what
we aim to do?
Thanks,
GerardM
First, let me thank you for giving me the opportunity to fix your
problem of top posting.
My concern is that there are several things here at play.
There is what the committees (all of them, not just your
pet one) are *tasked* to do.
There is what the committees themselves internally evolve
to *aim* to do.
There is what the communities expect the committes to do.
There is what some disgruntled or otherwise, individuals
expect the committees to do.
There are several official resolutions for each of the
several committees founding etc. which are not even
close to being phrased similarly, which does, whether
you like it or not, create a source of confusion as to
the role of the several committees.
None of this is clarified. And asking a very pointed
question at me, who had no part in the resolutions that
created any of the committees, serves very little purpose
of clarifying any of it.
Yours
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen.
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