[Foundation-l] Global rights proposal

[John Vandenberg]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Kaare Olsen <kaare at nightcall.dk> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:46:24 +0200
> "Milos Rancic" <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > The local 'crats should be responsible for putting forward the view
>> > of their project in the meta "vote", and they should be allowed to
>> > do so in any language, but of course English would be preferred.
>>
>> Yes, it is a good idea to give that responsibility to local
>> bureaucrats.
>
> Except that, in my view, that's changing an internal technical role
> into an external representative, akin to an ambassador

The practise is that the 'crat is a person with a long history with
the project; on smaller wikis they are usually the person who pushed
for it to exist in the first place.

Also, the technical role is one that requires the ability to
comprehend the consensus of the community.

> (no, that's not supposed to be an idea for a new level of bureaucracy).

"Ambassador" has a nice ring to it :-)

--
John