Hi,

short answer: Lack of time

I'm interested in working for Wikiversity, because of this, I joined the ComProj-Group. At the moment - lack of time - I do not much at the German Wikiversity-project "Spread Wikiversity". But in order to support the Wikiversities and our ComProj-Group I created some banners and so on. Look here:

http://de.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Werbebanner http://fr.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversit%C3%A9:Banni%C3%A8res_et_boutons http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Banners_and_buttons

If there's anything to do in Germany (I'm from Germany) so contact me by mail. At the moment I haven't much freetime, but what I can do, I will do... (Hoping this won't be much for the next few months.)

Yours Michael from Germany

2007/11/5, Sean Whitton sean@silentflame.com:

Hello all,

Firstly, this e-mail is not directives or commands or anything like that, but I am throwing lots of ideas around in the hope that they will bounce off some of you. I am thinking that due to a lack of other issues the following could also be discussed exclusively at Wednesday's meeting, so it would be good if as many of our members could attend as possible for this reason as this is pretty important.

I think most of us will admit that right now ComProj is not doing a lot. I think that there are a number of reasons for this, which I will try to outline.

1. Lack of work

In general, we are not being given enough things to do. Those that we do get end up being an individual thing between someone and a ComProj member which is not ideal as it would be better to work more as a group. 2) Lack of participation We don't actually have that many active members right now. We could do with recruiting more or we can't get done what we intend to. 3) Lack of motivation I don't think people are interested in the projects we have. This means nothing gets done. There is no expectation that members should do things they are not interested in in this group (perhaps this is so for the ComCom, but not ComProj which should be enjoyable in all aspects)

So how do we solve this? I think that we need to make some fundamental decisions, as a group, about how we want ComProj to work. Do we need to formalise, bring in membership requirements (i.e. doing work, not that people should be qualified to join initially), or do we need to stop worrying about set projects and simply have a pool of people to access via the mailing list.

Unsurprisingly, since I am chair and we are in this situation, I am stumped. Ideas welcome.

Thanks,

Sean

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I want to apologize to the ComProj group, since I have been quite inactive lately due to my heavy involvement with extracurricular activites. I may be able to make the AU/NZ meetings, however the regular 4:00 meetings I cannot.

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---- Sean Whitton sean@silentflame.com wrote:

Hello all,

Firstly, this e-mail is not directives or commands or anything like that, but I am throwing lots of ideas around in the hope that they will bounce off some of you. I am thinking that due to a lack of other issues the following could also be discussed exclusively at Wednesday's meeting, so it would be good if as many of our members could attend as possible for this reason as this is pretty important.

I think most of us will admit that right now ComProj is not doing a lot. I think that there are a number of reasons for this, which I will try to outline.

1. Lack of work

In general, we are not being given enough things to do. Those that we do get end up being an individual thing between someone and a ComProj member which is not ideal as it would be better to work more as a group. 2) Lack of participation We don't actually have that many active members right now. We could do with recruiting more or we can't get done what we intend to. 3) Lack of motivation I don't think people are interested in the projects we have. This means nothing gets done. There is no expectation that members should do things they are not interested in in this group (perhaps this is so for the ComCom, but not ComProj which should be enjoyable in all aspects)

So how do we solve this? I think that we need to make some fundamental decisions, as a group, about how we want ComProj to work. Do we need to formalise, bring in membership requirements (i.e. doing work, not that people should be qualified to join initially), or do we need to stop worrying about set projects and simply have a pool of people to access via the mailing list.

Unsurprisingly, since I am chair and we are in this situation, I am stumped. Ideas welcome.

Thanks,

Sean

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