On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Austin Hair adhair@gmail.com wrote:

As previously discussed, the draft proposal (to whom is apparently not yet clear) is at [1], so please weigh in as soon as you can.  Since our working timeline has this made official in just a few days, this is the #1 priority.

Is the draft open to public editing? I expect it is, given the recent post to foundation-l. But I feel that most people following the process are leaving comments rather than making edits, either not feeling ownership or waiting until they understand better the intent of the process.

If the timeline is not set in stone, it might improve public perception of this work to announce more broadly that the proposal is an editable draft, and to make it a proposal to all stakeholders. For the coming Board meeting, we could ask for a general sense of approval (and request a similar sense of approval from the Chapters) rather than asking for a specific page of text to be Formally Ratified by either group. This would also allow us flexibility over time, as the problem space becomes clearer.

SJ