On 3/22/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
As I said, I think most of the problems are emergent behaviour of a large volunteer organisation.
Are there relevant antecedents to what we're doing here? The OED ran (and runs) on volunteer contributions, but doesn't have an emergent bureaucracy of volunteers.
Hmm. Most volunteer organisations start with structures dictating officers, power structures, decision making etc. We haven't needed that, but we're starting to need to formalise our decision making a bit.
Steve