Evan Prodromou wrote:
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 22:51 -0500, Andrew Leung wrote:
Besides, very little people use Google Talk. MSN is much more convenient than others.
I don't think we could pick a better illustration for the problems with Wikimedia Canada than this little conversation. We've spent the last few years squabbling over this kind of trivial detail, and it's exactly what has kept us from making this chapter happen.
Not really; people have been too silent about this to squabble. Good specific proposals have been made by various persons, but serious commentary and discussion has been remarkably absent.
For me drafting by-laws is relatively easy, but if we are going to build an organisation that attaches great importance on free and open participation then people are just going to have to participate responsibly. The price that one pays for a participatory system is participation. That means more than hoping that a panic-born chat room conversation will bring a quick fix.
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