2008/5/13 Geoffrey Plourde geo.plrd@yahoo.com:
Well is there sufficent support for a Declaration that the Community wants governance?
Defining what "governance" is would be a start, and what extent it needs to go to, and to what extent it's happening already, before we can claim the community wants anything!
The original proposal here, as Thomas pointed out, seems to be that we will have some kind of deliberative body, made up of anyone who cares enough to come along and discuss things, and it will break down into self-collecting groups made up of people interested in specific things, and these groups will attempt to gain consensus.
But! The current community governance is basically "a bunch of people - anyone who cares, really - start arguing about the particular bits they're interested in, in a hundred little groups and knots, but because we want to gain consensus, we never decide anything on a general scale".
The astute reader will, by now, have noticed a certain similarity between these approaches. If it wasn't working the first time, simply naming it "governance" won't make it work better the second time...