Andrew said:
Having this preliminary council be much larger is
just going to add
complexity to the whole process.
And I couldn't agree more. Until "what this council does" is defined,
it's hard to decide anything as a large group. This is precisely why
this proposal has never moved this far forward before, is because
there are too many people discussing it. This touches on a minor
scalability flaw with doing things by "consensus," but I digress.
Hopefully, a small group tasked with this can produce results where
the wider community cannot. In a sense, I see a comparison with
the elections committee. If the entire community were tasked with
things such as suffrage, entry requirements, etc., the elections
wouldn't happen on a timely scale. Same with this Wikicouncil.
-Chad
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Dan Rosenthal
<swatjester(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I disagree, I think that this council (the
provisional one) should be
larger, regardless of whether the final council's size is adjusted or
not.
I'm under the impression, mistaken as it may be, that the role of this
council is small. we're going to be looking to set things like the
size and composition of the final council. We are going to determine
the specifics of how a council should operate, set up the first
"elections" or whatever for members, and then we are done.
Having this preliminary council be much larger is just going to add
complexity to the whole process. The faster we answer the relevant
problems, the faster we can install a true representative council. I'm
highly interested in project diversity, and I'm also highly
sympathetic to Gerard M's goals of language diversity as well. If
these things can be satisified in a reasonable way, we all win. If
not, maybe it will not be worthwhile for us to create a wikicouncil in
the first place.
--Andrew Whitworth
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