Some good points. We definitely want control over what a volunteer lawyer or public relations person is doing.
Fred
On Jun 9, 2006, at 8:41 AM, Kelly Martin wrote:
On 6/9/06, Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net wrote:
Tight control of "volunteers" is standard operating practice at almost all nonprofits, a management practice that can only produce big trouble here. Some insight into how our process works is necessary.
There's a difference between our editors and our volunteers. Our editors are, in many ways, our customers, almost as much as our readers are. Our volunteers are the people who serve on our myriad committees, who speak for Wikimedia with the press and with donors, the people who handle OTRS, our developers, our server administrators, and others working in a Foundation-related role. It makes sense for us to exercise tighter control over these people than we do now, and we can certainly do so without impacting the open editing aspect of our projects that has been so successful so far.
I'm undecided as to whether the Foundation should exercise more control over project administrators; I think this is an issue that needs to be discussed in more depth than it has to date.
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