On 3 September 2011 11:14, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 3 September 2011 11:03, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 3 September 2011 10:51, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
The organization itself is not the objective.
+1 What things could WMF do to make itself obsolete as quickly as possible, in as many individual areas as possible?
All sorts of things, but would that be desirable? While the organisation obviously isn't the objective, that doesn't mean that the objective is not to have the organisation. The organisation (or some similar organisation) probably is the best way to achieve the objective.
Indeed, but I suggest it would be a useful exercise, to quite clearly separate useful functions from those assuming perpetuation of the organisation is an implicit goal. The Iron Law of Institutions is real, and won't somehow not happen by being ignored.
- d.