Marc Riddell wrote:
Hi Marc,
Here are a couple of links that are relevant to this topic, as well as being relevant to some recent posts on the role of the Foundation. They reference the idea of a membership driven community rather than a 'top-down' organization. Maybe we've come full circle. It would be helpful to hear from those who participated in the events described, as well as Alex. Thanks
Thank you for this, Luke. History is becoming less and less of a mystery, and is making more and more sense of the present. The paths toward change are becoming clearer and clearer.
Marc
Marc,
Someone said: from history to mystery - the reluctance to be born.
Or as someone more famous put it:
The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/ch01.htm
Decisions taken on our behalf - taken by people who think they know best - leading to more bureaucracy, less independence for individual Wikimedia chapters.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters
Less diversity for no real advantage. What a sad trade-off, don't you think. Doubly so, in the network/wiki age.
HUBRIS written in large letters, and we have to live with the consequences: Endless discussions on perfecting our "organization" - *yuk*
Take care