--- Anthere Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Problem is Mav... Some members of the committees are neither board members, nor officers, no members of chapters. They are just simply themselves, good people we like and trust....
And when they become official members of a committee, then they will have an official role in the organization. They will be trusted with at least one part of the organization. Thus they should have to place where internal matters are worked on; internal wiki. Sounds like it will be possible to make incidental viewing of things they don't need to view possible (yet hackable for some time ; but if they are trusted already, then we should be able to trust that they won't try to hack into things they shouldn't be seeing).
Finance, for example, will be working on draft financial reports. We need a place to put those that are not public until after the board (or the committee itself if so designated by the board) approves them for publication. If we had those on a FinanceWiki, then nobody else in the organization will be aware of them and none of them will be able to comment on them or add their input. We NEED that kind of back and forth, especially for things like budgeting.
If, however, only a small part of finance committee has access to InternalWiki and we have the draft documents there, then the other members of the committee might as well not be on the committee at all since they don't have access to the place where the work is being done.
But my biggest point is this; If we can't trust members of the finance committee with keeping sensitive non-financial matters confidential, then how the hell can we trust them to keep sensitive financial matters confidential? Trust is trust. We either trust them or we don't.
Only problem, there is some confidential stuff on the internal wiki, and some people might be unhappy that all committees members are given access to it.
'Some people might be unhappy' is not a valid reason. If that were valid, then the fact that I'm unhappy about balkanization should carry just as much weight.
-- mav
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