On 16 November 2012 13:06, Osmar Valdebenito <osmar(a)wikimediachile.cl> wrote:
Yes, it would be great to have a lot of details and I
haven't seen any
problems by the FDC to provide them as long as you ask them but you can't
expect them to do all that extra work 'for free'.
Yes, you can. When you volunteer for a position like that, you are
making a commitment to put in the necessary work. The "we're just
volunteers" excuse gets rolled out far too often around here.
Volunteers that have made commitments to do a job have an obligation
to do it.
I want to be clear, I'm not saying the FDC haven't done their job -
they seem to have considered the issues very well and the report is,
at least, satisfactory. I'm just saying that being a volunteer isn't
an excuse. We should make certain allowances for volunteers that we
wouldn't make for staff (particularly, we have to be flexible - staff
can be expected to be at their desks between 9am and 5pm, volunteers
do their work whenever then get a spare moment), but we should still
require that jobs are done well. If it turns out to be impossible to
find volunteers willing and able to do a particular job well, then we
need to re-think it.