On 16 November 2012 13:06, Osmar Valdebenito osmar@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.