Gregory Maxwell wrote:
Still, I think it would be productive to look at the various techniques for government transparency and look for things which could be productively applied here.
I've long found it amusing that agents speaking for Wiki[pm]edia have claimed a revolutionary level of transparency while in many areas the level of transparency is below the level required by some governments of themselves by law. Certantly some aspects of the project are very open but a revolutionarily open document management system should not be confused for transparency in governance.
Thanks for your reply, Gregory. I take your points, e.g. that probably only a few in the Foundation knew about the 'secret' mailing list, and it's difficult to make rules to cover all possibilities on lists. But I think you are right, in that it's still worth trying to achieve a greater level of transparency in governance for the reasons you gave.