This idea is fairly straightforward. Could you point to specific issues and how it is
bureaucratic?
----- Original Message ----
From: Ryan <wiki.ral315(a)gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 7:21:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Community Assembly
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd(a)yahoo.com>
wrote:
The Wikimedia Community Assembly is a proposed
leadership body for the
Wikimedia Community. This proposal is is designed to be significantly more
straightforward, inclusive, and less bureaucratic than the Wikicouncil or
Community of the Wikimedian Projects. The impetus for this proposal is the
void that currently exists in community governance. This gap is prohibitive
to the full realization of the potential of the community as an asset to the
Foundation. To address this gap, its most important task would providing a
unified community voice to the Board and the world.
In accordance with the principles of the open source movement, membership
in the Assembly would be granted to any Wikimedian who requests it. By doing
so, this would prevent this body from becoming a elitist cabal, by insuring
that all are heard, not just a privileged few. To prevent this body from
being dragged down by size, which does not allow for business to be
conducted in an orderly and efficent fashion, subgroups
(Committees/Commissions/Working Groups/Task Forces) specializing in specific
issues would be created. Any 5 members with a specific issue or topic would
be able to create a subgroup to work on that issue or topic. Membership in
these issue specific subgroups would be open to all, but if necessary due to
size, another group might be formed.
The Assembly would run according to a community written charter, that would
be revised at least once every calendar year. Decisions of the Assembly
would be made by consensus, as with most other Wikimedian projects.
Can I get some thoughts on this?
Frankly, it sounds like yet another idea that is much more bureaucratic than
it's worth, and one that doesn't solve any problem currently before us.
You've already created more rules for this assembly than it could possibly
make for itself.
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