A stupid question deserves a stupid answer. That paradox will be addressed by periodically revisiting the charter.
----- Original Message ---- From: Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 10:04:56 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Community Assembly
Geoffrey Plourde wrote:
The community charter would be written by the community.
ROTFL How?
We can probably agree that this community is large, even if we can't agree on how to define it. We can't avoid the inevitable paradoxes surrounding that question. We also can't avoid the notion that community is fluid, and that its membership, however defined, changes over time. This creates a situations that advantages the inertial views of those who happened to be there when the community was defined.
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2008/5/12 Geoffrey Plourde geo.plrd@yahoo.com:
A stupid question deserves a stupid answer. That paradox will be addressed by periodically revisiting the charter.
The paradox isn't that the community changes, that was a separate point. The paradox is that the whole point of an assembly is to deal with the problem of the community being too large to make coherent decisions, so requiring the community to decide upon a charter before the assembly can start isn't going to work.
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