2008/9/8 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
That isn't central. What what is central is how to go forward and doing so. While learning lessons from WMUK 1.0 is important focusing on individuals is unlikely to help us learn those lessons.
If you have a better idea, speak up.
Best we can tell it is not a good idea to leave a group of fairly isolated people to do the startup without much in the way of ways to effectively monitor progress and some idea over when the situation is throwing up red flags. I think these are both things we are endeavoring to fix in WMUK 2.0 Both by trying to arrange things so there is a significant wider community interest in progress and some form of timetable by which we can judge progress. Ideally we can tell there are issues within 3 months and that it is time to drop and start again in 6.
At the moment we are trying to keep people interested through the board elections. Once those are complete we can hope to keep interest by monitoring progres. Discussion of possible future projects and collecting a list of groups and people that might be useful to contact once WMUK 2.0 is up and running.