Hallo Lourie, that's great to know. From the India process, my experience is
that if we allocate responsibility (let's say, by dividing up the task of
whipping the text into shape for submission to chapcom) then things happen
faster and more easily. So perhaps you can collect the people willing to do
some part of this work and split it up between you? Once that is done,
sorting through the comments is left largely to the person doing it.
In this phase, to get the bye-laws and articles in order, it's important
that decisions are made without feeling guilty, or without waiting for large
scale participation - though it would be great to have it. As such, any
participation that has happened thus far is great, and you (and anyone else
making decisions on the final text) would only be doing everyone else a
favour by taking firm, reasoned decisions.
Good wishes, and good luck on this,
Achal
On 20 November 2010 17:53, Lourie Pieterse <louriepieterse(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Hello Achal
Currently there is some people busy working through the comments. The
problem is that there are so little people doing so, so it is hard to make
some of the core decisions. During the past week David made a large amount
of comments. Robert also helped out with a lot of the comments. I talked
just the other day with Kerryn, but it seems like she is very busy on the
moment.
A lot of the discussions regarding the proposed documents happen behind the
scenes, so I just wanted to let you know it is happening, even though it
doesn’t look so. :)
Kind regards,
Lourie
--- On *Sat, 11/20/10, Achal Prabhala <aprabhala(a)gmail.com>* wrote:
From: Achal Prabhala <aprabhala(a)gmail.com>
Subject: [Wikimedia ZA] moving forward
To: wikimediaza(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Saturday, November 20, 2010, 7:30 AM
Dear all,
This seems like a good time to take stock. We have extensive feedback
(internal and external) on the proposed rules for a Wikimedia SA chapter; we
have a group of individuals who have kindly offered us their time and
attention as Directors of the potential chapter (thank you!)
It would seem like the right time for the group who have offered to lead
this effort to decide amongst themselves and divide responsibilities going
forward (since there is some time away from the chapter becoming a reality).
The first thing that needs to be done is for someone to sift through the
suggestions made, see which to apply and which to reject, make the changes
all around, then run them through Tobias (the primary drafter) and Kerryn
one more time, and finally send on to the chapters committee on behalf of
all of us in order to open up the chapter conversation.
Can those who've stepped up to the task of directing Wikimedia SA begin
with this?
Cheers,
Achal
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