[Foundation-l] the easy way or the less easy way

[Ray Saintonge]

Phoebe Ayers wrote:

>On 6/17/06, Erik Moeller <eloquence at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>I suggest that a workshop be set up at Wikimania to discuss these
>>things in person; in addition, if you want my personal thoughts on
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>Heck yes. Would having it over lunch suit? Otherwise, it would
>conflict with sessions (or have to be before or after, on Thur./Mon.)
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>As ever, such things can be discussed/proposed here:
>http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_online
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I support the general idea.  I don't know if a lunch session would be 
long enough to do justice to the question.  Perhaps an open-ended 
evening session?

Judging by some of the views expressed already this could be a fairly 
heavy duty session.  Airing these kinds of things at a meeting like this 
should be done with a view of building consensus.  All persons active in 
some aspect of wiki governance should be there.  I would not make this a 
closed meeting (too unwiki!), but people who have not been following 
this discussion before the meeting should be warned that the nature of 
the discussions could be very boring for them.

I would also suggest that a written agenda be available before the 
meeting starts, and that the meeting be chaired by a person with a track 
record in consensus building.

Ec