[Foundation-l] Provisional Volunteer Council - proposal sent to the Board

[Chad]

Andrew said:
>  Having this preliminary council be much larger is just going to add
>  complexity to the whole process.

And I couldn't agree more. Until "what this council does" is defined,
it's hard to decide anything as a large group. This is precisely why
this proposal has never moved this far forward before, is because
there are too many people discussing it. This touches on a minor
scalability flaw with doing things by "consensus," but I digress.

Hopefully, a small group tasked with this can produce results where
the wider community cannot. In a sense, I see a comparison with
the elections committee. If the entire community were tasked with
things such as suffrage, entry requirements, etc., the elections
wouldn't happen on a timely scale. Same with this Wikicouncil.

-Chad

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > I disagree, I think that this council (the provisional one) should be
>  >  larger, regardless of whether the final council's size is adjusted or
>  >  not.
>
>  I'm under the impression, mistaken as it may be, that the role of this
>  council is small. we're going to be looking to set things like the
>  size and composition of the final council. We are going to determine
>  the specifics of how a council should operate, set up the first
>  "elections" or whatever for members, and then we are done.
>
>  Having this preliminary council be much larger is just going to add
>  complexity to the whole process. The faster we answer the relevant
>  problems, the faster we can install a true representative council. I'm
>  highly interested in project diversity, and I'm also highly
>  sympathetic to Gerard M's goals of language diversity as well. If
>  these things can be satisified in a reasonable way, we all win. If
>  not, maybe it will not be worthwhile for us to create a wikicouncil in
>  the first place.
>
>  --Andrew Whitworth
>
>
>
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