[Foundation-l] How to dismantle a language committee

[Jesse Plamondon-Willard]

Muhammad Alsebaey <shipmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
>   - Gerard has been the *only* person from LangCom that I have seen reply
>   to any of the issues, his replies are selective, he refuses to answer
>   whatever he doesnt think is relevant to his argument and is in general very
>   aggressive, If the guys at LangCom chose him as the public face, I would say
>   they were looking to pick fights rather than communicate decisions.

Gerard is definitely not a subcommittee spokesperson. Every word he
and I speak are as individual members, speaking our own opinions.
Discussion with the subcommittee should be done on the mailing list or
on <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Language_subcommittee>, where
I for example frequently respond.


Muhammad Alsebaey <shipmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
>   - After looking on the meta page for the committee, I asked if the
>   committee has any mechanism for determining inactive members, if the process
>   of decision is 'I sent an email and no one objected', that may mean
>   approval, but it also may mean that people are not active. I got no answer
>   for the question but Immediately after Masry controversy, two committee
>   members resigned and one was removed for inactivity without any explanation
>   given, is that an acknowledgement that the committee was malfunctioning? Why
>   wasnt there some kind of public explaination.

The members resigned or were removed at my proposal, one of several
changes to ensure the problem you mentioned did not occur again. There
are no language subcommittee announcements, but this and other
decisions can be understood by reading the public archives:
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_subcommittee/Archives/2008-11#Remove_inactive_members>.

-- 
Yours cordially,
Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild)