[WikiEN-l] Just what *is* Jimbo's role anyway?

[Steve Bennett]

On 3/22/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> As I said, I think most of the problems are emergent behaviour of a
> large volunteer organisation.
>
> Are there relevant antecedents to what we're doing here? The OED ran
> (and runs) on volunteer contributions, but doesn't have an emergent
> bureaucracy of volunteers.

Hmm. Most volunteer organisations start with structures dictating
officers, power structures, decision making etc. We haven't needed
that, but we're starting to need to formalise our decision making a
bit.

Steve