hi,
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 5:12 PM, Ben Creasy <ben(a)bencreasy.com> wrote:
Last month, "Geoff and Stephen prepared a draft
set of basic best-practice
recommendations [on governance]". These weren't released publicly as far
as I
am aware. "Maria and Dariusz were tasked with preparing a proposal for a
lightweight structure to increase transparency" but as far as I am aware
we've
received no color on what this proposal might end up looking like. Someone
on
this list asked Dariuszand he declined to offer details; if I recall
correctly
he said the boardshoulddo what it can internally first. I disagree with
this:
if you do a bunch of work without consulting your stakeholders, there's a
good
chance you'llhave to scrap all that work. In the software world we call
early
feedback from the stakeholders "Agile", and it is widely viewed as a
superior
process to long efforts without feedback.
I generally agree with the principle of consulting first, it is just that I
believe that in our efforts to increase transparency we do not necessarily
have to work on all-encompassing and mutually exclusive initiatives, but
rather add modules and alements to the system. The reason why I suggested
slight delay is also that our ideas will be soon published (we're currently
voting the minutes from May meeting). I definitely do not perceive our
initiative as the end of discussion about transparency, but rather a
beginning.
I've personally also had a feeling of urgency that we need to start working
on increasing transparency (even if through an imperfect way) rather than
await community consultations. I just believe that the community
conversation is unlikely to scrap all of that work, but rather improve it.
In principle, I would hope that the Board should accept a policy in which
the content of our discussion is public, unless needed otherwise. As a
person coming from a different cultural background I care much more about
the actual practices of communicating within our community, than the
procedures and policies, although I am well aware that the latter have some
influence on the former.