Let me try to put your mind at ease. There are many issues concerning foundation support, partnerships, and strategy that I cannot handle all by myself--there are just too many of them--and which for obvious reasons cannot be handled out in the open. A major corporation or foundation will not post to a public mailing list and ask for a chat.
The same people who will be discussing those issues also need to take the initiative to make those initially-confidential matters happen. So, the role of the executive committee is not primarily to discuss policy, which is left to other forums, but to execute. The people I've collected together to discuss indisputably confidential matters also seem to me to be excellent at taking initiative. So I've gotten them together in a place where they can talk among themselves candidly about what needs to be done. They'll actually *do* everything they do out in the open. In other words, high-level organization and negotiation will occur in the Executive Committee, but actual work, including all policy formulation, will always be out in the open, on the wiki, in the forums, on the lists, wherever. --Larry -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Me Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 12:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Citizendium-l] Update > Both of these groups are by invitation only. The Executive Committee, since> it deals with sensitive issues of many sorts, will be closed-archive. The> editor group will be open archive:This is of concern to me, I have been following this project on the lists and forums from it's beginning and one of the battle cries has been "Maximum Transparency!"Now you have a special anointed group holding closed door discussions.Am I the only one seeing the conflict between stated mission and implementation? Quentin _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
