small "in" crowd to make decisions for this project, such as partnerships,
without feedback from the group as a whole. Was there an open call for
executive committee membership applications? Was there a vote
from the community about who should be on the executive committee?
Larry, you posted the following last month in reference to someone
to handle information for CZ.
> No offence to anyone, I hope, but I am not particularly
> interested in traditional marketing people for this job.
> I am more interested in highly-motivated philosophers
> and other thinkers, frankly--i.e., someone who really
> *groks* (and likes) what's happening and can report on
> it faithfully, and who is also gets the culture of
> openness that this sort of project requires. People
> who think that "company information" should be very
> carefully managed should not apply.
In full here: https://lists.purdue.edu/pipermail/citizendium-l/2006-October/000582.html
I welcomed this as a change from the back office politics that plague
so many endeavors. But it seems you have started carefully managing
this so called "company information" yourself.
Quentin
On 11/8/06, Larry Sanger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
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> 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
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