On 17.01.2015 22:38, Nicolás Reynolds wrote: > i say this because your email feels to me as a "take me to your leader" > position which we never contemplated having in the first place :)
To have a functional democracy it is important the majority can decide and members who don't agree can have the freedom to vote "no" and not be persuaded (to a point they are being harassed), with the pressure of the whole community on them only because they have a different opinion and the community can't go in a direction without them agreeing (or only by them leaving the community or the community having them excluded as members). I have proposed you the structure that almost every informal group and association have. The General Assembly decides, the Council executes. I am not going into that again. I asked for a leader/representative/however-you-want-to-call-it not because I want some leader to decide instead of the community. If you look to my previous e-mails you will see my view is against that. I only asked for a leadership structure because it's needed for any collaboration. You can't have the responsibility of executing things on the community as a whole, because no community member will feel like it's her/his responsibility or has the authority to act. If a member takes a responsibility and it is granted by the community, that's a different story. There is an agreement there. Anyway, whatever organization you will chose for the institutional support for donations and spending, *all* of them will ask you for the structure of your project, the way decisions are taken and the representative(s) to whom can talk. If you need everyone to vote on every topic (no matter how insignificant, like a section on a page) and everyone to vote "yes" for the community to go in a direction and everyone to have the responsibility of taking action to make something happen, that's not going to get Parabola closer to having full-time committed developers to deliver best quality possible bleeding edge fully free operating system to as many humans in the world. -- Tiberiu-Constantin Turbureanu Președinte, Fundația Ceata +40-761-810-100 Susții libertatea artelor și tehnologiilor? Înscrie-te ca membru: http://ceata.org/%C3%AEnscrieri _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
