I don't think anyone (on slobs) is on the fence about transparency. I think that people don't always take the time to think about what list what message should be sent to. And often times a discussion that starts in one place evolves into a conversation that belongs in a another place. Having someone to look over shoulders to remind people to move the conversation to the appropriate list would be a service. Woodhouse is quite good at this. But I suppose that rather than having one person tasked with this, we should all get into the habit of reminding each other...
-walter On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Michael Stone <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 08:14:22PM -0500, Walter Bender wrote: >> >> Here is my short-term suggestion: >> >> Why don't we appoint you as a monitor of the slobs list. > > No, thanks -- I don't feel that I can be responsible for SL's organizational > conscience. Instead, I believe that this is something that we each must be > responsible to ourselves and to one another for maintaining. >> >> Any message that you think should be public, send to iaep (blipping out >> names >> if necessary). > > I wouldn't want such a monitor to publish documents that the audience > couldn't > agree among themselves to publish -- that would be neither transparent nor > consensus-based. On the other hand, if the audience can agree to publish the > materials, then why not just send the messages to iaep@ in the first place? > >> That'll prevent us form inadvertently keep secrets from the community. > > More likely, it will lead people who are on the fence about transparency and > consensus-based decision-making to communicate by means of a different > side-channel than sl...@. > Perhaps a better solution would be to find ways for people who are on the > fence > about transparency to adjust to its requirements while still achieving their > true ends? > > Regards, > > Michael > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
