On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Dave Crossland <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11 April 2016 at 14:32, Adam Holt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> You are thorough enough to consider the fiduciary/stewardship secretary >> role outlined below, and/or coaching/mentoring someone younger to assist >> you -- would you consider giving back in this way? >> > > Sort of: I don't want to take on any responsibility, but you can trust me > to make unsolicited recommendations to everyone ;) > I'll take that as a [Yes!] Certainly if nobody but Walter and I are willing to maintain self-consistency at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions and http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Minutes and http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Finance etc, we will need to consider a paid Financial Manager per Caryl's recommendation so we move beyond Magical Transparency to Material Transparency, that you and others keep asking for. Til we grow up into a healthy ecosystem where Volunteers & Paid Professionals work alongside with complete respect, per Bastien's reminder. On that note I have very close friends in direct contact with the worldwide experts in Participatory Budgeting if we need that facilitation. Note this does Not reduce costs nor accelerate decision-making -- but it increases the Democratic Input of Everyone, similar to http://loomio.org -- if for example Servant Leadership is our goal? In the end of course it's all a question of putting our money where our mouth is :> (I can and will bring in experts in Participatory Budgeting later if that turns out to be appropriate.) > >> (SFConservancy.org has not yet replied to us explaining how a/our >> nonprofit's bylaws should be published, but certainly >> https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Governance and >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions will need to hang >> together to build institutional memory without an excess of contradictions, >> and we could certainly use your outsider comparative perspective here if >> so!) >> > > mediawiki has a 'lock' feature to allow certain pages to only be edited by > certain users. We should use it for such 'serious' pages. > > Generally I think all mediawiki instances should be retired and replaced > with a static site generator backed by a distributed version control "pull > request" model of collaboration. > > http://designwithfontforge.com has semi-prominent "edit this page" (that > could be even more prominent) and Github itself and 3rd party web editors > like http://prose.io provide the "wiki" experience of editing pages > directly, but with the PR permissions model that - IMHO - cultivates more > quality. > > -- > Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ http://unleashkids.org ! >
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