On 11/07/2008, at 3:41 PM, Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> Bonnie Corwin wrote:
>> I thought there was talk of exactly this - a list for
>> facilitators. And
>> for some reason I had been assuming that was the plan - but I might
>> be
>> mis-remembering the various discussions.
>
> Yes there was talk about this (from me and others) but there was no
> consensus. I think the OGB should just maintain a list of Facilitators
> and subscribe them to ogb-discuss and opensolaris-announce.
> Communicating with the OGB is a key role for Facilitators, so they
> really need to be on ogb-discuss at the very least. If we open a new
> list for Facilitators that will be one more list for people to join.
> We
> could use the Members list for the time being since that list is not
> used and it probably has all the Facilitators on it.
Okay, I have to confess that I *really* hate the idea of Facilitators.
Creating a formal role around this is, I believe, forcing people to do
something that isn't a natural fit for how most things work. The
people interested in doing things will pick it up and communicate
appropriately with whatever body has a natural fit - it's an assumed
role, rather than a formal role. Over time, this natural group of
people changes ("You do what you can, when you can"), and a more
formal role seems like an administrative burden, along with single
point of failure.
Glynn
