On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Glynn Foster <Glynn.Foster at sun.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
I agree with Glynn on this one. Facilitators seems to belong to a
command-and-control apparatus, not a that of a flowing-membership guerilla
group.
(Using the military as an example because the "Cathedral and The Bazaar"
analogy seems to ruffle feathers here.)
--
Chris Mahan
chris.mahan at gmail.com
cell 818.943.1850
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