On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Christian Heller wrote:

> > Another option is Linuxmednews...Ignacio has kindly hosted OSHCA for

Christian,

Since Ignacio has not volunteered, I don't think it is fair to single him
out. If the man wishes to volunteer, let him tell us directly.

...
> I vote for this option and would like to see Andrew's list charter applied.

The applicability of my proposed List Charter remains unknown. It remains
to be seen whether:
  1) enough people feel that we need something like that
  2) enough people will migrate to a mailing list based on that
  3) five willing and able bodies will volunteer to fill the positions

As I said, we still have [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the meantime. When enough of
us feel sufficiently "moved" to take concrete action, then we shall have a
new list.

> (Thanks to Denny for his offer, but I think it is not a good idea to
> again leave administration of the new list to a commercial company.)

In my humble opinion, we need not discriminate against commercial entities
as long as we have a strong Charter and enforceable contracts with the
volunteers. Without such agreements in place, I fear that even the most
up-standing members of our community are human and thus vulnerable to
corruption. This is not an issue of trust, but immunizing well-intentioned
people so that they may do good with maximal efficiency. Present company
included :-).

According to my proposed charter, the list managers will be responsible
for choosing a Host and a Domain Name Manager. After a few more days of
deliberation and discussion, maybe people will begin self-nominating for
the list manager positions. We just have to wait and see.

Best regards,

Andrew
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Andrew P. Ho, M.D.
OIO: Open Infrastructure for Outcomes
www.TxOutcome.Org



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