I'll add you to the list. It really should be a public list although for now
it isn't. We need a wiki. the Trisquel site probably has an appropriate place
to do it. If someone wants to point me to a good spot I'll post the list. In
fact this would probably be a good idea as then other new people who come
across this discussion list could add themselves
to the wiki. Then we could pull people from that list when we find tasks
that need to get done.
One thing I have to say is talk is cheap. I'm no saint. Action is much harder
and I do like to talk a lot. Unfortunately like most people I'm involved in
wayyy too much as it is. Communicating with Rubén I'm sure isn't going to
make this any easier. He gets a lot of mail and I'm sure he can frequently
skims over and then misses stuff. Partly due to putting off responding to
emails. When you want to do a proper response... things take longer.
I'll try and talk to Rubén one of these days and see if we can't carve
something out that would work. I'm sure he likes the idea of making parts of
it more community oriented. It's the problems which get created by doing so
(more work for him, assigning permissions, etc).
Quite honestly I think the best approach would be to look at Maegia as an
example and setup something similar on a smaller scale.
They have a board of directors. They have a council.
The council doesn't do much. The board of directors does most of it although
isn't terribly involved either I don't think. They just vote on stuff and
organise the overall participants.
Maybe what we could do is have a small council with three or so people (like
myself, Rubén, and someone else who has been working with Trisquel a while).
And these people wouldn't have to be really involved in the project. Just a
guiding force. Maybe someone who is following everything closely rather than
someone who is actively developing.
Then we could have the board which might be made up of three or so people.
The trick is actually finding three people who are able and willing to
dedicate the time each week to meeting. Maybe some better tools would work.
Or just a mailing list for the board and then a wiki for proposals which must
be decided on. Each board member could vote. And who elects the board could
be decided by associate members? (just a thought).
Then maybe we could separate infrastructure a bit and title someone
administrator. Setup a virtual private server. This way tasks could be more
easily delegated as opposed to having mail/web/forums/etc together. And
restoring from a screw up would be relatively easy regardless of who might
take over the post later.
I'm not sure how hard it would be right now to separate concerns. I think it
wouldn't be too terribly time consuming though for Rubén to do. I've done it
enough times to know what a pain it is although it isn't that bad time wise.
We probably just need to export the drupal database and tar a directory. Then
we could move it to a VPS, setup automated nightly off-site backups, and
occasionally do a bit for bit backup.
Give my role I say ThinkPenguin can fund it :) but maybe Rubén will think it
unnecessary. Really all of this is Rubén's call.
I think I've got plenty of ideas to summarise for Rubén once I find the time
to write him an email.
