Hi everyone, One of my responsibilities as elected Chair of the WIkiEducator Community Council is to prepare for our meetings. As you know the OER Foundation subscribes to open philanthropy which means our Council meetings are conducted openly and transparently in the wiki. We do our best to implement parliamentary procedure in our meetings, but as you will appreciate we need to tweak procedure a little to prepare for the unique challenges of running an asynchronous meeting in a wiki.
To date we have conducted two WikiEducator Council meetings in the wiki -- and with each iteration we get better at what we do. You gotta love this open learn-by-doing model. We're getting parliamentary procedure (using open asynchronous wiki meetings) down to a fine art. We work openly -- so we can share this expertise with the world. What I like about the open wiki mode for these meetingsl, is that any member of the WIkiEducator community, apart from observing the meeting, can add their thoughts and discussion items to the meeting as we proceed. Only elected and nominated members of Council can vote using an open ballot, but you can participate in the meeting by adding your thoughts and views to the discussions. Wow! -- That's open philanthropy in practice! When you think about it , this is pretty amazing. WE run international meetings virtually spanning all time zones of the world. That is, from Samoa just other side of the date line through to New Zealand, just this side of the date line. Depending on DST, the Community Council members literally span 24 hours -- WIkiEducator never sleeps! I wonder if Roberts Rules of order first published in Feb 1876 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%27s_Rules_of_Order) ever envisaged the procedures being applied for meetings with the assembly distributed over all time zones on the planet! Today, I spent a little time drafting a boilerplate text for the individual pages we use for drafting, tabling and voting on motions and tweaking Robert's rules for our wiki way building on the experience of our first two meetings. See: http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Boilerplate_text_for_draft_motions I've embedded a few guidelines for each subsection, but most notably included a section for pre-meeting discussions. I've now populated two draft motion pages using the boilerplates for pre-meeting discussions: - http://wikieducator.org/Community_Council/Meetings/Third/Amendments_to_Open_Community_Governance_Policy - http://wikieducator.org/Community_Council/Meetings/Third/Guidelines_for_embedding_links_to_third_party_media So you can add you voice to pre-meeting discussions. We're making OER futures happen. Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Board of Directors, OER Foundation. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
