On 5/1/2012 12:37 PM, Risker wrote:
On 1 May 2012 15:00, Sue Gardner<[email protected]> wrote:
Hey folks,
I had a 90-second conversation the other day with SJ about whether it
would make sense for us to use volunteer "clerks" as support for the
FDC (Funds Dissemination Committee), and I'm wondering if anyone can
point me towards any documentation of the role -- a description of how
it's typically used, either inside Wikimedia or outside. I have the
gist, but am curious to learn more, if anyone's got links they could
point me towards.
I'd suggest that before giving any thought to whether or not the FDC
process would benefit from clerking, it would be better to determine what
that process actually is, and whether or not the members of the FDC think
that clerking would be useful. In other words, this decision is at least a
few months down the pike.
I don't know, is it actually that hard to make a determination that
creating this kind of support role is useful? We may not have worked out
all the details of the process, but it seems clear that the process will
have a certain "weight" appropriate to the importance people are placing
on this issue. That could make it quite natural to need clerks, even if
we don't know yet exactly what the clerks will do. If people like SJ and
Sue are anticipating a possible need, that's a decent indicator that we
might as well have the conversation and not simply postpone it.
If some kind of clerk position is created, I expect it can evolve fairly
naturally as the funds dissemination process itself gets more developed.
It's not that different from arbitration clerks, who have picked up
various tasks over time as it was deemed practical and helpful for them
to do so.
--Michael Snow
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