David Gerard wrote: > The arbcom "clerking" role evolved from the tedious paperwork of > arbitration getting annoying. Best not put a bureaucracy in place > until it's absolutely needed. We have enough of a tendency to > instruction creep without planning it in advance ... >
Thomas Dalton wote: > > I don't think we are at the beginning of that discussion. The WMF > board's resolution instructing Sue to sort out the creation of the > FDC (which followed on from lengthy discussions on meta, and had a > great deal of consensus) is pretty clear about what the FDC will be > doing. There are plenty of details to be finalised, but the basic idea > of what the FDC is there to do is already decided. The most significant block of work that was done ad-hoc last year which would presumably be done by the FDC this year, was requesting and reviewing annual plan and budget deatils from chapters that needed infrastructure grants. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Plans_2011-2012 That was reportedly a difficult process, in which some parties felt paperwork was tedious and annoying or underspecified and inconsistent. It would be good to preempt that this year. SJ _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
