hi, On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 5:12 PM, Ben Creasy <b...@bencreasy.com> wrote:
> Last month, "Geoff and Stephen prepared a draft set of basic best-practice > recommendations [on governance]". These weren't released publicly as far > as I > am aware. "Maria and Dariusz were tasked with preparing a proposal for a > lightweight structure to increase transparency" but as far as I am aware > we've > received no color on what this proposal might end up looking like. Someone > on > this list asked Dariuszand he declined to offer details; if I recall > correctly > he said the boardshoulddo what it can internally first. I disagree with > this: > if you do a bunch of work without consulting your stakeholders, there's a > good > chance you'llhave to scrap all that work. In the software world we call > early > feedback from the stakeholders "Agile", and it is widely viewed as a > superior > process to long efforts without feedback. > I generally agree with the principle of consulting first, it is just that I believe that in our efforts to increase transparency we do not necessarily have to work on all-encompassing and mutually exclusive initiatives, but rather add modules and alements to the system. The reason why I suggested slight delay is also that our ideas will be soon published (we're currently voting the minutes from May meeting). I definitely do not perceive our initiative as the end of discussion about transparency, but rather a beginning. I've personally also had a feeling of urgency that we need to start working on increasing transparency (even if through an imperfect way) rather than await community consultations. I just believe that the community conversation is unlikely to scrap all of that work, but rather improve it. In principle, I would hope that the Board should accept a policy in which the content of our discussion is public, unless needed otherwise. As a person coming from a different cultural background I care much more about the actual practices of communicating within our community, than the procedures and policies, although I am well aware that the latter have some influence on the former. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
