Hi members,
am also in support of the board posting minutes on the WMKE site ,the
issue of restricting access of whatever was discussed & voted is
kinda, for lack of a better word, retrogressive .The so called passive
members ought to be encouraged to participate in future projects not
locked out of the on goings ,To the board >>> i think you stand to
gain my confidence as a "voting member" more if you embrace
transparency & accountability ,
my thoughts!
Branton
On 4/19/12, Oliver Stegen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Manuel for your suggestions!
> Dear board members,
> I strongly support the idea to post the minutes to our WMKE website. If you
> need a private space for board members only, by all means have that set up
> on WMKE as well. As Manuel wrote, you don't want to give other orgs access
> to WMKE insider information (esp. not as we have our own website anyway!).
> Fwiw, na kazi njema!
> Oliver (aka BT)
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Manuel Schneider [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: 19 April 2012 09:26
>> To: The discussion list for the upcoming Wikimedia Kenya chapter.
>> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Board minutes
>>
>> Hi Ann, dear board,
>>
>> I wonder why you don't publish that information on the Wikimedia Kenya
>> wiki?
>> That's your website, it's a wiki (hence easy to update / publish) and
>> it's the central place where everybody looks at.
>>
>> If you need a private place - both WMAT and WMCH have and need that -
>> you can have a seperate board wiki there which we can interconnect with
>> the public wiki. That way you only need one useraccount for both and
>> only sign in once, you can also use the uploads from the public wiki in
>> the private wiki as well. The access is seperated by usergroups which
>> you can manage on your own.
>>
>> I definitely discourage to post official information on Google Docs for
>> various reasons.
>> It is a great tool to work short term on a specific content but once it
>> is ready it should be copied to an official place.
>>
>> * not everyone has a Google account and forcing people to get one is
>> contrary to transparency
>> * it is very hard to find the content. you need to post links somewhere
>> at a central site anyway, so you can directly post the content there and
>> avoid the other problems.
>> * Google Docs is free, however you never know for how long nor do you
>> have a guarantee the contents you posted there will be there tomorrow.
>> * I would not want to provide Google (or any other business) private
>> information about my organisation, just as a principle.
>>
>> Just build a structure for your content on your wiki - at WMAT for
>> instance we have made an "Archive" page which is used as a list (divided
>> by years) of subpage links where we have all information for our members
>> - reports, board resolutions, contracts:
>> * http://mitglieder.wikimedia.at/Archiv
>>
>> Of course there are many other good ways to deal with that, I just
>> wanted to give you an idea.
>>
>> If you need a board wiki please contact me.
>>
>>
>> /Manuel
>>
>> Am 18.04.2012 22:06, schrieb Ann Njeri:
>> > The board was of the opinion that we should be posting the board minutes
>> > as well as other important discussions on a google doc which will be
>> > created so as to protect those who have access to the information. This
>> > is also because there are many who have subscribed to the mailing list
>> > that are passive members. Alternatively, I can use the Meta to post the
>> > board minutes as Abbas had suggested. Please comment on this so that we
>> > can know the way forward.
>> --
>> Regards
>> Manuel Schneider
>>
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