On 10 June 2015 at 10:42, Gordon Joly <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/06/15 11:20, Simon Knight wrote: > > > >I'm not sure it's right to say the panel takes over what was formerly a > >staff decision making process. The intention of the panel (which > reports to the board) > >is to advise on how WMUK can best engage volunteers. > > Still an advisory group, rather than a decision making body? > > I'd have thought that question were better answered after the proposed change in the Articles, which currently hamper devolving actual decisions to non-Board people. My feeling anyway, and I was saying this on Monday at the (possibly penultimate) Tech committee meeting, is that process issues aren't necessarily the decisive ones in making the system work.
Certainly in wiki terms, process sometimes is not the key point in determining whether collaboration works. There are "ground rules" and "shared noms" and a general agreement that people want to spend their time getting stuff done rather than observe others grandstanding. Certainly, also, offwiki can be stony ground for wiki ways. See my opening comment about the Articles. Charles
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