[IAEP] Seeking insights into Oversight_Board/Decisions

[Adam Holt]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:

> On 11 April 2016 at 14:32, Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org> wrote:
>
>> You are thorough enough to consider the fiduciary/stewardship secretary
>> role outlined below, and/or coaching/mentoring someone younger to assist
>> you -- would you consider giving back in this way?
>>
>
> Sort of: I don't want to take on any responsibility, but you can trust me
> to make unsolicited recommendations to everyone ;)
>

I'll take that as a [Yes!]

Certainly if nobody but Walter and I are willing to maintain
self-consistency at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions
and http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Minutes and
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Finance etc, we will need to consider a paid
Financial Manager per Caryl's recommendation so we move beyond Magical
Transparency to Material Transparency, that you and others keep asking for.

Til we grow up into a healthy ecosystem where Volunteers & Paid
Professionals work alongside with complete respect, per Bastien's
reminder.  On that note I have very close friends in direct contact with
the worldwide experts in Participatory Budgeting if we need that
facilitation.  Note this does Not reduce costs nor accelerate
decision-making -- but it increases the Democratic Input of Everyone,
similar to http://loomio.org -- if for example Servant Leadership is our
goal?

In the end of course it's all a question of putting our money where our
mouth is :>

(I can and will bring in experts in Participatory Budgeting later if that
turns out to be appropriate.)


>
>> (SFConservancy.org has not yet replied to us explaining how a/our
>> nonprofit's bylaws should be published, but certainly
>> https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Governance and
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions will need to hang
>> together to build institutional memory without an excess of contradictions,
>> and we could certainly use your outsider comparative perspective here if
>> so!)
>>
>
> mediawiki has a 'lock' feature to allow certain pages to only be edited by
> certain users. We should use it for such 'serious' pages.
>
> Generally I think all mediawiki instances should be retired and replaced
> with a static site generator backed by a distributed version control "pull
> request" model of collaboration.
>
> http://designwithfontforge.com has semi-prominent "edit this page" (that
> could be even more prominent) and Github itself and 3rd party web editors
> like http://prose.io provide the "wiki" experience of editing pages
> directly, but with the PR permissions model that - IMHO - cultivates more
> quality.
>
> --
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>
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