<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>Hi Walter!<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">In the "Seeking insights into Oversight_Board/Decisions" thread you said,</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 April 2016 at 14:56, Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Dave Crossland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span>On 11 April 2016 at 14:32, Adam Holt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:holt@laptop.org" target="_blank">holt@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div>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?<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Sort of: I don't want to take on any responsibility, but you can trust me to make unsolicited recommendations to everyone ;)</div><span><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>(SFConservancy.org has not yet replied to us explaining how a/our nonprofit's bylaws should be published, but certainly <a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Governance" target="_blank">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Governance</a> and <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions</a> 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!)<br clear="all"></div></div><span></span></blockquote></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">mediawiki has a 'lock' feature to allow certain pages to only be edited by certain users. We should use it for such 'serious' pages. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">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. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="http://designwithfontforge.com" target="_blank">http://designwithfontforge.com</a> has semi-prominent "edit this page" (that could be even more prominent) and Github itself and 3rd party web editors like <a href="http://prose.io" target="_blank">http://prose.io</a> provide the "wiki" experience of editing pages directly, but with the PR permissions model that - IMHO - cultivates more quality. <br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div>Something to discuss before the Wiki Gardening weekend. We do have some community members who do a decent job of tending to the day-to-day needs of the wiki, but it has lacked an Olmstead for some time. Maybe we just pull the best of the wiki into a static site? </div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, I recommend it - because a 'static site' backed by git _is_ a kind of wiki when there is an 'edit this page' button. <br></div><div><br></div><div>What are the next steps for the Wiki Gardening Weekend location, and what else ought to be discussed in the next 5 weeks?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers<br>Dave</div></div>
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