<div dir="ltr">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><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span class="">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:</span><br><span class=""></span><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><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></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'll take that as a [Yes!]<br><br></div><div>Certainly if nobody but Walter and I are willing to maintain self-consistency at <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions</a> and <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Minutes">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Minutes</a> and <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Finance">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Finance</a> 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.<br><br>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 <a href="http://loomio.org">http://loomio.org</a> -- if for example Servant Leadership is our goal?<br><br></div><div>In the end of course it's all a question of putting our money where our mouth is :><br><br>(I can and will bring in experts in Participatory Budgeting later if that turns out to be appropriate.)<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid 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 clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ <a href="http://unleashkids.org" target="_blank">http://unleashkids.org</a> !</div></div>
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