Louis,
Le 30 mai 09 à 04:23, Louis Suarez-Potts a écrit :
Attached is the zipped irc log unedited from the meeting held today,
Friday, at 13:00 UTC. Is there a log of Thursday's meeting?
Briefly, we discussed the purpose of the RGs, the need for
accountability of any funds distributed, and the infrastructure
demands.
One of my action items was to contact Cornell Clayton to ask him to
help set up the wiki ontology so that it corresponds (modulo the
logical differences) to that of Documentation. That structure/
ontology allows for varied languages; in the case of the Regional
Groups (RGs), language is not the issue but region is, and there are
lots of regions. Roughly, it would be along the lines of .../region/
[general region name, eg, Africa]/[further specification]. The idea
being to keep things familiar and easy to find without using a
search command.
The other big issue is sketching out ideas of governance and
boundaries. I hate bureaucracy and want the RGs to have a lot of
autonomy. But autonomy doesn't mean the right to be unaccountable or
arbitrary--not that I expect any RG would be. So, besides having
some basic obligations, such as promoting OOo, the project,
community, ODF, etc., the RGs might also receive funds to enable
such (bigger, developed ones with NGOs probably would not need
funds). For these distributions of funds, accountability is needed.
But even in the absence of that, having a governance structure that
provides some modicum of accountability while ensuring a lot of
autonomy, so that things can be done without bureaucratic anxiety,
is desired.
Finally, I'd like to reinstitute periodic presentations, ideally
with video, that focus on elements of OOo usage, development,
promotion--or anything more or less germane to OOo that speakers
want to do. Guess we could even use YouTube :-), at least for
videos. But this is just a proposal and of course I'm not the first
to suggest it, just the last, so far :-)
-louis
I may have misunderstood but it should also be noted that AFAICT RG
groups wiki should also belong to the NLC category, or am I being
mistaken?
Cheers,
Charles.
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