On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Michelle Olson <michelle.olson at sun.com> wrote: > The purpose of the Facilitation project is to bring together the 15-20 > active OpenSolaris Community Group Facilitators to learn from one another > about the Facilitator role and to help increase voter > turnout by communicating election details via the project team. > > Community Group Sponsor: OGB > > Participants: Michelle Olson is point-of-contact, potential participants > include the following, but only two of them > have yet reviewed this proposal: > > David Chieu, Vincent R Wang, William Kucharski, Ceri Davies, Darren Moffat, > Nicolas Solter, Liane Praza, Sunay Tripathi, Dan Price, Damian Wojslaw, Mark > Nelson, Lisa Week, John Levon, Lynn Rohrer, Octave Orgeron, Alan > Coopersmith, > Alan McClellan and any other active CG facilitators I've missed.
Such as myself... > Shortname: facilitation > > Description: This project would attempt to implement the Facilitator role > that is described in the Constitution by creating a formal project around > it. > The immediate goal is to help current facilitators and their community > groups to better understand the OpenSolaris yearly election, voting details > and specifics of grant updates by engaging with other experienced > OpenSolaris facilitators. > A future goal would be to expand the group to include representatives from > all community groups so that we fully satisfy the constitutional > requirement. That would be under the current constitution, which does have facilitators. The new draft version didn't, although I thought that each collective ought to have a named point of contact (which is really what the facilitator role is). And also the new constitution didn't have the hierarchy of a (small) set of CGs above a (large) set of projects, but is much flatter. In that real world, every CG, project, and user group would be the same and all would have a facilitator - making quite a large population. So what I would like to see is a clearer understanding of what the facilitators are really for, in a way that transcends the organisational minutiae embedded in the current constitution and isn't so explicitly tied to a specific structure. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
