Hi all, Most of you will be aware of the recent thread on the psf-members list. I copy the latest message from a board member and will intersperse my remarks therein.
Begin forwarded message: > From: Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [PSF-Members] Why are we having people register at python.org > Date: January 4, 2015 2:08:18 PM GMT > To: "Steven D'Aprano" <st...@pearwood.info> > Cc: PSF Members <psf-memb...@python.org> > > On 4 January 2015 at 21:13, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 09:36:58PM -0600, VanL wrote: >> If the bottleneck is us, then what are we doing about it? I know the >> board members are busy, and may have other priorities, and that's okay, >> but can't they delegate? > > That's the brutally hard part of the problem: defining the ground > rules for a delegation and wrangling the subsequent process of > selecting a suitable candidate is almost certainly going to involve > even more work than talking to PE/RevSys every week regarding the > board's current priorities. > I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that my extensive PSF experience and my reasonable level of web technology knowledge would make me a suitable candidate. > However, I realised during this discussion that it doesn't actually > have to be a board member that writes such a document. I'd been taking > it for granted that that was necessary, but I now believe that > conclusion to be incorrect: someone else could write a website project > management proposal based on the RFP and community feedback, and > submit it to the board as a grant proposal. > True. This email seeks to persuade you to support a proposal to the PSF board for onward active management of the python.org web site only embedding that notion. The infrastructure appears to be perfectly adequately managed, so the tasks facing us are (I would suggest) principally * progressing the task list on behalf of the board with the external contractors * suggesting new CMS functionality to allow much easier editing of specific content areas * recruiting and organizing content editors * curating content not handled by other editors, as a backup > The parts of such a process that would specifically need board > involvement are any final yes/no decision (as it would take a board > resolution to put any proposal into formal effect), and any parts of > the proposal that involve changing the communications arrangements > with PE/RevSys (and hopefully they would be open to participating > directly in any discussions of a community proposal on the > pydotorg-www mailing list). > Should the board wish to retain direct communication with the PE/Revsys team that would be OK, but I imagine they'd be just as happy to delegate that relationship to the "webmaster". >> I would have expected that the board would have started a discussion >> here to ask for a volunteer to take over management of the project and >> report to the board from time to time. There's plenty of things to >> discuss: what the manager is expected to do, make design decisions or >> just prod the web devs and ensure they keep moving? How often do they >> report to the board? Is there a stipend for the person doing this or is >> it an unpaid volunteer job? > > If such a role description could be developed through an open, > collaborative process on the pydotorg-www mailing list, I believe that > would be a potentially great outcome. As you say, quite a bit later > than would be desirable, but still a positive way forward that could > resolve some of the current challenges around site governance. > So, where do we go from here? I'm prepared to commit effort (more than I'd be paid for, if experience is anything to go by) to see this move forward. Do I have any support? regards Steve -- Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com +1 571 484 6266 @holdenweb
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