Re: a starting point for a community organization charter on the wiki
Jeremy McNaughton wrote: > With a little help this could eventually become our charter for a > sub-group of Linux International. I wonder if LI may have something like a template for such sub-group charters. > The stuff I've written there are all just ideas that can be completely > changed. We have the opportunity to create a brand new organization, > so don't be afraid to raise questions, concerns, or ideas. Heh, I have one :-) Why should I become a member ? I think the answer may make it clearer what has to go into the charter. Thanks, - Werner ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: a starting point for a community organization charter on the wiki
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Jeremy McNaughton wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I've started a (very rough) draft charter for the community > organization on the wiki here: > > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Charter > > With a little help this could eventually become our charter for a > sub-group of Linux International. Great Jeremy, I respect your work to help the community to go to a direction and not just mess around! I think that the idea of a foundation is great and skilled people (like you) are needed to set it up. I hope that people will get involved in the discussion and people with experience about organizations and foundations would step up. Don't be ashamed, we need you! and Jeremy, I don't think you're stepping on anyone's feet as long as things are open and you welcome people to participate. If someone feels ignored, they should again tell you that. I wouldn't oppose if you had some leader position - the leader doesn't have to know everything about everything as long as he has people to work with, who know at least the most of something :) r -- | risto h. kurppa | risto at kurppa dot fi | http://risto.kurppa.fi ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
a starting point for a community organization charter on the wiki
Hi Everyone, I've started a (very rough) draft charter for the community organization on the wiki here: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Charter With a little help this could eventually become our charter for a sub-group of Linux International. The stuff I've written there are all just ideas that can be completely changed. We have the opportunity to create a brand new organization, so don't be afraid to raise questions, concerns, or ideas. It's important that we create an organization that works. It needs to work to further our collective goals, and it needs to work for everyone involved. That includes you! There are scores of successful, community based FLOSS organizations out there, and some not so successful ones that we can hopefully learn lessons from. If you admire a particular project for the way it runs things, please tell the rest of what we can learn from them. Potential pitfalls that can be avoided, ingenious ways of financing, anecdotes about do's and don'ts for encouraging community involvement... all of this and more can help us work towards building a great organization. As a side note, I've only just come out of lurking. Since I haven't been actively involved up this point, I just want to say that I don't want to step on anyone's toes. If anyone feels I have crossed a line somewhere, please let me know. I assure everyone that I don't want to be in charge, in fact I'd prefer members with more experience take on leadership roles. Organizational development is just a sort of a passion for me. Not that anyone has given me reason to think this. All I'm saying is, I know I'm new here and don't expect any sort of overnight credibility. Anyways, here's to some engaging discussions that will lead to a prosperous future for open telephony! Jeremy ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
