On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:39 PM, John Smith<delta_foxt...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I'm in agreement with Tom's suggestion of a working group, however they > should have the ability to make decisions they come to stick, true > democracies fail from everyone having their own agendas.
Define "stick" i.e. no one can force people to tag in a certain way, so what are you referring to? Just the wiki or something else? This worries me a bit... > Outline the responsibilities and such of the working group, ask for people to > nominate themselves, have a limited number of positions on the working group > and they act to filter all future proposals, anything that seems reasonable > should be discussed, properly worked out. This sounds fine. Basically what seems to be going on here is that, firstly, if someone is given a "role", there is an assumption they will provide a more valuable contribution. And secondly, that this structure will provide more useful discussion than the completely unstructured solution at the moment - the emailing list. Seems reasonable. > Once there is a formal proposal it should be put out for a comment period in > which anyone can discuss their thoughts on the matter, and from this either > the proposal is refined or moves to become official. Doesn't seem to be any different to the current situation. I guess it comes down to what you mean by the ability of a working group to "make decisions stick". _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
