[wsfii-discuss] WSFII.org website in pity full state!

Wed Jun 13 17:44:54 UTC 2007

All,

Not to be a thorn, but I would encourage us not to lose site of the
original ideals of WSFII, that is an open, collaborative and
self-organizing endeavour, modelled around open source. In that light, I
would suggest that we not appoint someone to be in charge, but that we
encourage some individuals to focus their contributions on particular
aspects of this effort. If anything we should certainly focus on making
sure that we really encourage some local on the ground people to do
participate more. Leaders in open source pull things together and
encourage participation of others.

So, to answer Tomas' questions:

So who take the lead?  No one, this is a self-organizing effort
When do we organize?  again, self-organize
When the first meeting to assess situation, offers and plan?  there
should be an effort to encourage contributions and a wide call for input
and distributed decision making.

Anyone who knows me will know that this self-organizing arrangement is
not one that came naturally for this ex-soldier, though, I believe in
open source and I believe that if we buy-in to the process of
self-organization and that we work to optimize collaboration that this
will be something fruitful. Not only will we pull off a meeting, but we
will pull off another self-organizing event.

Cheers!

Ian

Fred Pook wrote:
> Hiya,
> I am happy this thread is picking up and we are chatting..
> IMHO I would put Ashish in charge of this effort of making the WSFII
> online presence a solid one.
> Please reply if there are objections to this
>
> Thanks Fred
>
>
> On 6/5/07, Thomas Maketa <tmaketa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So who take the lead ?
>> When do we organize?
>> When the first meeting to assess situation, offers and plan?
>>
>>
>> On 6/5/07, Rob Dyke < rob at comwifinet.com> wrote:
>> > Ashish, All,
>> >
>> > Here is my offer of contributing time and effort for the critical
>> > infrastructure side of things. I've much kit and much caboodle, *some*
>> > time... All donated towards WSFII.
>> >
>> > Looks like there are a couple of things immediately arising from this
>> > thread....
>> > * Web presence overhaul - tool and template
>> > * Import of OKFN hosted info
>> > * Support for translations
>> >
>> > I'm lurking with Saul in IRC.... let's continue this thread and
>> chatter
>> >
>> > Rob
>> >
>> > Saul Albert wrote:
>> > > On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 10:39:15AM +0530, Assoc of Public ICT Tools
>> Access Prov wrote:
>> > >
>> > >>    Henceforth can we think of building a team of say 3 people
>> for the
>> > >>    critical infrastructure ?  like the web site  & events.
>> > >>
>> > >
>> > > I'm afraid I can't help out with infrastructure... but as I said,
>> I'd
>> > > be *really* happy to contribute reports and updates from London...
>> > >
>> > > I'd like to remind you all about the wsfii irc channel which has
>> been
>> > > dead for a while - but could help if people are feeling isolated
>> in the
>> > > way they're working ;)
>> > >
>> > > irc://irc.oftc.net#wsfii
>> > >
>> > > See you there maybe?
>> > >
>> > > I'll be idling there this morning, but I read scrollback :)
>> > >
>> > > X
>> > >
>> > > Saul.
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>> >
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