Re: [Fsfe-uk] Re: AFFS workings

[Andrew Savory]

Hi,

On 29 Jun 2005, at 17:28, Adam Bower wrote:

> Because most of the stuff we do is terribly boring, there has been a
> private committee list since AFFS was started

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> The situation is that if all the things that the committee did was
> public then I could imagine that every time we made a decision we would
> get flamed by some of our members.

Boring or no, flames or no, it's rather ironic that an association 
designed to promote freedom and openness is unable to achieve those 
same things itself.

If openness works so well in many many free software projects, why do 
you assume it would not work for AFFS?

I think it was in 2003 that I first publicly grumbled about the 
affs-cttee-cabal. Perhaps the recent discussions will prove cathartic 
and allow AFFS to get on and do stuff.

I don't think fiddling with mailing lists or rewriting constitutions 
will do the trick. I think what's needed is some serious 
community-building and inclusionary practices to get people 
participating.

The newsletters are a good move. How about getting them on the website 
right away, and into the RSS feed?

Let's get the decision-making out in the open, on the public list. The 
cttee-cabal list should be the quiet one, not fsfe-uk.


Andrew.

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