[CivicAccess-discuss] end of launch day

[Jason Birch]

Hi all,

As it sits right now, my perception is that the wiki gives some
participants in civicaccess (the founders) higher status than others.  I
guess it's up to the folks who started this great idea to decide if
that's desirable or not.  I think that my perception of this was
coloured by the placement of the link to the Founders page being on the
main page, rather being on a secondary page that talks about the group's
history or structure.

OSGeo (https://www.osgeo.org/) struggled with this.   There was a need
to have a defined set of members that would be allowed to vote for the
board, but a strong desire to foster an inclusive spirit.  Status in the
community needed to be developed on the basis of merit (effort exerted
on the community's behalf) rather than when the person joined the
foundation.

What they ended up with was a structure with an elected board (which was
a requirement of the non-profit foundation) and with everyone else being
members.  Some members have the sole additional responsibility of
electing the board, but with no additional status or privileges.

Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: civicaccess-discuss-bounces at civicaccess.ca
[mailto:civicaccess-discuss-bounces at civicaccess.ca] On Behalf Of Michael
Lenczner
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 08:30
To: civicaccess discuss
Subject: Re: [CivicAccess-discuss] end of launch day

http://civicaccess.ca/wiki/Participants

is this what you mean?



On 4/28/06, Hugh McGuire <h.mcguire at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> now that the project doors are open, should civicaccess.ca "Founders"
> page become a "Members/Participants" page?
>
> Hugh.
>

_______________________________________________
CivicAccess-discuss mailing list
CivicAccess-discuss at civicaccess.ca
http://civicaccess.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss_civicaccess.c
a