[Brug-admin] [Fwd: Re: Post-FOSDEM momentum]

[Peter Vanbroekhoven]

Tom Klaasen wrote:
> My experience with volunteer-efforts is that a 'benevolent dictator' is
> often needed, exactly to circumvent the committee-feeling.

That phrase has been spooking through my head for a while now. I have
been thinking the same thing.

I am willing to do most or all of the 'field work', but I have to know
what I'm working for.

We should rethink the admin structure a bit. I would keep the admin list
because I want the admin group to be an open thing. But we can have a
core group of a few people, 3 or 5 (preferably an odd number). This core
group wouldn't have a list and mail each other directly.

Basically, for simple things like "general BRUG meeting last week of
March?", the core group decides. They get 24 hours to vote (+1 or -1)
and someone (our benevolent dictator if you will) can break ties if needed.

For more elaborate proposals, such as the structure of the website, I
suggest the proposal is submitted to the general admin list who get 48
hours to comment, add/remove ideas, etc. If it turns out the proposal
was way off, we lather rinse repeat. The discussion is then summarized
by the submitter of the proposal, proposal is adapted where necessary,
and the proposal is put up for vote with the core admin people per the
above procedure. (I suggest the courtesy of not voting against unless
you have voiced your concerns before.)

So more or less this is a new procedure to make decisions faster, and we
have one person who takes the necessary decisions in case the procedure
stalls. If it doesn't work, we can still revise it later on, but the way
it is now, it's hard to get things done; it feels like the Belgian
governments, and we don't want to be _that_ Belgian.

Peter