[Mageia-discuss] Mageia Forums

Tue Sep 21 18:41:23 CEST 2010

Le 2010-09-21 12:09, Tux99 a écrit :
+> On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, vfmBOFH wrote:
+>>
+>> Similar to the (failed) mandriva assembly, huh?
+>>
+>> I think it can be a good scheme. And comes with some "extras" like localized
+>> communities can "elect" their representative on the future associaton, and
+>> turns the "central hub" in a open discuss for them. If this scheme sucess,
+>> transparency and openess of the representative's discursons are guaranteed.
+>
+>
+> Since vfmBOFH mentions the failed mandriva assembly, I'd like to suggest
+> to please keep the organisational structure as flat as possible.
+>
+> On the internet where everyone has equal possibilities to be informed
+> and partecipate we don't need multi-level hierarchical structures with
+> so called local community representatives that have special rights or
+> influence.
+>
+> As we just saw during the first days of Mageia, the opinion of some
+> local community representatives don't necessarily match at all with the
+> opinions of the members of their community.
+>
+> So personally I don't see any point in local community representatives
+> as decision makers. If anything they should make sure that their
+> communities are informaed by arranging translations of relevant
+> information and manage their local forums, events etc.
+>
+> Any voting on global Mageia issues should be open to everyone, there
+> should be no delegations or representations as that's not necessary on
+> the internet.
+
+Agreed, however, that is not what we were talking about. We were talking 
+about information flow of information from the outer-localized groups 
+being communicated back to the main site.
+
+Having a reverse flow, in my opinion, would be a job tackled on by the 
+localized groups themselves. That is to mean, if the localized group 
+wanted to be informed of the goings-on at the main Mageia.org site, they 
+would make arrangements themselves to translate these to their localized 
+members.
+
+The main issue here, as with all large organizations, is to make sure 
+that the information from the outer-limbs of Mageia makes it back to the 
+cental hub point from where the decisions are made. Before making 
+decisions on issues, the Mageia.org hub should have all of the pertinent 
+feedback from all users (localized or not). The flow should assure this.
+
+Marc
+
+