[CHAOSS] How decisions are made (was: Opening discussion on using Discourse Forum for CHAOSS)
dmg
dmg at uvic.ca
Fri Nov 23 23:15:20 UTC 2018
hi Georg,
Georg Link <glink at unomaha.edu> writes:
> Hi everyone,
>
> During today's call, we discussed more on the decision making
> process
> within our CHAOSS community. On the call were: Dawn Foster,
> Jesus
> Gonzales-Barahona, Matt Snell, Kevin Lumbard, Ben Lloyd-Pearson,
> Ildiko
> Vancsa, and Georg Link
>
> One issue is that only a subset of us can join our weekly or
> monthly calls.
> Decisions based only on those calls will always exclude
> community members.
> However, we perceive the calls to be a valuable communication
> channel for
> discussion and arriving at a better shared understanding.
>
> To resolve this tension, we propose to consider decisions within
> CHAOSS to
> be made based on consensus and that we declare our calls to not
> be
> sufficient for arriving at consensus but a place for agreeing on
> a proposal
> that is then moved to the mailing list for consensus.
>
1. can you give us a couple of examples where the current decision
making process has been insufficient
and why an improve process would help?
2. Are these problems a common occurrence?
--dmg
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