[wplug-plan] Organizational considerations

[Jonathan Billings]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Zach Paine wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 20:57:56 David Tessitor wrote:
> >    * The Member Organizational Meetings (regularly scheduled
> >      for 2 pm after the GUM's) were started explicitly to deal
> >      with organizational matters.
> 
> I don't like these.  There is a structure in place for discussing wplug
> administration and organization.  If you wanted to discuss organization,
> you should have organized a plan meeting.  You've generated a good bit of
> resentment because of the psuedo-official meetings.

I concur.  While I appreciate your effort, I think that you should
cooperate with the planning group to decide topics, and manage the
decisions from such meetings.  Get someone to record notes and minutes,
which can be submitted, and anyone can work with them.  Otherwise, you
really aren't doing anything WPLUG related.

> >    * Rick McKinney brings up a valid point about the list
> >      reply protocol.  I think this demonstrates a good reason
> >      for setting down some simple guidelines on the webpage.
> >      I know some people will probably complain that it would
> >      make them feel as though they are in back school --
> >      behavior rules laid out and such -- but mature adults
> >      should also see the wisdom having a commonly accepted
> >      standard of conduct so everybody is working from the same
> >      page.
> 
> I feel we need a more organized method for making decisions and I think
> that any guidelines would simply be common sense ones. Not that I'm against
> these, but I don't think we need to have a formal list system.

I think discussion is good on the list, but I would also like a voting
mechanism, with authentication, a submission queue, results posted to
wplug-plan, etc.  

> As for web-based lists.. I believe they are FAR too cumbersome for
> effective communication.  Email is widely available and more efficient.

Web-based lists might be good for wplug-announce.  web-groups are
insecure, hard to manage, spam-bait, and frankly, it doesn't push the data
to the user.  I don't like it.