Dear All, Let me clarify my proposal again,
*Short-Term-Goals*: Let community decide collectively what is the goal as a community which we are trying to achieve for a year. *Why?* By adopting this process we create a great scope to involve interested people from community, who otherwise remained dormant or just a spectator, to give suggestion on what they feel as necessary and what can we as a community to be done for a year. *Isnt it involving individual contributors?* *Co-ordination Committee:* A team of volunteers, who come forward to implement the collectively decided short-term-goal. With following basic qualities, 1) Co-ordination Committee should not have hierarchy. 2) Co-ordination Committee should have physical volunteers. 3) Co-ordination Committee members should be accountable. 4) Co-ordination Committee should be changed periodically, say once a year. *Why?* 1) No hierarchy: is because of the practice of community model. 2) Necessary of physical volunteers: is because we need people on the ground to organize anything to reach public. 3) Need for accountability: it is to make sure, there are no one sitting inside committee and just give suggestion. 4) Periodical Change: it is to make sure, we give opportunity for new people, through which they learn organizing events. *More:* 1) Already guiding team( Raman, Bharathi, Shakthi, Baskar, Thyagarajan, and others) are doing great in community. Can they do it eternally? 2) I hope there is already an external co-ordination happening to guide co-ordinator outside malinglist, why not formalize it? 3) having co-ordinator never stopped any individual from contributing, how come having a team of co-ordinators will affect individual contributions? *Core point:* Defining short-term-goals will make a mailinglist a action oriented community. Individual co-ordinator as a model has short comings, which we have experienced, let us try a team of co-ordinators without hindering the community principles. If there people feel discomfort in my proposal, please do question it. -- Alagunambi Welkin _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
