Hello René,
Thanks for chiming in. Your question is a little long, so I was thinking to try and shorten it. Do you feel this expresses the same intention? How do we identify / encourage / recruit people who want to do the project management aspects of funded development? Do other organizations have this as a paid position? How do other community-driven projects express and decide on an overall direction for the project?
Ted On Jun 20 2021, at 3:53 am, René de Hesselle dehesselle@icloud.com wrote:
From what I understand on how we got to this point, this would be what I'd ask the SFC.
Dear SFC, we'd like to have a meeting and get your advice on:
- While we do not want to give up on the decentralized volunteer-/community-driven
nature of the project ("nobody can tell anybody what to do"), there are areas that we are struggling with because of missing leadership. If anybody is free to do as they please, who takes care of making plans for what's in the best interest of the project? Currently, that's no one - including the Inkscape board, as it was neither installed as a steering committee or authoritative body, nor conceived to be either of those. That leads us to our current situation where we are sitting on a pile of donations without any plans on how to spend that money (e.g. paying someone to do work no volunteer wants to do), and we’ve kind of grinded ourselves to a halt discussing how to approach this. We know that we need to change the way we work, but don't know how. Do we need to restructure the board and give it authority? Do we hire a project manager/ counsel/... whatever? How do other decentralized community-driven projects deal with issues that would benefit from having some centralized structure/ organization in place?
Am 20.06.2021 um 06:52 schrieb Martin Owens doctormo@geek-2.com:
Hi Ted,
I'd like to hear from Marc, if he's available, before doing anything specific. Marc, what do you think about the proposal for committee meetings?
Best Regards, Martin Owens
On Fri, 2021-06-18 at 19:40 -0500, Ted Gould wrote:
Splitting into a separate thread for readability. (please don't add things to this thread)
It seems that folks want to have a meeting with the SFC to get some advice. I'm happy to facilitate that. But, I'm unsure of what advice we're looking for and what to say we want from the meeting (help me write the email).
Dear SFC, We'd like to have a meeting and get your advice on: <replace this text in reply> 😄
I'm traveling next week, but I should have access to email. So, let's say on Wednesday (June 23rd) I will combine all the replies and request a meeting with the SFC based on those.
Ted
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