Jerry, what is is exactly that you want? You want a steering
committee, but you don't want a poll to pick a new webmaster.
You want to be able to add a poll, but I suspect you don't want
2500 people to be able to add polls to the openacs.org web site.
You want experimentation, but you want a steering committee to
set policy and direction, which is hardly a way to achieve
experimentation. And you want a wiki, that much is clear.
I'm doing the best I can to understand how to proceed here:
- If you want some space on OpenACS.org to implement .NET
hooks, SOAP, or any other project where you can manage the
entire SDM segment, just email me. You will have that space
within a few hours, and I will also personally support this effort
because I, too, think it's a good thing.
- If you want to help PG have an OpenACS-backed site, I'll put
you in touch with Marc Fournier. He, Don and I discussed this a
while back, but it faded when everyone became too busy to
make it happen. If you have the time, I'd love to have you take
over that role and get the PG guys to use our stuff.
- If you want to really experiment with a Wiki, take risks, etc...
do you think that OpenACS.org is the place to do this? I don't.
However, if you want to set up a box and run a Wiki, I will point
wiki.openacs.org to it, and I will make a link from the front page
of OpenACS.org. How does that sound?
- My poll is no strawman. David said he wanted it. I won't
make a decision on the steering committee until Don gets back,
but I can make a decision on the webmaster situation given that
I am the current webmaster.
Again, I am begging you to put forth serious reasons why a
steering committee would improve the situation. "More
organization" is not an end, it is a means. A means to what?
What are we not accomplishing because we don't have enough
organization?
