Thread:Sections that make up a charter (10)

Patricia, Thanks so much for your thoughts. The discussion has been quite far-ranging. You have some good ideas that I don't think have been brought up yet. Here are my thoughts on various points:

"Listing participants skills pertaining to the tasks of working groups..."


 * I think we are all in agreement on this.

"I think we need a "Workgroup Buddy" kind of person who takes up the task to make the transition for the newcomer easier"


 * Good idea. Some of the Workgroups will (I think) require substantial effort with no end date. They may begin with the task of creating a policy, and then take on the role of implementation (e.g., the group that creates the policy to deal with spam morphs into group that implements the policy, including a portion that has day-to-day tasks). We will need a system to bring new people into a workgroup and get them up to speed. I will add this idea to the sustaining workgroups section of the guidelines.

"If we are talking about participants skills in general, maybe a short paragraph at the top..."


 * I think we've got this in the charter.

"...we should decentralise our efforts..." and share the work among many.


 * Totally agree. I'm hopeful that the implementation of Workgroups will do this -- 1-2 facilitators per group, without much overlap across groups (although likely overlap of members).

"I think we need a catalogue of distribution of tasks to be done when facilitating online..."


 * Not sure what you mean, probably because this is my first time facilitating online. Anything to help newcomers get up to speed on this would be very helpful.

"Boundaries"..."not pulling "your" weight ...WE guidelines. For me flexibility is the key word,..."


 * I suspect these sections of the charter were originally designed for paid employees forced to work together to achieve some objective. WE are here by choice, which certainly changes things, but I'm not sure exactly how. Will be interesting to see how these sections are used by different groups.

"...harness the power of the user page..."


 * I think we should revamp the participant section on our first draft charter to drop the skills table and maybe also the user statements -- we could suggest that users include a brief bio statement at the top of the user page for quick review when determining if a group's participants cover the needed skills. I think I'll put this issue into a separate thread.

"Maybe another type of working group is required, for instance, for the compilation of expertises ... WE community Improvement working groups. Two ideas.


 * Two good examples of possible future Workgroups.

"...email notifications..."


 * Let's think how to create a communication method for this group that does not depend on email notification. Should we set up an alternative to the talk page?

"Evaluation:..."


 * I suspect that evaluation will be another learning process. Hopefully we can benefit from what others have learned on this already.

I think the group is largely on the same page, conceptually....just need to work out the details.

Thanks again for taking the time to write out your thoughts. Appreciate your checking in.

--Alison Snieckus 01:40, 16 July 2009 (UTC)