Thread:Thoughts on exceptions (1)

Hi Anil,

Great start on the consensus document.

Some thoughts on the exception:

''"Declarations from the founder, OER Foundation and WikiEducator Community Council, particularly for copyright, legal issues, or server load, have policy status" ''

Personally I don't think that the Founder, OER Foundation, WCC have any preferential rights pertaining to consensus. ALL wikieducators should strive to achieving consensus in their work. At the same time we should not confuse governance with a recommended process for decision-making in WE.

In areas where consensus cannot be achieved and where the issue at hand may have community-wide impact -- the could for example defer to Council for arbitration on a contentious matter (but I would suggest only those issues which will have a community wide impact. Regarding content related matters, perhaps WE would consider an arbitration Workgroup or something like this to help achieve consensus.

Just a few initial thoughts.