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Also from my personal perspective:<br>
1- I always assumed that the current Council would remain in place
until the future Board is installed;<br>
2- the conference is approaching, and I see this as a precious
opportunity for both informal and formal discussion. So (at this
point) I would wait until the end of it to draw any conclusion.
Then the proposals could be fine-tuned and re-submitted for final
discussion and approval to the list. As for Benjamin's excellent
idea, we could attach a resumé of all pros/cons that people will
have expressed so far (I am sure that those members of the
Strat-group who will be in Charlottesville would be happy to
collect more opinions--certainly I would). <br>
Best,<br>
Giuliano<br>
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Benjamin Wolff Bohl wrote on 08/05/2014 11:01:<br>
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thanks for your questions, tah I'll answer below from my
personal perspective:<br>
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Am 06.05.2014 21:18, schrieb Johannes Kepper:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Dear all,
thanks to those that did respond to the strategy group's proposals. For those who didn't – it's not too late, please give some feedback and help us to shape the future MEI. You can find the document with the proposals at
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IBvbKFM1fo4lwyFnIYnneUhfwTj4DLrAmtCSUfqzeQs/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IBvbKFM1fo4lwyFnIYnneUhfwTj4DLrAmtCSUfqzeQs/edit?usp=sharing</a>
Since we're approaching the conference, I'd like to ask some questions.
- All proposals don't make a statement about the current MEI Council. Was this an intentional decision? If I remember correctly, there was some concern about this group last year. I know that it won't be easy to find a solution for this one, but I think we should address it in one way or the other…</pre>
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This is a great hint, I guess we just missed to articulate
anything about this. From my part I always was assuming, that any
new Board would replace the "current Council" but others might
have another opinion?! <br>
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<pre wrap="">- At first glance, it seems that the first proposal triggered most feedback. Would it be a correct observation that most in the community prefer this over the other two _in principle_, but still would like to clarify some details about it? Please don't get me wrong – I don't want to get rid of the other two proposals, I just want to get a sense of where we are drifting. If you think my impression is wrong (which is perfectly possible), please disagree – either here on MEI-L or in the document linked above. If you like the other proposals (or aspects of them), please speak up – the sooner the better. Please remember that the google document gives the possibility of anonymous feedback, if you prefer. </pre>
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Getting a feeling if general tendencies towards one of the
proposals would be indeed very interesting! Nevertheless the
comment frequency is not to be taken as general tendency towards
one or the other... for example Raffaele shared a quite good
argument for Model B over this list:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"> In general, I prefer Model B: it's lean
and reflects well the size of the community. It also keeps the
focus on the Guidelines and releases, which I agree with Sigfrid
are the most important product of this community. I feel model B
will allows us to move forward without having to jump through
too many administrative hoops, while tasking people with
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Maybe we should try come up with a general pros-and-cons list for
each Model?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Benjamin<br>
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Thanks again for your interest and participation.
Best,
Johannes
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