[MEI-L] Proposals MEI Strategy Development Group

[Johannes Kepper]

Dear community,

Thanks Benni for bringing this up. I hope everyone in the community recognizes the effort that went into the preparation of these proposals. The best reply by the community would now be a lively discussion. Thus, I encourage everyone to speak up. Do these proposals reflect your personal views on and hopes for MEI? If not, how could they be modified? What else would you like to see? Have they missed something?

MEI is a community project, and as such, it is up to the community to define the rules of it. It is certainly no one's intention to overregulate things, but last year in Mainz, we felt that there should be a more transparent model for MEI. Now is the time to discuss. There is no right or wrong, there are just arguments… I know that this is going to be hard work, but both the strategy group and the other interim group installed last year would really love to reach a consensus on this, instead of voting. This is only possible if we put all arguments out there. I'm sure someone will feed summaries of the Google Doc comments into the MEI-L discussion on a regular basis, but please use both channels to have a say on this. 

We hope to reach a consensus before or at the conference (about seven weeks ahead). I hope this schedule keeps us all focussed, and we manage to set up simple and clear rules for the future organization of MEI.

Best,
Johannes (not the keeper, but the Kepper)




Am 02.04.2014 um 15:13 schrieb Benjamin Wolff Bohl <bohl at edirom.de>:

> Dear MEI-L,
> 
> after Music Encoding Conference 2013 MEI Strategy Development Group (MEI-Strat) was formed in order to elaborate proposals for future organization of MEI community. During the past months we have been working in order to start discussion on potential future forms of organizing MEI community.
> 
> Now with the Music Encoding Conference 2014 being just around the corner it seems appropriate to start discussion on this subject matter, as we hope to distil a common community consensus on what might be new and openly communicated structures of MEI. Furthermore we intend to prepare presenations and a basis for further discussion for this year's conference (May 20-23 in Charlottesville, VA).
> 
> ==A short disclaimer==
> Please be aware that anything in the proposal is indicative and subject to discussion, be it the individual proposals in general, or specific details, e.g. the length of terms for elected members.
> 
> ==Words of thank==
> We thank the MEI community for the possibility to work on this subject matter, and for the confidence in our group!
> I personally like to thank all collaborators for their time, effort and good thoughts all of which were provided on expense of their private free time!
> 
> ==The Discussion==
> The document containing our proposals is openly available online via google-Drive (no login required). Although modification of the text is not possible comments may be inserted by anyone with the link. Feel free to provide your identity when commenting or just submit anonymously.
> Of course it is not intended to discuss all raised topics in the document. A lively discussion on MEI-L would be warmly welcome so bring anything of interest to discussion there!
> 
> ==The Document==
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IBvbKFM1fo4lwyFnIYnneUhfwTj4DLrAmtCSUfqzeQs/edit?usp=sharing
> 
> 
> With many thanks to all collaborators,
> for the MEI Strategy Development Group,
> Benajmin W. Bohl
> - Keeper
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