Your executive committee
Greetings from the fledgling Executive Committee. My name is Sarah Tuttle. I’m a constable, I’ve been doing personnel work, and now I’m serving as secretary for the EC. There have been some issues raised about transparency and about the need for an executive committee. I think when you see our current agenda (next post) you’ll recognize that 1) there is a ton of stuff, and for us to be ready for our big opening we need to keep things moving along and 2) Lots of groups want to be involved at an institutional level. Hundreds (maybe thousands) of people can’t negotiate at that level. We’re temporary, and we’re here to help get CZ to the place where things are running smoothly. One of the big discussions that will need to happen is a conversation (and decision) about long term governance. For us, in the short term, the job we do will be easier the more involved and invested the community is. We’ll throw things out there, the need for policy or new ideas. But the action is coming from you. We’re like… your administrative office. For now. The community might decide a different structure will work better, and that’s up to you to tell us too. Remember, we’re all in the land of volunteers working towards similar goals.
Without holding out any longer I’d like to introduce you to the executive committee. We’re a mixture of authors, editors, tech folk and constables. We span from the very experienced to below the drinking age (although I think we can all vote, in our respective countries). Come find us on the wiki or on the list. We’d love to hear from you.
The Citizendium Executive Committee (in alphabetical order):
Peter Hitchmough
Ruth Ifcher
Mike Johnson
Gareth Leng
Sorin Matei
Zachary Pruckowski
Ori Redler
Freddie Salsbury
Jason Sanford
Larry Sanger
Nancy Sculerati MD
Sarah Tuttle
Phil Wardle
Hi Sarah,
If you want to hear from people, then I would recommend lifting the moderation
on the Citizendium List. The current set up does not facilitate real dialogue.
Most discussion lists these days get by with standard spam filters, and it’s not
really necessary to have such tight moderation of each and every post, releasing
them all at once in a flood, once or twice a day.
Many regards,
Jon Awbrey
Comment by Jon Awbrey — November 10, 2006 @ 8:36 pm
I thought restrictions on the Purdue lists were lifted?!
I am going to try and consolidate all the lists/forums ASAP. :/
-jtp
Comment by Jason Potkanski — November 11, 2006 @ 9:29 am
Hi there!
Just a general comment: You say ” We span from (…) to below the drinking age.” about a group of, as you say, “authors, editors, tech folk and constables”, that has been elevated to be the executive committee. Well, one day when there was a call for people who are interested in serving as what at that time was called community managers. I applied and, despite me being above the drinking age (only to refer back to the blog article), was considered too young. I didn’t even aim for anything as fancy as the executive committee, I was just looking to be just a little helper in this project, a “worker in the wineyard of our lord”, so to speak.
I now have applied again using the now simplified way of applying for a role in the pilot project and, especcially after having read this blog article, I hope not to be disappointed.
Benedikt Kroll
Comment by Benedikt Kroll — November 22, 2006 @ 12:23 am