On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Dave Cridland <dave(_at_)cridland(_dot_)net>
wrote:
Nice post.
I wonder whether a better mechanism for drawing newcomers into the inner
circle - which is what I think you're intent is here - would be to randomly
select people to be involved in a short online meeting to discuss the
draft, rather than review it in isolation.
It'd be a different kind of review, which adds value for us, I think, and
would instantiate new human subnets which could be used to bootstrap other
involvement.
I think that would be a useful additional approach (maybe have those
randomly selected meet online before starting the reviews). I do want to
be sensitive, though, to the language barriers to some extent. I used to
recommend that folks interested in participating in a working group start
by being a scribe; I realized eventually how hard that was for some
participants whose native language was not English. It's still useful for
those for whom real-time capture of rapidly moving discussion is feasible,
but we need something that allows folks time to reflect as well.
Just my 2 cents,
regards,
TEd
This is, I stress, merely a quick reaction to your much more thoughtful
post, and I reserve the right to backtrack and change my mind.