[diversity-talk] wikipedia parallels

[Clifford Snow]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com>wrote:

> The problem with the Strategic Working Group, and the now, "Future
> Working Group" is that they tend to be proscriptive. "We should be",
> which is actually "You should be"- and no one likes to be told what to
> do with their spare time.
>
> Serge - that isn't the intent of the Future Group. Please don't
mischaracterize what we've said and done.


>  Instead, when possible, the energy one might otherwise expend trying
> to change everyone's opinion about how they should spend their free
> time would be better spent doing the work that needs doing, and then
> getting people to agree to it afterwards.
>

What the Future Group is doing is data collection. That is well before we
ever make any recommendations. Rather than going off on our own, we are
working with the community on what they want done. As opposed to going off
and doing something and then seeing if the community likes, it as you
suggested.


-- 
Clifford

OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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