[OSM-talk] sysadmin requests, dev accounts

[Tom Carden]

On 25/07/06, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
> Continuing in my mad quest to keep OSM all to myself, due to my hatred
> of you all...
>

Speaking of which, it's not exactly about the same topic but I was
reading an article about online groups this morning and this paragraph
was strangely resonant:

"Consensus is a mess - it's quite clear that not everyone likes
everyone else. It was much easier when folks felt stuck with the other
people and could blame the benevolent dictator. Now that everyone has
veto, it's clear that no one passes the everyone test. Representative
democracy is also disastrous because the representatives were trying
to be good by everyone and they end up getting resented by everyone
and then depressed personally... few people want to attend
bureaucratic meetings and even fewer want to be representatives. As
time goes on, it becomes quite clear that we were much better off with
a self-appointed benevolent dictator with an ego that could handle
everyone's bitching. And besides, people *like* bitching, regardless
of who is handling what. That's the beauty of urban tribes - they run
on drama as fuel. Of course, you don't _elect_ a benevolent dictator
so how do you turn back?"

-- http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2006/07/24/an_ode_to_a_mat.html

Still think we need a foundation of course, and a sustainable process
for running it.  Happy that Steve is chairman for the foreseeable
future though!

Tom.