Re: Arabeyes Charter Proposal

[Isam Bayazidi <bayazidi at arabeyes dot org>]

On Thursday 14 March 2002 01:06 am, Mohammed Elzubeir wrote:
> Isam, Anything else to add?
>
> I would like to have a vote on this sometime soon, so we can have a core
> meeting scheduled, next week. Everyone whip out your schedule books
> [I know Nadim's schedule of course ;)].

Well, As I thought .. after Nadim commented in the charter I had another 
point of view regarding it .. 

Well first I think tha the Charter is needed to reduce time spent discussing 
already agreed upon, and issues already decided .. on the other hand, I see 
things in the Charter that should not be there, such as the diffinisions of 
roles and responsabilities .. I think the duties and TODO for the members are 
flexable, note that Nadim (who is the PR guy) did some very good development, 
Chahine (R&D) did good PR with people in Tunisia, Moe had been doing a great 
job in coordinating the KDE translation, and I did some PR and so as well.. 
and it had been so fun with good outcome .. 

Now, responsabilities change upon the time availabilitiy and the raise of new 
issues to deal with .. The better way to manage this is to make a TODO list 
that is checked upon every 2 weeks.. and is flexable ( with no hard feelings 
at all) to move duties from one person to another acording to performance and 
other factors ..

Now things that SHOULD be mentioned is that the core SHOULD have 
monthly,bi-monthly,weekly, or whatever meetings .. I see he Charter 
mentioning an ellection every 2 years, and mentioning the Core Meetings :-)

The way I see the charter now is that is more of a constitution than a 
charter .. I think it should not be that specific (note  D.3), it should have 
things like the voting procedure, decision making procedure, proposal 
procedure, communication channels, and so .. and not mention the election or 
spesific cases or so .. 

Anyhow again, I think the Charter should be simple, staight to point, and 
gives guidance more than dictation....

I see no need to rush on it in this time.

-- 
Yours,
Isam Bayazidi
Amman - Jordan
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