Re: De-mystifying the Core team

[Omar Abo-Namous <merlin12345 at gmx dot de>]

Salam,

please don't start politizing this whole platform. It never should be about
who's the leader. And it doesn't have to be. I didn't follow up on how the prob
started, some seem to take that very personal

???? ---- "My final word: If you feel you can't do the job,
PLEASE step aside from core" --- ??? (misstep?)

I think arabeyes is about developing free (and obviously arabic) applications.
I'm against voting on "core" members (which is allready a vote :=)) because
there aren't any BIG dicisions they can make besides drawing the general lines,
the rest of the work is done by the ones who take responsibility for a project
(and these don't have to be core members) So if arabeyes won't host your
project, just look for another group; without tears...

Barakallah fi everyone contributing. When i first "met" this site i was
astonished to the amount of real WORK done by muslims/arabs. (didn't imagine it
was possible) Please don't let that vision be just a mirage.

Salam.

Omar


On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 14:21:36 -0800 (PST), Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> --- Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at arabeyes dot org> wrote:
>>
>> http://www.arabeyes.org/download/documents/about/charter-ar.pdf
>>
> [snip snip]
>>
>> By no means is 'core' meant to be some elitist group. It is simply a
>> means to manage the overall project while giving individual projects
>> freedom to operate with great autonomy.
>
> 'core' is no where close to elitist or in an 'ivory tower', we conduct
> all our meetings in the open and invite anyone to join-in and listen
> (a few had done that in the past).  All our minutes and agendas are
> online in CVS and we welcome any and all criticism especially those that
> relate to improving the process and Arabeyes (given they don't focus
> on personal issues and stick to substantive topics).
>
> http://cvs.arabeyes.org/viewcvs/ae_admin/
>
> A few things to note while on the topic of the charter and 'core'.
>
> 1. We've talked about annual elections to elect 'core' members but
> have not yet drawn-up the text or instituted the policy - we should
> have that done soon'ish.
>
> 2. In the charter, I would much rather replace items 7c, 7d and 8 with
> an odd number of people to constitute 'core'.  This would be much
> easier to comprehend and much easier to deal with (its all-around
> simpler and doesn't require any more effort from any one person and
> fosters and sense of equality).  If OK'ed, 'core' will have to grow
> to 5 people.
>
> Salam.
>
> - Nadim
>
>
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Omar Abo-Namous, merlin12345 at gmx dot de on 31.03.2004