Re: Activating

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Anmar Oueja <anmar at arabeyes dot org> wrote:
> How do we empower non active members. We have lots of members
> unfortunately, many of them are not active. What can we do, how,
> when and where ?

We had a long discussion about this topic (and thus the email) during
our weekly 'core' meeting (we'll start posting the meeting notices/times
on this list to see more people join us to listen to what is being said
and to get more people involved -- all these notices are currently on
our 'core' mailing-list btw).  My suggestion (again this is simply a
suggestion and is meant to further engage people) is to,

 1. Update our global list of things that need to be done and/or things
    that are still open and/or pending.  For instance,
     + Arabic inclusion into emacs
     + Quran data files
     + Unified Arabic LUG
     + Font completion and corrections
     + Bidi and inclusion of shaping
       etc
       etc
    Please don't reply to the above list, it's only meant to show what I
    mean by the list.

 2. I also suggested that we need to assign active people to items so that
    they take ownership of them (the assignment being done either randomly
    and/or people will vie to take on certain things).  Again, the problem
    (from my point of view) is that we seem to be finding all the 
    problems/issues, but we are not following through with the issue to get
    it completely resolved and so we (as a group) tend to find problems,
    point them out, suggest something and move-on (while we need to
    completely close on issues and resolve it one way or another).

These were my suggestions and I even volunteered to get the list mentioned
above created and updated (which I'll do in anyways so that maybe it will
lead to something that Anmar suggested - 'a single complete progress page').

What do others think (don't simply say "yeah/no" - give us more feedback and
be as critical as you want) ?  This is your chance and opportunity to really
make a difference on how this organization functions and moves forward.

Salam.

 - Nadim

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