Re: Activating

[Arafat Medini <lumina at silverpen dot de>]

yeah/no ;)

Am Sam, 2003-11-15 um 20.20 schrieb Nadim Shaikli:
> --- 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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