[SeasonOfDocs] Bootstrapping TheGoodDocsProject Steering Committee

[Cameron Shorter]

Good questions Clarence,

These procedures are based on a principle of "just enough process". 
Enough to provide a guiding framework without burdening people with red 
tape. It relies on volunteers thinking altruistically to apply common 
sense and good judgement.

I've noticed that if intrinsically motivated people are selected to join 
a community, and you assume the community will act wisely and in the 
interests of all, then most people in the community do act wisely and in 
the interests of all (and everyone has more fun in the process).

Communities with more rules do work and I'm open to adopting them. But I 
feel the red tape overhead doesn't add enough value to make it worth 
adopting.

Cheers, Cameron

On 17/7/19 2:19 pm, Clarence Cromwell wrote:
> I agree with the governance document 
> <https://github.com/camerons/governance/blob/master/ProjectSteeringCommittee.rst>in 
> Cameron's fork of the repo.
>
> Additional questions:
>
>   * Would we ever want a quorum voting in order for an item to be able
>     to pass? (If not all the time, then for important issues?)
>   * Is there any sort of guideline about what questions require a
>     vote? (What questions are too small to be worth the overhead, and
>     what questions must be voted?)
>
On 14/7/19 9:02 pm, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> In order to get our decision making processes set up, I've written a 
> draft Project Steering Committee governance doc for TheGoodDocsProject.
> https://github.com/camerons/governance/blob/master/ProjectSteeringCommittee.rst

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