[wp-forums] Doing it for free. - the people

[Handy]

I prefer to think of myself as half-witty.

But yeah, I really like TG's suggestion.  It strikes me as much more
logical/rational (perhaps even defendable) than some of the tripe I
suggested earlier.


-- Handy

On 4/26/06, TechGnome <tg at tannagh.com > wrote:
>
> Great, now none of us will make the cut. None of us have any wits about
> us.
>
> Aaaanyways.... It can and probably should be subjective. Having people
> apply? Eh, I'm not too keen on that.... you'll get all kinds of people
> applying.  The bottom line should be, would YOU trust this person with
> the keys of your kingdom? There are a few people I would trust with this
> info (nearly all of whom are on this list), and mostly it's because I've
> dealt with them before, they have a long standing in the community, and
> their help has been top notch.
>
> It should be the other way around... by invite. The process would work
> like this:
> 1) Person is nominated to be an installer
> 1a) Person is asked if they want to be one
> 2) Committee reviews the nomination (should be a black box process)
> 3) Committee approves or disapproves the nomination
> 4) Person is notified of outcome
>
> I've seen this process work successfully before. Steps 1 & 4 would/could
> be made public, 1a is done as a private email to the nominee, but steps
> 2 & 3 is done out of the public. I know this kinda goes against Podz's
> concept of being transparent, but we are talking about the integrity and
> security of other people's blogs, they deserve the right to know that
> the installers have been fully vetted and can be trusted.
>
> -tg
>
> Handy wrote:
> > Great questions.  As a hopeful volunteer, I suppose I shouldn't poison
> the
> > well too much..
> >
> > Hopefully y'all will definitely look at some *fuzzy* amount/quality of
> > involvement in WP to avoid folks signing up for a forums account and
> > volunteering the next day.   However, I've only been around for half a
> year,
> > so to many I'm still a Johnny-come-lately.  Maybe name a small "council"
> or
> > team of reviewers and have hopefuls actually apply?  A simple online
> form
> > would likely suffice as a place to list out skills and resume'ish type
> > information.  Just a thought.
> > Hmm...  Glad I'm not you!
> >
> > I say go for measurable attributes:  Sex appeal and charm.  ;-)  Oh -
> and
> > wit.  Can't forget wit.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 4/26/06, Podz <podz at tamba2.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> At some point the issue of who will actually be doing this arises.
> >> Potentially it is contentious but hopefully we can agree something that
>
> >> is fair.
> >>
> >> At the last #meetup in response to someone suggesting that security of
> >> information was a potential problem, Matt stated "we already have
> >> concepts of trust with each other based on how long someone has been
> >> around, how they contribute, etc " which I think is an excellent view.
> >>
> >> The point I think we also need to come from is not who do we let join,
> >> but what is the marker for joining? How do we do this to include people
>
> >> rather than exclude people? This making sense?
> >>
> >> I do not think it should just be moderators only, as has been said
> >> before and I agree with there are some excellent people in the forum
> who
> >> may wish to take on the extra work too.
> >> Excellent is a fuzzy word though.
> >>
> >> Given this is purely for the benefit of people coming to WordPress and
> >> that we must be seen to be very competent (I imagine that when this
> >> happens it will be scrutinised) how do we choose who can help inside
> >> this? How many should there be?
> >>
> >> P.
> >>
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