process Re: [bestbits] [Meeting Report]: friday meeting with fadi et all

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 01/11/13 00:44, Andrew Puddephatt wrote:
>
> I think the precise position is that Best Bits is a platform that
> enables action/collaboration.  As a platform it therefore does not
> sign letters  in its own right – a letter goes from the organisations
> willing to sign it directly not BB itself.  It’s an important
> distinction and one we need to be careful about.
>

I agree.  However the current draft procedures on the process wiki at
http://bestbits.net/wiki/main/procedures allow a narrow exception to
this, reflecting our existing practices as they have emerged - but it is
in italics, indicating that it remains especially debatable:

    /In exceptional cases where a large proportion of participants are
    physically present or otherwise actively express their views about a
    statement, and it appears that it enjoys full consensus of those
    participants, they may resolve that it be issued as a statement “of
    the Best Bits coalition”./

(Disclaimer again: not all parts of the Best Bits website are working
again, following the server crash.  Thanks for your patience.)

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