[bestbits] Call for volunteers for working group on revision of Best Bits procedures

[Kevin Bankston]

As per discussion in todays' meeting, I'm resurfacing Jeremy's call earlier this month for volunteers to help finalize the draft Best Bits procedures (and reiterating my willingness to participate in this working group).
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Kevin S. Bankston
Policy Director, Open Technology Institute
New America Foundation
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On Aug 15, 2014, at 11:56 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jmalcolm at eff.org> wrote:

> One of the work items for the Best Bits steering committee this year was
> to have a working group thoroughly go through, discuss and propose
> revisions to the draft working procedures on our wiki, which have served
> in lieu of a formal charter for the Best Bits network:
> 
> http://bestbits.net/wiki/main/procedures/
> 
> The original concept was that discussions could happen spontaneously
> without a formal working group, using the same way that Wikipedia pages
> are developed.  But in practice we found that we do not quite have the
> critical mass for this yet, and so there have not been any discussions
> on the wiki itself.  Some procedure-related discussions have happened on
> the main mailing list, but they have not been very focused or productive
> (or, sometimes, very cordial).
> 
> This points to the need for a new dedicated fluid working group devoted
> to the revision of the procedures.  So this is a call for volunteers to
> join that group.  The group will report back to the steering committee
> and the main list with its recommendations in due course.  It is not
> expected that this will happen in time to discuss those recommendations
> at our upcoming meeting, however there should be opportunity for a
> face-to-face meeting of some of the members of the fluid working group
> in Istanbul.
> 
> Please write to me or any other member of the steering committee, on or
> off-list, if you would like to join.
> 
> -- 
> Jeremy Malcolm
> Senior Global Policy Analyst
> Electronic Frontier Foundation
> https://eff.org
> jmalcolm at eff.org
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