Hi,
To summarize, I really agree with the need of new ways to make important decisions for our community. Here is what I understand from our need of transparency.
- Volunteers need to be able to easily work for community, because all of what they do is awesome for us, we need it. Yes, it represent 90 or 99% of the actual duo. (thx to Ale and Django of course <3)
- We need to find a way to democratically validate critical decisions such as: ruleset evolutions, EHBPC format, mandatory mixed or not, qualifications process and so on (basically all of what @coolquentin listed).
Both points are critical, is a board the best way to adress both of them ?
And if the democratic decisions aren’t taken by a board, then how ?
So my guess is there could be two approaches:
- a board elected to take decisions and work cloesely with any volunteers (in or not in the board).
- A structure to permit at least to national or club reps to vote for any important/radical decision that was before taken by volunteers. which of course demands the work of volunteers in order to build such a structure.
This could be somehow a part of this forum.
We could also get inspired by some open source web project, where organisation is key because thousand of volunteers work on the same topic.
Maybe there’s other ways to do it. what seems important to me is to construct a legitimate structure, able to work as well as our magic duo, but also able to adress touchy subject to the community in a slightly more democratical way.
I guess it’s good to dig a bit more than just reconstruct the old comitee with the same structure. few examples :
- if there’s five members instead of 9, they’ll feel more involved, discussions should be faster, more work could be done.
- Some topics require more than 2 years of legitimacy to take any required decisions. we might need some kind of referendum as the one about mixing up the championships.
A good step would be to get feedback from @django and @Mega_shuffle from the last few years, but also from the last board to understand what wasn’t working, what worked just well and construct a structure more adequate.
Anyway, thanks @Danana to put the topic on the table, and propose to work on a transition. <3