I plan to revisit the original Steering Committee thread, initially I would attend because I would not want to be “on the outer” of any developments in the tiddlywiki community, and I am keen to contribute. But like @boris
- Especially in the absence of other structures that relate to such a committee, not that I want them either.
Thanks however to @joshuafontany for organising this I have a lot of respect for your views and contributions here. Since you are in PST UTC -8:00 and I am in Australia, Eastern Standard time +10, I am + 18 hours different, so this may just work, how do our English tiddlywikian’s currently at UTC -1 fit into this?
In case I don’t attend, even if I do, can I suggest,
- one of the first things that is done is a minimalist definition of what the committee is, is penciled out, and Published, perhaps in a dedicated Discourse Topic.
- A mission and vision would not go astray here.
- Additional items can be added over time.
- May I suggest that what ever it does it makes sure that if someone is not on the committee they are not at a disadvantage, that is there are ways to be involved without being on the committee and attending.
- Please be carful not to over define it, I expect a few more semi-formal groups and meetups will help with overall community development.
- A good approach would be for future meetings, publishing a short agenda listing topic of discussion people can choose to prioritise there attendance at. shorter but more regular meetings is possibly better.
- I think it important to consider developing at least one other more casual forum in which dev’s lurk and users/super users voice issues and potentials.
- In other examples of something similar a steering committee key role is to have people representing the different roles people have. This could be used to craft the diversity needed on a committee.
I have being on a range of steering and community committees over the years so these ideas are based on experience. The most common mistake is too big an agenda and too long meetings.
- In fact I am actually planning to build a tiddlywiki specifically to support such groups.
Finally as long as I am available I can use my Zoom account if requested, I may even be able to delegate to others for when its outside my time zone.