HIG meeting in Malaga, September 1st

[Thomas Zander]

On Sunday 04 September 2005 18:22, Olaf Jan Schmidt wrote:
> KDE currently has a very flat hierarchy. I want to keep this and
> decide and discuss as much as possible on the relevant mailinglists
> for the topic itself. The flat hierarchy also means that I see the
> chair as a coordinator and common voice rather then the one deciding
> how the workgroup will work. For this reason I suggest to postpone the
> decision about the chair until we know who will be involved in the
> workgroup and what the ideas of the members are.

We are required to choose one person in the HCI group that is going to be 
the intermediate between the EV board and us.  I have the impression 
that that job brings responsibilities but very little influence on the 
procedings themselves. So a boring and annoying job :)
I'm very happy that Kenneth stepped up to do work in that department.


> Together with Gunnar I agreed to find people for this workgroup. In
> the last days I have spoken to as many people from the various HCI
> subprojects as possible. Unfortunately Kenneth is one of the few
> people that I missed, so I don't know his ideas. The people who know
> him describe him as the right person for the job, so I will probably
> be more than happy to support him as the workgroup chair at a later
> point of the process.

IMOHO backing one person at this stage in the process means we begin to 
bring in structure that can be refined over time.
This is different from what I read from your view above in that the 
choosing of the chair makes the process easier, but does not impair our 
ability to overrule his ideas.

So, don't worry :)

-- 
Thomas Zander
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