[Community] summary of last week's (3/28/2007) call

[Eugene Eric Kim]

Bill Washburn wrote:
> If the only power or influence the Stewards Council has respecting a
> recognized working group is removal, well obviously I am out of
> alignment and ignorant of some elements of the overaching philosophy of
> Identity Commons.  By my lights, the Stewards Council having only the
> power of out and out removal of a working group is tantamount to having
> nothing but the brute force of a sledgehammer or a gun.  It is too blunt
> and so unsubtle as to be useless in the day-to-day of work of normal life.
> 
> For example:
> 
> What if there were a high visibility and intrinsically worthwhile
> working group recognized by Identity Commons that was: 1.  expending
> lots of IC resources (financial and otherwise), 2. was  highly active
> and 3. had members within the working group with a relentless attitude
> of saying ugly, untrue, unfriendly and/or unfounded (pick your favorite)
> things about other IC recognized working groups.  Do you all really
> believe that the only thing the Stewards Council should be able to do is
> vote them out or ignore them? 

Bill, what do you think would be the right thing to do in this situation?

=Eugene

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