Am Samstag, den 14.01.2012, 18:56 +0000 schrieb MJ Ray:
Decisions about one's own work for the team seemed to be usually taken by the team, even when they do not affect anyone else much.
I have worked in a number of teams and never experienced this.
It seems to me that you made an experience in a specific case (you proposed a change of license of our web pages) which was turned down, could it be that you're generalizing from this a little too much?
Even worse: the process is flexible and up to the group to define, as well as all members of the group are fine with it.
Sorry I just saw I wrote nonsense: it should of course mean "as *long* as all members of the group are fine with it".
I know that some Fellowship groups make decisions while they meet over a beer.
To such groups, I wish a abstemious temperance teetotaller!
I said over *a* beer ;-)
[... 3. Decisions never reported ...]
FWIW, I don't think that this is a matter of democracy, it's a matter of communication.
I think it's both. Communication is necessary for democracy.
Communication *inside* a democratic organisation is of course necessary for democracy. Certainly we can also improve that, but in this thread we were (or at least I was) talking about communication to the outside.
Thanks, Reinhard