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[Quinn Wood <wood.quinn.s AT gmail.com>]

On May 1, 2014, at 5:44, Simon <simon AT hacknix.net> wrote:
> To extend your analogy further, you might not get invited to the bar, but 
> you shouldn't miss out on important business-critical decisions and 
> discussions. These should be discussed using more formal means; by email or 
> in a meeting.
> 
If it's none of your business, as the great majority of these things are to 
99% of OpenNIC's members, why do you care? Large businesses don't publish 
newsletters or invite hourly workers to board meetings to discuss topics 
irrelevant to people not present in the decision-making and action-taking 
populace.

The recent work that's been done on the LDAP system is one example. How many 
people are seriously working on that? One, maybe two? How many people are 
seeing a loss in available resources because of the work being done? Huh, 
only those persons.

When real resources are used, and when everyone is non-trivially affected, 
then people are allowed to complain about the lack of bureaucracy and that 
their preferred communication method is t being used. And even then, only 
when effective tools are made available to do so. Some level of policy 
drafting and tool creation is currently happening.

If you'd like to participate, hop on IRC and ask who's involved. There's a 
flow in instant messaging that simply doesn't exist in email, and that's why 
we go from ideas to actions more quickly compared to the "not any ever" 
days/weeks/months-long mailing list discussions turn into action.