Let’s pick this up again to achieve clarity. We just kind of swept the whole admin question under the rug. However, I think it’s a very important question and since we want to use Discourse as one of our main communications platform it’s even more important.
We have some limitations and crucial information regarding admins:
- We can only have 5 since the platform is graciously hosted by Discourse – thanks for that!
- Admins can obviously change settings, close topics, change everything about the site …
- Admins can read the private messages of any member and impersonate anyone, hence there needs to be a very high level of trust: https://meta.discourse.org/t/admins-can-clearly-see-all-private-messages-of-all-users/26794
- They are shown publicly at https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/about
I would suggest everyone nominates 5 people they absolutely trust to be admins of this forum, based on factors such as time of involvement, having met them in person or having had a call with them, history of good decisions, engagement in the community, organization of events, commitment to openness, etc.
My nominations are:
- @evalica - long-term involvement, organization of the FOSDEM Open Source Design room 2017
- @simonv3 - long-term involvement, website and overall organization work
- @belenbarrospena - long-term involvement, organization of the first two FOSDEM Open Source Design rooms, job board submission form
- @jdittrich - organization of the regular Berlin meetup, coordination work
- @victoria-bondarchuk - organization of the FOSSASIA Design track, talks at different events
(I only did not nominate @bnvk because he specifically stated he does not want to be very involved in the forum.)
Your nominations please.
Current tally, sorted by votes:
- @jan 14 votes
- @evalica 13 votes
- @belenbarrospena 13 votes
- @simonv3 13 votes
- @jdittrich 12 votes
- @ei8fdb 4 votes
- @victoria-bondarchuk 3 votes (stated she doesn’t necessarily want to be admin)
- @pdurbin 2 votes
- @elioqoshi 1 vote
- @bnvk 1 vote (stated he doesn’t want to be very involved inthe forum)
People who nominated already: @jan @belenbarrospena @simonv3 @victoria-bondarchuk @evalica @gilli @ei8fdb @jdittrich @eppfel @htietze @Xaviju @rioev @elioqoshi @ryangorley @Incabell @pdurbin
People yet to nominate their 5 candidates: @grahamperrin @studiospring @rosanardila @guiguru @danila.pellicani … and you, if you read this 