{"id":1743,"date":"2011-06-07T02:24:07","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T06:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2011-06-07T02:32:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T06:32:38","slug":"movement-roles-0b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2011\/06\/07\/movement-roles-0b\/","title":{"rendered":"[MR 0b] Individual and project roles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/2011\/06\/06\/movement-roles-0\/\">movement roles<\/a> of individuals, informal groups, and our many wiki projects need to be discussed by a different group of participants, reflecting the diversity of community and editorial efforts that make our projects work. \u00a0This discussion\u00a0will receive more attention from the current MR working group once its recommendations are published this summer, but\u00a0can be pursued independently from the current formal-entity discussions.<\/p>\n<p>This set of issues is very broad, perhaps the broadest set of issues raised during strategic planning. \u00a0Topics on organizational structure, dynamics, and communication all have analogies in more traditional movements and organizations. \u00a0However the constellation of independent wikiprojects, ad-hoc groups, and active individuals is closer to the structure of a town than that of a non-profit; and we have had less in the way of concrete advice on how to organize and plan such work.<\/p>\n<p>By the same token, these issues are central to the original success of the Projects, and to pressing questions such as how to increase participation, openness of projects to new types of contribution, and communication across projects. 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