Writers Guild Governance
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NEW GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK
- Governance Doc Review
- 1 requirement to maintain/attain scribe status
- Passing the Writing/Editing tests don’t count
- Role holders do not have to complete this task
- Cumulatively increase threshold for Lazy Consensus
- >51%, >61%, >71%, >81%, >91%, >95%
- Threshold increases with each season incumbent holds position
- The overhead on a system like this would be high. Should we follow the KISS methodology?
- Lazy consensus (1 week)
- >0% —> nomination/election time
- Nominee must be announced at the same time
- Nomination + Election period (1 week each)
- Consecutive 4 season term limit?
- Hiro, FreedomFighter, and Ap0ll0 agree with term limits
- How long is long enough to make a mark on the Guild? (Effectiveness)
- With effective leadership
- How long is too long? (Ossification of the Guild)
- Role holders can serve for 4 seasons but cannot serve for a 5th. After the season has passed, they may hold the office for another maximum of 4 seasons
- How do we maintain the transfer of knowledge?
- Use the Bounty Pool to train other people
- Documentation
- Notion page for tenure history
- Plagiarized work
- What’s the process for discovering plagiarism?
- What is the process of deliberation?
- Chain of evaluation:
- Leaders in respective projects
- EPA Staff Editors
- Ombuds
- If found guilty —> kicked out of the Guild
- “2 strikes and you’re out” system
- Scribe —> Scribbler —> Kicked out
- Ratification
- Put it up to a Poll
- Governance Coordinator
- Election for Governance Coordinator
- Mandatory time off
- 1 week
- What do partnerships with other organizations look like?
- How to evaluate alignment
- Amendment process —> Need a lot of consensus
- Write a proposal and need x% of people vote with some threshold
Last Week’s Action Items
Jake: Implement changes to the Governance Document
Scribe Membership status
Lazy Consensus
Update WG Election Operations Playbook
Notes
- We still have some granular issues to address within the governance framework doc, hiro proposed that we address these in S3 at the beginning of S3 and regularly update the governance ASAP and continue to update it
Action Items
Jake
Lazy Consensus Changes to gov docs
Notion page for election history
Governance Coordinator Election
FreedomFighter
Add the two strike plagiarism rule to onboarding docs