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[EN] To create a Technological Committee. [ES] Creación del Comité Tecnológico
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[EN] The technology committee is responsible for giving guidance in architecture, evaluating large changes in the code, refactorings, integrations. This team must work hand in hand with the technical office and the product committee.
[ES] El comité tecnológico es el responsable de dar orientaciones en la arquitectura, evaluar grandes cambios en el código, refactorizaciones, integraciones. Este equipo debe trabajar de la mano de la oficina técnica y el comité de producto.
Reference: MDC-COLL-2018-12-24
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Conversation with Virgile Deville
As discussed with @carol as we are planning to formalize committees to formalize regular encounters online (video conference) and offline (jam). It's been sometimes hard to follow closely the project due to not being in Barcelona being to attend physical meetings.
This is not only true for the technological committee and could be address as a larger issue. Let me know if we should create another collaborative draft. In the last SOM we also discussed with @carol and @josep how we might want to formalize some basic process such as organizing a meeting so time spent together is always the most efficiently used. Good practices like having the meeting agenda prepared before hand, distribute roles someone to take note, somone for time keeping etc.
Hi @virgille_deville. I totally agree with what you suggest. And we do distribute roles, take notes, etc. What happens is that right now the organization of Decidim was too much tied to Barcelona City Council for a lack of a more open and multi-institutional organization. In many occasions the Tech team (an assembly fo meta.decidim) has done just right on the minutes, roles, etc. We very often where only 3-4 people, no dev companies turned out :-(
In general I think the new committees should exploit Decidim to its limits regarding communication, debates, and decision making, and have few but very well structured and efficient meetings, with the best possible online accessibility to join from outside Barcelona.
@xabier do you think we have some kind of committee responsible for creating and formalizing processes?
For decentralized organization there is generally to options :
- embracing chaos which gives a lot of latitude for innovation and independance but makes progressing in a single direction hard to track
- formalizing the way we work and handle things in a couple basic processes which we enforce to gain clarity an efficiency.
I think Decidim would fit more in the later. Though maybe a committee for processes might be too much, maybe each committee should be transparent and have a responsability to document its processes.
Each participatory process should have a "promoting group" or a team that formalized it. Sometimes there is also "follow-up team" ("comité de seguimient") which is a team or working group or committee with representatives of the diverse sub-groups and interest of the process, and it monitors and evaluates (as a "democratic guarantee team") the procedure of the process, we have one of these for the governance process for example. Not sure I fully answered your question.
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