[FM Discuss] Recruiting more editors for book sprints

[adam hyde]

hey

>
> I assume Adam has reached the same conclusions, and that's why he
> invited floaters to the sprint last week.

I think you might underestimate the role of the meta facilitation during 
this event. I dont wish to take issue with your report or diminish your 
role but each group was *carefully* watched by myself. If your group had 
not progressed with or without you I would have taken the process a 
different route. Its not the necessity of floaters that is at question 
it is the role and nature of the of the facilitation that makes the 
difference. The fact that you didnt see this is a pretty good metric of 
successful facilitation. I think your question is using the wrong lens.

> So as always I'm pondering the value of professionalism in
> crowdsourced work like this, and how it can be institutionalized.

There is a tension here that I think is also captured in one of your 
blog posts. Institutionalisation will kill this process. I think you are 
fundamentally not understanding the nature of communities and 
collaboration. The publishing industry at large will struggle to make 
headway in this area unless they find a way to get past many of its 
established core cultural values.

adam


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