[FM Discuss] Recruiting more editors for book sprints

[Andy Oram]

What you did was pretty extraordinary, Adam, like a grand chess master 
watching four boards at once and playing each its own way. I bet there 
are certain directions and problems you can pick up quickly now, like 
books that are all over the place with no clear audience or purpose. And 
maybe if a facilitator is dedicated a project, he or she can carry out 
the jobs I mentioned. The facilitator could be an editor. But I feel 
like I was doing something useful that was not just high-level.

Andy

On 10/22/2011 11:38 PM, adam hyde wrote:
> 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
>
>
>>
>> Andy
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