RE: [dita] Chair Honorarium

[kris eberleinconsulting.com <kris@eberleinconsulting.com>]

Hi, Jim.

 

I am delighted to see that you are thinking about the TC problems and proposing a potential solution for us to consider.

 

As current chair, I donât feel a need for a honorarium â but future chairs might. I usually average 4-6 hours a week doing âchair work.â (Iâll list out what that involves later in this e-mail.)

 

For me, the current problem is that time and work that spec editing demands. Quite honestly, for DITA 2.0 it could eat up 30-50 hours a week, which I just canât afford to give. What I can afford to give is maybe four hours a week. I told Robert earlier today that Iâd estimate that this will push out releasing DITA 2.0 another five years (assuming the same levels of involvement from Robert and other TC members) â

 

I think that itâs time that we have to think clearly about the problems the TC faces, brainstorm possible solutions (even if they seem crazy), and what work would be involved to get moving on implementing some of those solutions.

 

Best,

Kris

 

 

âChair workâ:

• Putting together the agenda for the weekly call (1 â 2 hours)
• Facilitating the weekly call (1 hour)
• Post-call admin work (0.50 hours)
• Communication with OASIS
• Keeping track of our tools and resources: GitHub repos, Wiki pages, document repository, GitHub projects, DITAweb
• Providing information about the TC, recruitment of potential new members (Iâve spent about 6 hours so far this week â)

 

 

From: dita@lists.oasis-open.org <dita@lists.oasis-open.org> On Behalf Of Jim Tivy
Sent: Thursday, June 2, 2022 1:32 PM
To: dita@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [dita] Chair Honorarium

 

Hi Folks

Want to make a couple comments here regarding the subject of TC sustainability.

In volunteer organizations I have been part of it has been necessary to provide an honorarium to at least the chair.

This is because the chair has to:

• organize meetings
• keep the matters of business in their head
• organize other meetings
• do the actual work like reviewing (or at least administer it)
• other things - add here to list...

I think these are significant tasks to differentiate the chair from all the other people working so hard to make this TC happen - you know who you are.

So to sustain the working group it might take a mix of chair honorarium plus the already committed individuals from Oasis members and a rallying of the community that gets so much from DITA.

In order to institute the honorarium we would need a simple entity or foundation to administer funds.  Those details can be determined if we consider it a good idea.

What do you folks think?

cheers

Jim