David Faught <dave_faught at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >We have identified 3 basic duties of the Guides:
> >
> >1. The Guides make sure that decisions are made when
> >the community needs to make them. This doesn't mean
> >that we make the actual decisions - they are as
> >always mostly taken informally on the mailinglists),
> >but the Guides should listen carefully, participate
> >and act a bit like a "chairman" in a meeting making
> >sure that decisions are made in the end and that
> >they are recorded somewhere.
> 
> This is picky, but we (where I work) would use the
> term "facilitator" or "moderator" instead of
> "chairman".  The function is as you describe it, but
> it has less of an authoritative ring to it, and still
> has the idea of loosely guiding a meeting and making
> sure that important points are recorded and published.

That is what I meant. But I will not change it now I think. :-)

> As for the Guide group name, I'm surprised that no one
> has suggested the "Pipers" or some other reference to
> the Pied Piper of Hamelin leading the mice ..., oops
> they were rats weren't they?.  The Pipers also
> suggests something that things are funneled through.

I thought of that but didn't he drown all those rats? ;-)

regards, Göran