MadFish wrote:
... it is also true that a lot of the planning wasn't done in the open where the community could discuss it, and with hindsight, and maybe it should have been.

MadFish wrote:
Opening a discussion will be a good way to inform the community, give people a bit of ownership in the process, maybe refine a few ideas, and make best use of the existing work.

BS said
Also we should not hear opinions from the Moderator that does not relate to the issue of Moderating at hand.

davidl2 wrote:

The moderators do not need a leader - they work together as a team.

but in complement a Carnuke, remember it please.

3) OSS should be completely modular, decentralized to the extreme. No central entity should make decisions for others. Devs decide about the code, writers about the documentation, moderators about the forum, people managing the extensions repository about how it can be enhanced, and so on... this is a key element. As it has been said, XOOPS is already too big to be centrally managed, and I hope it will become "even worse".

3 For those who don't have interest to be a team member but know it is wrong when something is not done in the right way, please join the team so that when you see something is wrong you stand up and speak to the corresponding team - "You are doing the wrong way, you should do in such a way that ..."