From: Matthew Moss <matt@...>
Date: 2009-01-15T23:40:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Quizmaster Retiring: Revenge of the Sith


On Jan 15, 2009, at 4:49 AM, Ron Fox wrote:

> How about a 'quiz' group with a group leader rather than a single  
> quizmaster.  Suppose there are n people in the group.  Each person  
> then is responsible for at least a quiz every n weeks (if you want  
> to continue weekly).   The group leader maintains any pool of  
> additional quizzes that come in for lean weeks where a quiz might be  
> missing, and determines which quiz from the group gets shoved out  
> each week.. or even go to monthly quizzes?
>
> Seems a more sustainable/scalable approach.


My personal experience with groups on the Internet is that they  
generally don't work for a situation such as this. It takes a certain  
amount of hard work and dedication to keep things going; the usual  
result is one or two people doing most of the work anyway, but also  
spending time badgering or attempting to motivate the others with  
little success. It is often difficult enough to find one dedicated  
person... but finding a group of them?

That said, I am certainly not against a group of people contributing  
to Ruby Quiz, but really... as I will not be running it anymore, that  
would be left to the quizmaster (i.e. "group leader") who follows me.  
If he can find a group of N people who each regularly contribute a  
quiz every N-th week, more power to him and them. But you still need  
someone -- a group leader, as you say -- to manage the whole.

Likewise, it may be an easier task to do quizzes only monthly, or  
every other week. I certainly have skipped weeks when I was behind  
schedule or overburdened. Again, that's a detail that my successor(s)  
can set either as the rule or the exception.