[Foundation-l] New Wikimedia Committees

[Angela]

As you may have seen from
<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolutions>, the Board has
approved the creation of a number of new committees: Financial,
Technical, Executive, Events, Communications, Special projects, Board
expansion committee, and Chapters.

The pages linked from the resolutions page gives some very brief
details about these, and so far there has been no public discussion of
them.

I would like to open up discussion of the Executive Committee since
internally, opinions are very divided on how this committee should be
set up, and I think some additional views might be useful. The two
lines of thought are:

1) small committee: the committee should be made up of between 2 and 4
existing Board
members only
2) large committee: the committee should include the current Board as
well as representatives from other committees and people outside the
other committees.

Does anyone have experience or knowledge of how Executive Committees
in other non-profit organizations are organized? Is there any benefit
of one approach over the other?

Ideas are also welcome on how the Executive Committee should fit in
with the other committees, and whether additional committees are
needed.

Angela.