[Wikimediaau-l] chapter governance

[Adam Karpathakis]

Hello,

Shouldn't this be on the members list? When I go onto Google I can search this list..... It's not hard, and it may not be desirable either.

When the chapter adopts a position it takes responsibility (Legal, ethical, whatever) for that position. The chapter is a legal entity which is separate from the people in it, so would not normally take a position. The best model for this is to have a central place which decides and can consider the implications, something members may not be well placed to do individually although they can of course offer their ideas and thoughts. For example the government of the day is making this proposition, but we also have to deal with and negotiate with the government of the day on other issues and "joining the revolution" may endanger projects which are steaming along, I am not saying that is the case but just giving an example. I for one as a member trust the committee we have elected to make those decisions. 

As I understand it but correct me if I'm wrong, any member can go out into the public arena and advocate for his or her opinion and make submissions and be active (I know I certainly plan to!) but that is "Adam" or "Privatemusings" it is not "Wikimedia Australia" and what we say does not reflect on it, what it says doesn't reflect on us either.

best (and merry Christmas), Adam


Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:25:26 +1100
From: thepmaccount at gmail.com
To: wikimediaau-l at lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikimediaau-l] chapter governance

G'day all,see http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Billabong#chapter_governance
I saw a post on the UK mailing list ( http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediauk-l/2009-December/005004.html ), and I sort of felt that it raised some questions in relation to how we do things down here - I also recently asked on the WMAU wiki about how an 'official chapter position' might be formed (on the ISP filtering stuff), and andrew responded that the official chapter position would be determined by the committee... obviously some sort of structured discussion space (or the more open behaviours of the UK committee?) would offer greater transparency, and I see them as quite desirable - what do you think?


Also - merry christmas to everyone, I'm sort of throwing this rock in the pond and running, 'cos I'll be off-wiki until the new year now, so season's greetings and festive merriness and all that to one and all, and maybe see you for Wikipedia Day in January :-)


cheers,Peter,PM. 		 	   		  
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