I would like to act more
as a chair than simply a co-ordinator, and I use this term because I
refer specifically to other successful committees around Wikimedia:
enwiki's Mediation Committee works very well with a chair and tight
team and I think we could create a similar environment. However, I
need to know that you're all okay with me trying to be more proactive
before I do anything :)

I think that Cary is right in that we need to formulate a decent
mission statement or some form of structure that we can cycle through
to get projects etc. completed. However, I think that before we work
on that we first need to sort out a better method of communicating. As
some of you know I'm a freenode staff member and we have all observed
on multiple occasions that IRC isn't good enough on its own (despite
the fact we're trying to run an IRC network) and must be complemented
by other means. So, my proposition is that e-mail is used as a
constructive discussion environment and then if certain people working
on specific projects want to have an IRC session, they can then do so.
I would argue that the current weekly meeting idea isn't working well
enough. We could still have it, but I would like to make it of less
importance. I know that Sandy wasn't keen on the idea of using the
list in this way, but I would argue we need to change until she gets
back, and then re-evaluate things.