I think that Sven has a point that we don't want to put the cart before the
horse, but the reasoning behind Kevin's proposal has some merit. I don't
think we should a elect a "Board" as such, when there is no real entity to
govern or process by which to be elected yet.
However, it makes a lot of sense to have a self-selected core advisory
group or steering committee. I would recommend that at the meeting you come
up with some tasks that advisory group members might commit to (like "meet
once a month for an IRC/in-person strategy session and report back on
progress to the mailing list" or something) and then allow people volunteer
to join. The purpose of the group would simply be to maintain the forward
momentum from the meeting, and continue to hash out the challenges Sven
mentions ("...decide where we want to go as an organization, then we build
a policy framework").
It's easier to do the cat-herding required to create a chapter if a core
group has already worked on articulating a sensible vision that can be
discussed, rather than expecting a larger, leaderless group to create that
from scratch successfully.
Dominic
On 15 July 2013 17:50, Kevin Rutherford <Ktr101(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
The thing is, we need organization, as that is what
the user group has
indicated. At the rate we’re going, we cannot wait another year to figure
out who is going to do what, and if we have a basic structure, we’re better
off than if we had none at all. I left the elections to the end so that we
could ensure that we had a framework down before we elected anyone else. We
cannot afford to just be a name any longer, and if we have the support, I
see no reason why we can’t elect people to formal positions so that we can
look like we’re serious to the Affiliations Committee.
Kevin
*From:* Sven Manguard <svenmanguard(a)gmail.com>
*Sent:* Monday, July 15, 2013 5:25 PM
*To:* Kevin Rutherford <Ktr101(a)hotmail.com>
*Cc:* wikimedia-boston(a)lists.wikimedia.org
*Subject:* Re: [Wikimedia-boston] Ideas for agenda for Saturday
Elect board? This is way too soon for that. First we decide where we want
to go as an organization, then we build a policy framework around that, and
finally when both of those things are done, then we can elect a board.
The meeting on Saturday will be an excellent platform for resolving the
question of where we want to go as an organization, and from there we can
probably build a set of Google Docs and flush out some framework documents.
Hopefully that will be done by the end of the summer and we can hold some
sort of event once the non-local based students are back in, to ratify the
framework and elect a board.
S
On Jul 15, 2013 5:18 PM, "Kevin Rutherford" <Ktr101(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Hey everyone,
I’ve gone ahead and created a preliminary agenda here, so feel free to
add to it:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_New_England/20_July_2…
you on Saturday!
Kevin
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