The idea of providing some staff support for the committee's work has been discussed with AffCom, but with no conclusion so far.  It is therefore too soon for WMF to announce or allocate any such resources.

However, it does not seem to me that staff support would address the primary difficulty for the committee to respond in a more timely manner.  That would have to do with the generally low participation by most of its members, an issue to be addressed by the committee itself (or the board), and to be partly ameliorated, no doubt, by the upcoming addition of new members.

As you noted, the AffCom work is pretty thankless, and very few community members take an interest in the committee's work, even from the outside, and this is to its detriment.  Even you, as a volunteer with exceptionally broad interests in governance and movement topics, only took an active interest when your own group needed AffCom's approval.

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