--- Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:
Let's say that the finance committee has a subcommittee on fundraising strategies (this might well be located elsewhere, but humor me). Such a subcommittee would have to come up with innovative strategies -- social, technical -- to maximize the return from our next fundraising drive. Having a dedicated subcommittee for this purpose can help to make sure that people stay on the ball, have regular meetings, publish their progress, and so forth. It's also exactly an area where we want to be fairly open about participation.
Not sure that fundraising is the best example since almost everything it does, even the draft stuff, will be on meta. Thus hardly anybody involved in that subcommittee would not need access to either the internal list or wiki.
Hence my distinction between core committees and subcommittees. Core committee members should have complete access to all confidential information on the internal wiki and internal-l. Subcommittee members could have their own private communications channels or, as we agreed, ideally have separate spaces on the internal wiki without having access to everything else there.
I'm not sure a distinction between a core committee and other committee members makes much sense in practice. Accounting and budgeting, for example, will be subcommittees to the finance committee. All members of those two subcommittees will need access to InternalWiki since that is where draft reports and budgets will be created. Yet almost everybody in the fundraising subcommittee need only have access to meta.
Access to the internal wiki and list would be controlled by the board. Being a member of any committee or subcommittee would not automatically give them access to those things. That can be needs based. But a prerequisite to be considered for having that access should be committee membership, an affirmative super-majority vote by the committee for each candidate, and then ratification by the board.
-- mav
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