Nathan Awrich wrote:
In the interests of not letting this thread die:
I'd suggest that Wikimedia look at similar (as close as possible)
foundations in the United States, and possibly elsewhere as well, for
ideas on how to move forward.
Actually, we already did that to a certain extent. Mike drafted us a
fairly long document on the topic last summer.
There is no reason to reinvent the wheel
when you have a design that works - Wikimedia adopted
a fairly
conventional structure for its board, and it should continue to rely
on governance concepts that have been proven. Organizations like
Mozilla, EPIC, EFF, the ACLU and others might be targets not only for
adapting their governance style but also for attracting outside
members of the Wikimedia Board of Trustees. Additionally, you could
investigate recruiting Board members from academic and encyclopedic
organizations with similar missions.
Some previous board members were very insistant that we should primarily
recruit from the community.
A sensible structure has to be one that values
expertise and maintains
the centrality of the Wikimedia community, as well as represents the
interests of chapters outside en.wiki. I think you could achieve this
simply by expanding the board and assigning decision making authority
to different committees - i.e. audit, governance, executive,
financial.
Agreed. Recent development lead the board to consider expanding itself
This is currently under discussion.
Note that we already have a beginning of committee structures, with the
audit com, the ED com, etc...
(I am a bit perplex to see you refer to "chapters outside en.wiki, but I
take it as a typo type of thing).
ant
I think this is a fairly standard Board design, and I'd be
interested to see proposals from Mike Godwin on this
topic (assuming
he has experience in the field of non-profit management aside from
Wikimedia).
Nathan
On Dec 17, 2007 10:54 AM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 17/12/2007, Lars Aronsson
<lars(a)aronsson.se> wrote:
How is that Wikipedia movie going, by the way?
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Main_Page_%28movie%29
- d.
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