Effe, if the purpose of this initial group is only to issue a report on the
need and viability and potential structure of a future group, why not just
have it be called a steering committee of some sort, organize the people you
think are helpful and interested, and issue a report with your names on it
after talking to other people and forming up some more fully fleshed out
ideas? Why go through the agita of a proposal and a debate and all the rest,
when what you really seem to want is to get a group of people together to
hash out what they want to propose - and then start the debate?
Nathan
On 3/17/08, effe iets anders <effeietsanders(a)gmail.com> wrote:
as I said, there might be no need, even by your definition. It all depends
on the report and whether accepted by the board. So please do not act
hastely here and do not try to get everything done at once. Rome isn't
biult
on one day either.
2008/3/17, Milos Rancic <millosh(a)gmail.com>om>:
On 3/17/08, effe iets anders <effeietsanders(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> If you have a seperate body in place, such as the VC, there might be
no
need
> for such requirement, as there would be another way to control the
> foundtaion more directly. We should not put these requirements in
just
to
> put them in, but only if they are useful. Therefore, I think it is
best
to
> await the developments on the VC side. There seems to be no hurry
with
regards
to the number of volunteers anyway?
Community control over WMF bodies is necessary whatever is number of
those bodies. If someone made bad decisions, they should be
responsible at the next elections. This is an extremely simple
principle of representative democracy. However, this is not
implemented coherently in the bylaws.
And this may be implemented in (at least) three ways: (1) To give the
right to the elected members to appoint and remove expert members, (2)
to limit powers and proportion of the appointed members or (3) to move
all expertize out of the Board, to payed professionals (I prefer this
option).
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