On Sat, 3 Jun 2006, Gavin Chait wrote:
equivalent to not appointing an *interim* CEO / COO / Director. The core problem: "We don't know what to do next and we need help deciding what to do," won't have been solved and can't be solved until the board and community decide.
Right. Discussions about goals and priorities, and group introspection on the past and present, need to happen. Nothing will substitute for that.
fund-raised, written proposals, developed ideas and implemented them. Some of my ideas even work.
I'm probably not the only person with this sort of experience on this list but I do have some idea of what it takes to run a self-sustaining non-profit social benefit organisation.
I like the ideas and examples you've shared, though some may be less relevant to WMF than to other s-s n-p sbo's ... Wikipedia is an unusually self-defining, scaled, and vibrant project, and traditional rules of thumb each deserve a second look to see how they might apply.
IIRC, there are a number of people with relevant experience on this list. I hope many more of them will chime in.
SJ