On 6/9/06, Kelly Martin kelly.lynn.martin@gmail.com wrote: [snip]
Once the Wikimedia Board starts acting like a nonprofit board, cuts its meeting frequency to a more reasonable 3 to 6 meetings a year, and decides to delegate authority to an appropriate cast of professional and volunteer administrators (instead of trying to run the entire organization itself), then I would be interested. However, I simply don't have the time to participate in the micromanaging disaster that is the current Board of Directors; the way they're trying to run it is is a full-time job and I can't afford to give up my current full-time job for a position that doesn't pay anything.
I usually hate me too, but Kelly really hit the mark with her comment here. It is unreasonable to expect any board to undertake the daily operation of the organization and the perceived need to select people suitable for daily chores will just end up compelling us to select people who are unsuitable for driving our long term mission.
We are not the only charitable organization in the world, yet we seem to know so little of what has been earned by others. ... But what else should we expect from a group with tens of thousands of participants which still has substantial difficulty getting 40 man hours a week applied to resolving problems which are bringing us into disrepute in international news. To get something as simple as libel patrolling going we need to be slammed on three news networks, have unilateral staff action which is met with widespread whining, and we must receive a personal appeal from god^WJimbo... and still we still do a fairly weak job.