Anthere wrote:
Hello everyone,
There has been a bit of discussion recently about Non Profit
Foundations and their organisation. Michael Davis has been discussing
a lot in the past few days with a lawyer we are working with, and
amongst various conclusions, it was recommanded that we try to
anticipate the best we could our growth curve and to get a strong
legal framework in place asap. Which seems to involve good functioning
structure... and sticking a bit more to traditional board governance
procedures, with some evolution in the way we handle agendas, minutes,
bylaws, resolution, board manual, insurance and so on.
It's hard to know when an exponential growth curve will level off. Thus
far we all stand in amazement at the growth. Generally this is a step
in the right direction.
We are currently working on all this very much.
Each according to its
own ability.
Some of this can only be done by board members proper, other tasks can
also be supported by officers, and some can involve anyone who is
serious and supportive.
Amongst the tasks I will try to take care of in the next few weeks (or
months...) is documentation, such as typically board manual. Michael
has provided us with some documentation (such as
http://www.boardsource.org/FullAnswer.asp?ID=98) and I gathered some
more as well. Most of what is typically required on a board manual, we
already have, but it is dispersed on at least 3 different wikis and
poorly organised. This is unfortunate.
I would suggest beginning with a Table of Contents or site map for the
Manual. This would be helpful in monitoring the development of this
project.
Board governance is not something new and there
is no reason for us to
reinvent the wheel. When I looked at some of these pages, I recognised
areas where we have indeed tried to reinvent the wheel... other areas
we have never explored at all, areas where we found our own balance
and areas which are still a mess :-)
I invite you to join and help the way you can if you have such a
desire. Either help to organise the structure of the future document
(and more generally Foundation website), help to gather what already
exist, help write what does *not* exist, help fix poor english, help
translate (much later) some of the pages.
If you are interested, please, let's talk about this on meta or by
irc. I presume this will be very boring for most editors here, so it
will probably rarely be mentionned on the list, but if you wish to
help, please jump in any time.
I object to your saying that such a task would be boring. ;-) Where
on meta?
Ec
hello,
Considering the amount of ink spilled on topics such as new languages,
or new page creation by anons, or the deletion of a joke book...
Ach, chatting (sorry, trolling ?) has never been boring :-)
I'll start working on this next week probably. And yes, first on meta.
I'll post a link.
Ant