This group has no power over the board! We should use the best experts we have to develop
community governance, those who are familiar with the community.
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From: Dan Rosenthal <swatjester(a)gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 2, 2008 1:38:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Provisional Volunteer Council - proposal
Really? We don't? Yet we cry out for them when we want professionals
on the board of trustees. A group theoretically with power over the
board should not be carefully formed with expert advice? Perhaps the
professionals are telling you how to create a community organization
because that's what they have experience in and they know the legal,
structural, and personal difficulties in developing such a group, that
you don't. But what do they know, we know better, right? We don't need
them to tell us what to do, right?
-Dan
On Apr 2, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Geoffrey Plourde wrote:
Yes, we do not need the same old
"professionals" telling us how to
create a community org.
----- Original Message ----
From: Durova <nadezhda.durova(a)gmail.com>
To: foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Wednesday, April 2, 2008 12:26:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Provisional Volunteer Council - proposal
Now, if I'm wrong and some of the PVC members have experience in
non-profit governance and incorporation, please allow them to step
forward and inform us. Up until now, I see _no_ qualifications other
than being a suck up.
-Chad
I am a former board member of the Columbia University Alumni
Association of
Southern California. Another Wikimedian proposed my name and I
wasn't aware
it was under consideration until Effe contacted me to see whether
I'd be
interested.
I don't know whether "assume good faith" applies to this list
formally, but
it would be a good idea to follow it.
-Durova
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