On Nov 11, 2007 3:08 PM, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/11/07, josef huber
<josef.s.huber(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Chapters Committee,
I looked a little on the chapters commitee page (like
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_committee/News) and found that you
are already 5 people and 2 advisors. Adding another 3 people would make it
8.
Altough it says on that page that they wanted to keep a smaller-sized
group, obviously the feel they now need to increase the size.
You are right, this must be a little bit outdated. Looking at the chapter page histories
like:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_chapters&action=h…
reveals notice that chapters people themselves prepare the contents.
But I had
difficulties to figure out what you really do.
From the job description I can figure out the task would be "read boring
bylaw documents", and "learn about different legal systems" ... which is
a
more educational thing than doing real work i guess.
From my experiences working wth the chapters committee, it's not
really educational work. They review the prospective bylaws of a
local chapter and approve the chapter before it goes to the Foundatuon
for the final approval. The ChapCom needs to read up on the
countries' loca laws and legal systems to make surw the bylaws work
and other items.
How did you work with the chapters committee, and is there a trace of that somewhere?
Googling for "Wikimedia Foundation Chapter Bylaw" brings up
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_committee/Resolutions/Approval_of_W…
where you can judge that they need to read approximately 10 lines, the ones which concern
the relationship with the foundation.
> From the URLs you provided one could make out
that "write boring and
> unnecessary complicated rules and processes" would be also a task.
What do you mean here? In the legal world, everything
ChapCom does is
very necessary and not entirely complicated. Any complications that
you speak of are most likely necessar and not deliberate by the
committee.
On the website there is a lot of complicated things for becoming and running a chapter.
Could you shed
some light on what the Chapters Committee can bring to this
world please?
...'can' bring to this world? The Committee already exists and does a
pretty good job. This e-mail was just about expanding the cmmittee's
membership.
How do you judge if it does a pretty good job, and how could I judge?
The only really public action I am aware of was that the chapter committees chair was
blamed to be wikimedia foundations most expensive employee. But I can unfortunately not
remember any more if it was 100.000 US$ per year, including travel cost and 300 US$ child
care per day for her boy friend, not including contributions from the various chapters?
If that amount is approximately correct one could ask if this is really worth the money -
even more as one does not notice, from outside, that they are doing any work. A pity they
do not even bother to explain it a little bit.
Joe.