On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Abhinav Srivastava
<abhinav.srivastava@wikimedia.in> wrote:

> Thanks for raising out the concern. Yes, the Wikimedia India's prime
> objective is to seek individuals with individual expertise. Wikimedia India
> is a growing organisation, hence, the individuals at the advisory council
> could provide the precise guidance on how to step under bigger institutional
> framework.
>

That was not the concern raised. The (proposed?) composition of the
advisory board seems to be skewed in favor of individuals who have
been somewhat intimately associated with the Chapter. This in turn is
orthogonal to the stated approach of having a diverse set of
specialized inputs.

[The snippet from the original post is kept intact below to highlight
the specific concern raised]

> On 23 March 2016 at 13:13, sankarshan <foss.mailinglists@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Abhinav Srivastava
>> <abhinav.srivastava@wikimedia.in> wrote:
>> > Advisory council would be a panel of experts with different expertise
>> > and
>> > connections with whom WE the chapter could rely on to get specific
>> > advice.
>> > However, They are not a "committee" in the usual sense to discuss all
>> > issues
>> > together and provide consensus.
>>
>> From the document:
>>
>> "The advisory board would not have any fixed size , but it is prefered
>> that it consist of 4-8 members.One member
>> would be an individual having an international experience in working
>> with the Wikimedia organisation. The next
>> group of these members would be individuals who were the founding
>> members of the Chapter. The last group of
>> members would be individuals having experience across four different
>> fields such as legal, information
>> technology, government regulation, administrative experience, etc."
>>
>> The (proposed?) composition seems peculiarly skewed towards
>> individuals with institutional memory.
>>
>> --
>> sankarshan mukhopadhyay
>> <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan>
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