Jyotis,
(This is my personal view.)
I concur with the broad idea behind points 3-7 though specifics need to be
worked out to suit the legal entity that the chapter is.
In fact, some of these have been addressed in the MoA, I think.
However, what is the additional role that you envisage for the administrative
council given that a general body of members exists?
Also, I suggest that a separate page be opened in wikimedia.in wiki to discuss
this.
- Sundar
>Some thoughts around this:
> 1. Local Representation:All local wikis should elect a respected member of
>their community for a period of a year (or two) and form an administrative
>council for the chapter. This could be per language basis or per project basis,
>based on their community size. I would not exclude English, but would limit the
>participation to one member in council. for the rest of projects - It could be
>probably like for every project that has more than 50 (this is just a number, we
>
>can look at the real world situations) active people (not including bots) - we
>can allocate one member per project to the council. other wise, one member per
>language projects would be enuf. this is just to ensure that we have enuf
>coverage per project and per language depending on the size of people.
> 2. Formation of EC: From the administrative council, the EC can be elected
>in
>
>for a term. This election should be by the chapter members / local language
>wikimedians.
> 3. Limit on Term in EC: It may also be worth enforcing that no project gets
>more than one (or at the most 2) consecutive term in EC (if we have enuf
>representations to fill in all slots). This will ensure that all projects gets
>it share of EC terms over the years.
> 4. Communication: A Monthly or quarterly report of the chapter activities
>should be published by the EC and admin council. Individual representatives are
>
>and should be responsible for communication between chapter and projects. Should
>
>there be a reason to replace the member by the local community, such a provision
>
>should be provided.
> 5. Removal of member: Inactivity and lose of trust by the general public
>should
>
>be considered as a reason for removal as usual. On the other hand, if the rest
>of the administrative council members feels against one member, chapter should
>be able to request for replacement citing proper reasons for it.
> 6. Funds and Grants: All funds and grants from chapter account probably can
>be
>
>openly discussed and approved on the foundation wiki or meta wiki (like the
>foundation grant process)
> 7. Audit and Annual report: End of every financial year, an audit committee
>for
>
>the financial and functional aspects of the chapter's actions should be formed
>from the administrative council and audit results should be made public along
>with the annual reports.
>We can go on like this, but I would leave it open to further discussions.
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