On 21 October 2012 19:30, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think the WMF's advisory board has been particularly successful or effective, so I would advise against basing WMUK's on it to too great an extent. Sitting on the WMF's advisory board is more of a sinecure than anything. If WMUK is going to have an advisory board, we need to ensure we avoid that.
The main thing an organisation needs an advisory board for is to advise. This means people from the organisation need to actually ask them stuff. Typically, that's the bit that doesn't happen much.
If when people ask for an "advisory board" they mean a group to police the board and organisation, that's a completely different beast and I'm not sure what the proper name for it is.
- d.