Members,
As many of you may remember, I made a suggestion at the AGM to bring into existence an advisory board/commitee of experts to support Wikimedia UK in its growth. I feel that this is apllicable even with the larger baord. Although the necessity for such a thing may not be right now, it is worth discussing. Most organisations have such a board, especially those which are volunteer driven. I wrote this on the train, so I don’t have any specific url examples for you to see but they aren’t difficult to find.
What thoughts or comments do you have on this? Method of appointing people? Etc etc
The floor is yours
Joseph Seddon
Events and Conferences, Director Wikimedia UK
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2009/5/1 joseph seddon life_is_bitter_sweet@hotmail.co.uk:
Members,
As many of you may remember, I made a suggestion at the AGM to bring into existence an advisory board/commitee of experts to support Wikimedia UK in its growth. I feel that this is apllicable even with the larger baord. Although the necessity for such a thing may not be right now, it is worth discussing. Most organisations have such a board, especially those which are volunteer driven. I wrote this on the train, so I don’t have any specific url examples for you to see but they aren’t difficult to find.
What thoughts or comments do you have on this? Method of appointing people? Etc etc
The floor is yours
I would suggest a nominations committee be formed to suggest people to the board (people not on the committee could send suggestions to the committee). The committee would gather some names, work out who would be useful, find out if they were interested and then the board would pretty much just rubber stamp it. I would suggest a committee of 4 people, with a mixture of board and non-board people.
I'd suggest two people for starters: David Gerard, given his experience with the press in the UK and Alison Wheeler, given her experience as Chair of WM-UK v1.
Andrew
On May 1, 11:26 pm, joseph seddon life_is_bitter_sw...@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
Members,
As many of you may remember, I made a suggestion at the AGM to bring into existence an advisory board/commitee of experts to support Wikimedia UK in its growth. I feel that this is apllicable even with the larger baord. Although the necessity for such a thing may not be right now, it is worth discussing. Most organisations have such a board, especially those which are volunteer driven. I wrote this on the train, so I don’t have any specific url examples for you to see but they aren’t difficult to find.
What thoughts or comments do you have on this? Method of appointing people? Etc etc
The floor is yours
Joseph Seddon
Events and Conferences, Director Wikimedia UK
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andrewrturvey@googlemail.com wrote:
I'd suggest two people for starters: David Gerard, given his experience with the press in the UK and Alison Wheeler, given her experience as Chair of WM-UK v1.
*Look at self* Um, missing somebody? :P
More seriously, before talk begin on who should be on it, or how to appoint people to it, you really need to define or at least have an idea on what you want this group of people to do.
KTC
2009/5/3 Kwan Ting Chan ktc@ktchan.info:
andrewrturvey@googlemail.com wrote:
I'd suggest two people for starters: David Gerard, given his experience with the press in the UK and Alison Wheeler, given her experience as Chair of WM-UK v1.
*Look at self* Um, missing somebody? :P
More seriously, before talk begin on who should be on it, or how to appoint people to it, you really need to define or at least have an idea on what you want this group of people to do.
I agree. It is too soon to be mentioning names.
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